I’m sure you’ve heard and possibly ingrained sentiments such as “Quitters never win and winners never quit,” or “There are no failures, only quitters.” Quitting has always gotten a bit of a bad rap in our achievement based culture. I’m sure you saw what happened to Simone Biles. The world turned on that poor woman because she said, “no.” But was she wrong for quitting? One of the things most of us miss is that there are two types of quitting and the knowing which is which can make all the difference.
Quitting because something is hard
If we quit something simply because it is hard, we have failed ourselves. Everything is hard to some extent. I’ll give you an example, say you love writing and you have a dream to write a novel one day, but it’s too hard to face your inner voices that tell you how you have nothing to say that anyone wants to hear. But putting off what your soul is guiding you is hard in another way. It’s a quiet hard that eats away at you.
Another example of this is, say you quit your meditation practice (ah..hem) because it’s hard to find twenty minutes twice a day to give to yourself. Sure, you may have freed up those forty minutes, but then life gets harder because you haven’t taken the time to unload your stress.
Hard just means there is action that needs taking. If your inner self is aligned with the…
