You can’t give up. On your dream, on your passion, on this vision for your life that extends farther and further than your current reality.
You can’t pull an Elsa and just let it go — shooting shards of ice at anyone who brings up those dreams you used to talk about.
No matter how distant your dreams feel right now. No matter how hard the path. No matter how unrealistic it feels right now.
You can’t give up.
Here’s why:
Who will you not be able to help if you give up now?
There’s people out there. You might not even know they exist. And they need you. They need your voice, your creativity, your talent, your insight, your encouragement, your hand up from out of the mud.
And if you quit now, you won’t be there when they need you the most.
Your moment is waiting for you. If you stop looking, how will you ever find it?
I know, because a few years ago I was a week away from quitting. After years of failing to get a book published, of spending hours and hours growing a small blog, of wondering if my email was broken because I couldn’t get anyone to reply back to me.
I felt like a failure.
I had enough.
It was too much work, too painful, and all the writing on the wall was smacking me in the face and screaming at me to stop this silly dream.
And yet, something told me to hold on.
All the facts were telling me that quitting was the smart, reasonable choice. Yet, deep in my spirit, I knew that the ripples of quitting now was going to extend further than I could see…
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