There are days when you want to just quit.
When you feel weary.
The day seems dark and dull.
Your emotions weigh you down with the burdens of life.
You begin to wonder if all the effort is worth it.
Whether there will be something...
Anything...
To come from all of the effort.
Where even the thought of getting out of bed sounds like a challenge.
I know because I feel it too.
Here's the thing...
You can quit.
No one is going to force you to continue whatever path you are on.
There will be challenges ahead that you are unaware of.
They are going to slam you into the ground.
It will be painful, and there will be struggles.
Things will often fail to go your way.
You will lose.
Not just once...
Many...
Many times.
This may sound harsh.
There is a reason.
Any path you take in life will be harsh.
Some are harsh in one way...
Others in a different way...
But no matter what path you find yourself on...
It will be difficult.
But difficult does not inherently mean bad.
Life finds meaning and purpose not in ease and comfort...
But through trials and tribulations...
When we overcome the difficulties...
Striking back when life feels harsh.
Heroes are not made sitting in peace.
They arise during the most difficult of times...
Being recognized only after they want to quit...
But decide to continue forward anyway.
You may want to quit...
You may have perfectly reasonable reasons to quit...
Plus...
The truth is that most people will quit.
You are free to join them.
But do not imagine that by joining the masses, it will make your life better.
It will not.
If anything...
Joining the masses in deciding to quit leads to a significantly worse life.
One filled with regret...
The loss of so much more than people realize they are giving up.
You can quit...
But like most people...
You will come to regret it.
It will become the spectre that always haunts you...
Laughing when you are lying on your deathbed, unable to change your fate.
Quitting is an option...
But is it an option worth taking?
I can tell you that deciding to remain on the path will not make your life easier...
But neither will quitting.
Fear and pressure begin to dominate your life when you quit...
And when you begin...
You start to train your body to respond in that manner...
So the next time you have an opportunity...
You will likely quit again...
And again...
Until your mindset and wayset in life become so defeatist...
That you do not even consider attempting to pursue a different path.
You become a slave to your habit of quitting...
Chained by your decisions...
Unable to reach the beautiful potential that your life had.
You are allowed to quit.
But here is something to consider...
At every point where one can quit...
The majority will.
Each point becomes another place where more are lost.
If you were to start with 100,000 people...
At the first decision point, it would be likely that 80% will quit based on averages...
Leaving only 20,000 people.
At the next decision point...
4,000 people remain.
From there...
800 people.
Down to...
160...
32...
6...
1.
At around only 8 decision points on average...
There will only be you left...
If...
You decide not to quit...
Which, in reality, these decision points happen far more frequently than most people realize.
Let me give you an example from my life...
Daily writing.
I have watched over 100,000 people attempt to write articles daily.
Many say they will get started...
And even before their first article...
They change their minds and never start.
The first round of quitting.
Then you have people who fail to stay consistent and drop by day 3.
The second round of quitting.
From there, you have many who stay strong for a week...
Then fall into their old habits by the 7th day.
The third round of quitting.
Then we get to the halfway mark of a 30-day challenge...
And people fail to account for all the different aspects of their lives...
Biting off more than they could chew...
And they make a decision to retreat.
The fourth round of quitting.
From here, we get to the 30-day mark...
Usually the first major milestone of article writing...
And people are happy with the accomplishment...
But because they have not made it a habit...
They drop with that chip on their shoulder...
The fifth round of quitting.
This takes us to the second month...
Almost where a habit is officially established at 66 days on average...
And people begin to lose sight of the reason they were writing in the first place.
They started because of a challenge...
But that is not enough to keep them going.
The sixth round of quitting.
The next point is the 6-month mark...
Half a year...
And most people begin to question if the efforts are worth continuing.
They usually have a belief that writing daily would provide a specific result...
One which they fail to obtain yet...
And they begin to become disheartened.
In that emotional place...
They begin to lose what they were writing about...
Until they miss a day...
Then another...
And they do not want to continue to put in the effort anymore.
The seventh round of quitting.
Which brings us to the one-year mark...
A place where few people get to.
But this same mark presents itself exactly like the 30-day mark...
An exceptional milestone...
And the temptation to walk away here is even greater because of all the effort that has been put in up to this point...
And the fact that there are so few people who made it that far...
Many then begin to believe it is enough...
The eighth round of quitting.
In having now written for over 1,400 days of daily articles...
I have never seen 20 people simultaneously at 365 days of writing or more.
Currently, I know only 8...
5 of them, including me, have over 1,000 days under our belts as I write this...
And I am about 300 days ahead of the other 4.
When you decide to continue going...
Each time you make that decision...
Drastically fewer people will remain who also continue.
It has nothing to do with talent.
It has nothing to do with purpose or mindset.
It has only to do with the courage to make the decision to say...
I will not quit today.
Of course...
You will want to quit.
No one will stop you from quitting.
Most people will quit.
But each time you make a decision to quit...
You make life more difficult for yourself than you realize...
And...
Each time you decide to continue...
Especially at a major milestone...
You set yourself apart from so many others.
If we take the entire population of the world...
Let's round to 8.5 billion people...
On average...
You would only need to not quit 14 or 15 times in total at those major milestones...
To be the only person left standing who did not quit.
How many people quit at the first milestone?
Or the fifth?
The tenth?
How much closer were they than they realized?
You can quit...
But if you continue forth...
You may discover that you were so much closer than you realized.
Right now may be when you want to quit.
I know how it feels.
But will you?
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