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After three bad days, where nothing seems to be going right and the stress is overwhelming, I want to quit. I’m on a journey to better myself, physically, mentally, and finically. It’s the kind of journey a lot of us embark on at some point in our lives. The ruts that we find ourselves in become a place we feel too comfortable. We are too at home in our failures and depression and need a drastic change.
That was me two months ago. I have spent these past two months moving forward each day, little by little, clawing my way up out of the massive hole I had dug for myself.
But now, after backsliding some, I feel like giving up entirely.
Change is hard, time-consuming, and messy. It takes a large amount of consistency and strong willpower. Lacking both things is how we end up living a life we never intended.
When you commit to making a change in your life, it has to constantly be at the front of your mind, and even then it’s easy to take a step back purely out of habit. Falling or stumbling along the way in your journey is common, normal even, but it is also the point when most people give up.
If You Give Up Now
All of the time and energy put in so far will have been wasted. It will all have been for nothing. You might be as far along as you wanted to be by now, but that isn’t a reason to quit. Even a few steps in the right direction is progress.
If I gave up on my mission to become a better version of myself, I would have wasted sixty days and would end up exactly where I was when I started. That is a dark, place filled with turmoil that I don’t ever want to go back to.
Remember Why You Started
Close your eyes and put yourself back to where you were when you began. Do you remember how desperate you were for change? How you had finally had enough of the pain, sadness, anger, or frustration. Something finally pushed you out of your comfort zone and made you take the first step. Don’t forget that feeling. Don’t forget that you never want to feel that way again.