A simple title, yet a super powerful message. After all, in order to get where you want to go in life, you first have to get up. But then, even after you have decided to get up, you still have to "go" if you ever expect to get there. Far too often we find that
proverbial get up and go has got up and left way too many people in this country. Time and time again, primary reason would-be winners never make it to top is because they do not get up, get going and keep going until they get there. Rather than give it their all, these under achieving individuals routinely take apparently easy way out by throwing in towel way too early in game. I say apparently easy way out because quitting is rarely easy way out and is never winning way out of anything.
Quitting is usually accompanied by one of its favorite old companions – excuse. Would-be winners seem to work overtime finding one excuse after another why something cannot be done, when in reality it would be a lot easier to just go ahead and do it instead. Quitting, in and of itself, is a relatively easy task. Quitting requires no commitment, no personal responsibility and no accountability. In fact, act of quitting requires nothing at all.
It should also be duly noted that act of quitting produces nothing as well. Without exception, at one time or another we have all been tempted to quit. It is easy to run up white flag and surrender when times get tough and going gets rough. When temptation to quit begins creeping in, that is precise moment in which players are separated from pretenders. The players keep plugging away while pretenders pack it in.
