Before you quit something that you have been working on with your heart and soul, read this blog.

Have you heard of a term, “second wind’?  If you have just read along.  If you have not, read along anyway.  You won’t regret it.

I ran cross country during high school.

My coach Vincent used to educate us, well beyond just coaching us to be faster and stronger. I used to love that. One of the things he used to talk to us about in his kind voice was about the “second wind.”  Second wind is when a runner is all tapped out of energy from the race, and often when he or she feels like they have nothing left in them, a surge of new energy emerges so that they could finish the race that they began.

I had forgotten about it until the other day when I was working out on my treadmill.  I had not slept very well for a few days due to stressful events, not to mention not having eaten too many calories.

At one point, I thought that I had no choice but to stop because I had nothing more left in my body to continue.  I just really wanted to stop.  It was becoming almost unbearable how tired, lack of fuel, and energy I had to keep moving forward.

I was going to stop, but then I saw the number on my distance gauge, and I decided to go till at least a two-mile mark.  

The funny thing is that before I reached the number, I got a surge of energy.  I felt complete restoration of my strength and stamina, and I was able to go another 4 miles completing my daily goal of 6.2 miles/10k.

I was so happy to reach my goal, but also it made me think about how life goals also work the same way.

Often when we are completely drained of efforts that we have put into what we are working on when we feel completely tapped out, it is those of us who continue moving forward that makes it to the end.

It is this aspect, the quitting when things look hard, the very thing that differentiates between the reaching of one’s goals and not reaching one’s goals.

Your choice when you are brave enough to go after a challenge, is only one, to keep going because to quit is not to live your full life. 

Reaching your potential is that important.

No one can know and no one can tell you if what you are trying to do will give you the fruit that you want.  You have just to keep moving toward it because you are the one that has been assigned this assignment, and you have to keep moving till you get there.

Of course, you can and must pivot, learn, and adapt along the way but all of those pivoting, learning, and adopting must be for moving your project to its end to the success of what you are accomplishing.  

In the end, it is the person who remains in the race that wins.

In life, you are in this race against yourself.  You win or you lose, it is up to you.