I’m Too Stupid To Give Up

I am often self-encouraged by my own lack of ability to recognize the obvious.

In other words, the obvious that says, “This is never going to happen.  Quit trying.  You can’t do this.  Others have failed, you will also.”

Simply put, I am too stupid to give up.

We each have read accounts of historical figures or business leaders, who, not known then as visionaries, were told, and in many cases, multiple times, that what they were attempting to do would not, could not, will not, succeed.

Yet they kept trying, kept pursuing, would not let go of their idea, their vision, their calling, their purpose for being born.

Like many, I have goals I would like to accomplish, challenges I would like to overcome, and dreams I would like to see come to pass.

One, which I will not name here, is above all others.

It rarely ever leaves my mind.

I go to sleep with it.

I wake up with it.

No obstacle, nor power, nor person, nor lack of money, nor excess of money, nor distance, nor any promise made, nor any promise broken, outside of an act of God, will keep me from it…

…one day.

But until then, I have to fail.

And fail over and over and over again.

What two things do successful people, (and that does not necessarily always equate to money), have in common?

They fail and they never give up.

We are never defeated by our opponent or the challenge in front of us.

We are defeated by our own inability to get back up and to keep fighting.

Don’t give up.

Not now.

Sign back up, sing again, write again, date again, marry again, go after her one more time, apply for that job again, and again, and again.

Whatever it is you have just failed at, get back up and go after it again.

Fail again.

One more failure is one step closer to success.

Do not quit.

Not now.

Not ever.