I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment for this week. Do we stick it out or is it time to quit? This topic is not something I ever thought I would say on this show, but I heard a quote this week that stops me in my tracks. The quote that I heard was successful people quit all the time. And that's the first bit. That's the bit that sort of rattled me, and I didn't necessarily agree
with because I'm very much on work ethic and perseverance. However, the second part of the quote was they just know what to quit and when, and so then I thought
about it. I thought, you know, you've got that friend in the toxic relationship that they can't see but everyone else around them can see, and they end up inevitably breaking up with that person, but everyone else thought that should have broken up three years ago, and that's three years of their life they're never going to get back, and it's a really hard conversation to have with someone.
Or the job. You know, you've got the friend in the job that they despise, and we get one life and they go into that job nine to five forty eight weeks a year and they hate it and it kills you to watch that person doing that. You know this might even be you. But in the fitness motivation world it's like, don't quit, keep going. But the reality is to have the most success, sometimes quitting or knowing when to quit or knowing what to quit, as I
said in the quote, are absolutely critical. Now the key here is you don't just stop and do nothing. You don't quit, give up, walk away. I had a crack a life, or I had a crack at that, and
I'm not going to do anything else. It's understanding when you are attempting to do something and you've reached the point after a certain amount of time where the results are aren't there that you thought would be there, or you've reached a platter, or in some cases you might even be going backwards, and even though there might have been initial success in a nice steep curve at the beginning, that has absolutely dissipated. And sometimes we can't see the
forest of the trees. I think I've got that quote right. If not, someone will correctly didn't got some rise I said it, But you know, we're kind of blinded by our own determination to finish what we set out to finish. To We've told people, I'm going to do X, and you don't want to feel like a failure, but you're
actually doing yourself a disservice by continuing on. I mean, I did this with my kid's fitness business that had enormous success in the first couple of years, but then we really really struggled to duplicate it and scale it and tried many different options, but those options were very expensive ever a long period of time, and I was bringing up an enormous amount of debt. But I was
so pigheaded, I was so proud. I was so determined to tell people that I was going to build this kid's fitness empire, that I'd kind of attached a part of my self worth to achieving it. And I ended up with a nine hundred thousand dollars debt and nowhere near achieving the goal. At the time, it was shamed. There was embarrassment. There was an enormous amount of anxiety and stress about the financial position that I'd put myself in, and you know that took a while to sort of
clor out of that. But the reality is I should have heeded this advice. I think the key here is even if you decide to persevere. But please don't take this as whatever you're doing right now, put tools down and quit, because ninety percent of the time you should be persevering. All I'm saying is make sure there are checkpoints on these journeys quarterly or bi annually, or at least annually where you are stopping and evaluating is it still what it was meant to be? Am I actually
getting closer to my goal? And is it better to continue to persevere or should I be quitting or pivoting? And if the answer is the latter, there is no shame in that. In fact, it is the right smart move.
Just evaluate a number of things that you've been working on for a while and is there something that needs a change on you need to put a full stop on, because if there is, I hope that this little conversation that we're having a Monday can be a life changer, because it genuinely could be one of those things that without having that moment of reflection or that moment of looking inward, you could waste a lot of time, a lot of energy on something else that you could be
spending all that time and energy on would be of a lot more benefit. So from a mental, physical, financial relationship perspective. Your would life listener task is to just evaluate, look in and evaluate the things that you've been working on for a long time in your life that are really important to you and make that decision do I persevere or is it time to quit.