Speaker 1: I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment for
Speaker 1: this week. Do we stick it out or is it
Speaker 1: time to quit? This topic is not something I ever
Speaker 1: thought I would say on this show, but I heard
Speaker 1: a quote this week that stops me in my tracks.
Speaker 1: The quote that I heard was successful people quit all
Speaker 1: the time. And that's the first bit. That's the bit
Speaker 1: that sort of rattled me, and I didn't necessarily agree
Speaker 1: with because I'm very much on work ethic and perseverance. However,
Speaker 1: the second part of the quote was they just know
Speaker 1: what to quit and when, and so then I thought
Speaker 1: about it. I thought, you know, you've got that friend
Speaker 1: in the toxic relationship that they can't see but everyone
Speaker 1: else around them can see, and they end up inevitably
Speaker 1: breaking up with that person, but everyone else thought that
Speaker 1: should have broken up three years ago, and that's three
Speaker 1: years of their life they're never going to get back,
Speaker 1: and it's a really hard conversation to have with someone.
Speaker 1: Or the job. You know, you've got the friend in
Speaker 1: the job that they despise, and we get one life
Speaker 1: and they go into that job nine to five forty
Speaker 1: eight weeks a year and they hate it and it
Speaker 1: kills you to watch that person doing that. You know
Speaker 1: this might even be you. But in the fitness motivation
Speaker 1: world it's like, don't quit, keep going. But the reality
Speaker 1: is to have the most success, sometimes quitting or knowing
Speaker 1: when to quit or knowing what to quit, as I
Speaker 1: said in the quote, are absolutely critical. Now the key
Speaker 1: here is you don't just stop and do nothing. You
Speaker 1: don't quit, give up, walk away. I had a crack
Speaker 1: a life, or I had a crack at that, and
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do anything else. It's understanding when
Speaker 1: you are attempting to do something and you've reached the
Speaker 1: point after a certain amount of time where the results
Speaker 1: are aren't there that you thought would be there, or
Speaker 1: you've reached a platter, or in some cases you might
Speaker 1: even be going backwards, and even though there might have
Speaker 1: been initial success in a nice steep curve at the beginning,
Speaker 1: that has absolutely dissipated. And sometimes we can't see the
Speaker 1: forest of the trees. I think I've got that quote right.
Speaker 1: If not, someone will correctly didn't got some rise I
Speaker 1: said it, But you know, we're kind of blinded by
Speaker 1: our own determination to finish what we set out to finish.
Speaker 1: To We've told people, I'm going to do X, and
Speaker 1: you don't want to feel like a failure, but you're
Speaker 1: actually doing yourself a disservice by continuing on. I mean,
Speaker 1: I did this with my kid's fitness business that had
Speaker 1: enormous success in the first couple of years, but then
Speaker 1: we really really struggled to duplicate it and scale it
Speaker 1: and tried many different options, but those options were very
Speaker 1: expensive ever a long period of time, and I was
Speaker 1: bringing up an enormous amount of debt. But I was
Speaker 1: so pigheaded, I was so proud. I was so determined
Speaker 1: to tell people that I was going to build this
Speaker 1: kid's fitness empire, that I'd kind of attached a part
Speaker 1: of my self worth to achieving it. And I ended
Speaker 1: up with a nine hundred thousand dollars debt and nowhere
Speaker 1: near achieving the goal. At the time, it was shamed.
Speaker 1: There was embarrassment. There was an enormous amount of anxiety
Speaker 1: and stress about the financial position that I'd put myself in,
Speaker 1: and you know that took a while to sort of
Speaker 1: clor out of that. But the reality is I should
Speaker 1: have heeded this advice. I think the key here is
Speaker 1: even if you decide to persevere. But please don't take
Speaker 1: this as whatever you're doing right now, put tools down
Speaker 1: and quit, because ninety percent of the time you should
Speaker 1: be persevering. All I'm saying is make sure there are
Speaker 1: checkpoints on these journeys quarterly or bi annually, or at
Speaker 1: least annually where you are stopping and evaluating is it
Speaker 1: still what it was meant to be? Am I actually
Speaker 1: getting closer to my goal? And is it better to
Speaker 1: continue to persevere or should I be quitting or pivoting?
Speaker 1: And if the answer is the latter, there is no
Speaker 1: shame in that. In fact, it is the right smart move.
Speaker 1: Just evaluate a number of things that you've been working
Speaker 1: on for a while and is there something that needs
Speaker 1: a change on you need to put a full stop on,
Speaker 1: because if there is, I hope that this little conversation
Speaker 1: that we're having a Monday can be a life changer,
Speaker 1: because it genuinely could be one of those things that
Speaker 1: without having that moment of reflection or that moment of
Speaker 1: looking inward, you could waste a lot of time, a
Speaker 1: lot of energy on something else that you could be
Speaker 1: spending all that time and energy on would be of
Speaker 1: a lot more benefit. So from a mental, physical, financial
Speaker 1: relationship perspective. Your would life listener task is to just evaluate,
Speaker 1: look in and evaluate the things that you've been working
Speaker 1: on for a long time in your life that are
Speaker 1: really important to you and make that decision do I
Speaker 1: persevere or is it time to quit.