I tend to be a very determined person. I believe that often the difference between success and failure is the successful person just gets up one more time than he fails. One of my my mottos is “refuse to lose.”
John Maxwell makes some insightful points about quitting in the latest Leadership Wired newsletter:
“You may have heard the saying, ‘Quitters never win, and winners never quit.’ Nothing could be further from the truth! Leaders are strategic quitters.”
I think he’s right. Sometimes we continue to do things we know aren’t working because we’re afraid of risk. We’re afraid that if we quit the job we hate we won’t find a better job. We continue doing things that are ineffective because we don’t want to rock the boat. There are people who like things the way they are and will be impacted if we make a change.
In the article he cites 3 valid reasons to quit:
- You quit something you don’t do well to start something you do well.
- You quit something you’re not passionate about to do something that fills you with passion.
- You quit something that’s doesn’t make a difference to do something that does.