Don’t quit

 

 

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
– George Eliot

Do you feel like quitting?

Don’t.

Were you going to run every day, but you missed a day? Did you want to stop eating sugar, but you ate a cookie yesterday?

Did you say you were going to do something, and then you didn’t do it? And now you want to quit?

Do you want to sell your running shoes at your yardsale this weekend? Do you want to shove a dozen cookies in your face? Do you have negative voices in your head,

“You might as well just give up. Go ahead, eat that cookie. Who do you think you are? Just quit. You are not a runner.”

My plan this year was to write every day. I was going to write and publish a story every day on my blog,  but I missed a day. Then I missed another day, and another day, and another day.

Now there is today.

Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.
— Sir Winston Churchill

Push delete on the negative sound track. Seriously, push delete right now, and put in a new tape. Or upload a new file. Replay positive thoughts.

 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.
Philippians 4:8

“I will keep trying. I won’t quit. I can do this. I ran around the block today. I will not eat the cookie. Get behind me cookie!  I can do this.”

Control your mind and you control your life. ( Would you like to tweet that? Here is a link to tweet: tweet, tweet.)

Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Give yourself grace; pick yourself up and go for a run, don’t eat a cookie today,and write a story.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
― Elie Wiesel

Do you feel like quitting?

Don’t.

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As I was uploading the photograph for this story, my daughter Timber asked me, “Hey Mama, do you know how your story is about not quitting? You are sort of a hypocrite. You said to not quit, and you quit. You didn’t write this weekend.”

“But, I picked myself back up. Quitting is where you don’t start again.”

“Good point.”

You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.
– Babe Ruth

 

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
– Dale Carnegie