Are YOU Going to be a Quitter in 2010?

Entering the New Year, I want to share this remarkable article from my speaking coach, Teri Hawkins, National Speakers Club. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did, and that it inspires you to live a better life, to be more successful, and to receive the support you need and deserve so that you too Never Quit!

The top reason few achieve what they truly want in life is lack of focus, lack of concentrating personal power toward desire. Most of us dabble our way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular because we are too afraid that any one decision may indeed be the wrong decision. And so we wait. We wait for someone to come along and tell us the right thing, the right way, the right idea, the right decision. If someone would just make the choice for us then if we fail – well then it isn’t our fault. The wisest people in this world do not have an answer for why we lack focus – silly people have many answers – but the wise know that when we dabble in life we do so because we fear more than we desire.

One of the most damaging manifestations of the dabbler is quitting. Call it reasons, justifications, something you can’t help, something you wish you’d never started… Call it what you want, but if you make an agreement with yourself or others, if you agree to follow through, if you say you will and then you won’t – it is all quitting, no matter the justification.

My grandfather once got out of his bed with a fever that left him red faced, breathless and slow. He walked over to the neighboring farm and milked the cows as his neighbors were gone for a few days. He gave his word and he meant to keep it. He became sicker because of it. In a moment of frustration one of his children said, “Why did you get out of bed when you were so sick, you could have died with that fever?” My grandpa simply said, “I did it because I was focused on my word – not on my fever.”

As simplistic as that sounds it is true wisdom from one of the greatest fathers, grandfathers, friends, and human beings I have ever been blessed to love. My grandfather believed a man was his word. He believed the key to life was to focus on where his word lay upon the ears of others – not on the fears that will deafen our dreams.

Sun, age, dry skin, eating habits do indeed wrinkle the skin… but it is quitting that wrinkles the soul.

Make a decision, ride it out, stick to it. Do not quit. Excuses or not. If you want to succeed at business, make a decision and stick to it. Do not quit on your dream, your idea, your purpose, or your Self.

Make the mistakes, get knocked down but don’t look back for too long.

Mistakes are not failures, they are teaching experiences Life is providing for you. Oh, without a doubt you have a great capacity for blunders – but that ability is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. They are two sides to the same coin – both of equal value to success. If you desire success, freedom, prosperity, happiness, love… well then you cannot win them all.

Your “failures” are part of the growth needed to become the dream you desire. You will never learn who you are without failures.

The key is to never quit…. Never! Your time will come!

The top reason few achieve what they truly want in life is lack of focus, lack of concentrating personal power toward desire. Most of us dabble our way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular because we are too afraid that any one decision may indeed be the wrong decision. And so we wait. We wait for someone to come along and tell us the right thing, the right way, the right idea, the right decision. If someone would just make the choice for us then if we fail – well then it isn’t our fault. The wisest people in this world do not have an answer for why we lack focus – silly people have many answers – but the wise know that when we dabble in life we do so because we fear more than we desire.

One of the most damaging manifestations of the dabbler is quitting. Call it reasons, justifications, something you can’t help, something you wish you’d never started… Call it what you want, but if you make an agreement with yourself or others, if you agree to follow through, if you say you will and then you won’t – it is all quitting, no matter the justification.

As simplistic as that sounds it is true wisdom from one of the greatest fathers, grandfathers, friends, and human beings I have ever been blessed to love. My grandfather believed a man was his word. He believed the key to life was to focus on where his word lay upon the ears of others – not on the fears that will deafen our dreams.

Sun, age, dry skin, eating habits do indeed wrinkle the skin… but it is quitting that wrinkles the soul.

Make the mistakes, get knocked down but don’t look back for too long.

Your “failures” are part of the growth needed to become the dream you desire. You will never learn who you are without failures.

The key is to never quit…. Never! Your time will come!