We have all gone through this, believing that giving up is the best decision for us. Unfortunately, that is further from the truth because giving up is the easy choice.

Staying motivated is the hardest thing you will do especially after you fail, but you have to keep motivated. You have no idea what you are missing on once you give up. Success could be right around the corner.

Giving up is so alluring

We have all been there, tasted the juices of failure and relished in giving up. With a shrug and an aching heart, we step back and we always have a reason for not doing something. The reasons are always plausible and often people agree with us that it’s the best solution, but why do we actually give up.

The first month in the new year is always the most productive, because we start with our goals and by the end of the month, we realize that it’s not for us. Our reasons at the time make sense, but regret always swings a bat at us when we get older, so why do we give up.

• Thinking the outcome is more important than the journey – We all make this mistake, we think the end-result is more important than the journey. That’s further from the truth, it’s great to win the race, but the journey is more important. Think about it, what did you enjoy more, the journey or the end-result. Winning isn’t as important as how you got to where you are at this moment.
• Letting your failure control your life –Don’t ever let failure control your life, it will cause more harm than you believe. Take your time when it comes to letting go of failure. I get it, it’s painful, heart-wrenching. Yeah, I know too graphic, but failing feels as if you’re the biggest joke ever to walk on the side of the road. You get it right, but letting failure control your life is the worst thing you can do to yourself. Don’t live in that mentality.
• Lack of discipline– This one is of course a bummer, yeah discipline, without it you might as well be peeling potatoes, though back in the days peeling potatoes was for people who wouldn’t amount to anything. No, your life is far more important than wasting time peeling potatoes. Discipline is something you have to work at so you must do it on a daily basis. Will it suck, of course. I had a teacher who used to scream at the students for not doing any work before the school bell rang. Even now I can imagine her telling the students to do something constructive. What I am telling you is discipline requires work.

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Success is right around the corner

Before, you can stay motivated, you have to understand that success is right around the corner. It is easy to not believe that, but what people have about success is wrong. There’s no such thing as instant success, despite people believing that you can wake up one day and become successful. It can take a while, but maybe not as long as you think it might.

Instant success is a myth, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be successful if you put in the work or the effort. That’s the thing with success, you get whatever work you put in and if you don’t put effort then you won’t become successful.

You will always wonder what if

You will always wonder what if when you give up. It’s a natural response and the worst thing is regret. That can cause unnecessary grief and pain on your journey. There’ll always be a part of you that feels as if you can do more and that you allowed your failures to stop you.

The problem with regret is it never goes away, it will always be there. Your future self, will waste time thinking about what could have happened if you didn’t choose the easy way. Once regret hits you will spend so much of time thinking about it that every decision after that will push you back further.

Struggle doesn’t equate to failure

Struggle is nothing to be ashamed of, people will lead you to believe that hard times make you weaker, but that isn’t the truth. You are who you are because of the struggles you went through.

There will always be hard times, you can’t run away from that and you shouldn’t. Hard times builds character, it pushes you forward if you let it and it makes you stronger. We all have a story of our struggles, successful people have enough of those stories to have a whole wall dedicated to it, but those stories defined them.

Who would you be if you didn’t fall when you tried to walk as a baby? What if you never struggled in class, sports, making friends and everything just came easy to you? We all have to struggle at something so that we can grow, it’s part of life and it becomes easier to accept once we realize struggle and failure are two different things.

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You will always surrender to defeat

We all go through challenges and how we overcome them defines us. Giving up can appear as if it’s the only solution that works, but take it from me it does more damage. When you allow yourself to give in before even trying that becomes your mantra for everything you do.

What follows after is a willingness to surrender to defeat. I know how hard it can be to try to chase away the thoughts of failure. It’s as if your swatting away flies, but it sticks to you like glue. The best way to not let that define you is to not give up. I know it sounds easy, but it isn’t that simple. You will constantly beat yourself up about it, but it’s important to know you can’t give up on yourself. You have to work at it every day.

Adapt the wrong mentality

You don’t want this to become the mantra you live by and so you have to continue to fight it. If you give up, it becomes second nature to you so anything you try to do you will give up before you make it work. Don’t adapt the wrong mindset because you don’t want that to become your status quo.

Whenever you are battling a bad habit and or trying to accomplish your goals and you give up, you will always do that. I have been there, done that and I know that it’s hard to beat it. How successful you become ultimately depends on you because of your belief system. If you believe you are not going to win then you are right, the same goes for the person who believes they are capable of achieving success. This isn’t some flash card stuff, this works because what we achieve is reflected in how we see ourselves.

These are a few reasons why people give up, what are yours? I would love to know why you have given up in the past, write a comment below and I will respond as soon as possible.

                                                                                                 KEEP  PUSHING

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