When quitting is not an option

I've been dragging my feet lately when it comes to waking up in the morning and going to work. Every night before I sleep I set my alarm clock for 6am – when it goes off, I put the alarm on snooze every 5 minutes for an hour.

When I finally decide to wake up I beg myself to get up and start the day. I convince myself the day will be over before I know it and I at least get another chance to do what I didn't get to do the previous day.

What happens when one feels circumstance is taking over and they just want to quit? You should remember that quitting is not an option and that kind of thinking on its own, will drive you to choosing success.

Sometimes people don’t fail because they haven’t been trying at all; but fail because they are not doing what their heart desires. In one of Chris Gardner’s motivational videos he says: “This could be prime time for pushing your button rather than finding your button.”

He explains what he means by that statement and says: “This could be prime time that you find that one thing that you love doing so much that you would get up in the morning and do it free – prime time to find that one thing that the sun cannot come up soon enough in the morning because you want to go do your thing.  This could be that time in your life.”

Well, I know that right now is that time in my life. I've always wanted to be in the spot light. When I was in matric I wanted to go to Johannesburg and become an actress and a lawyer – young and naïve.

Where I am sitting today, I want to answer to my calling. Its prime time for me now – and guess what? I’ll still be in the spot light. It is prime time for me now because to answer I first had to go through the questions – and that was life and its knock-outs.

The knock-outs came so hard and at one stage I thought of just giving up on that one thing that made so much sense to me and I remembered one thing – quitting was not an option.

You probably sitting at that dead-end job wanting to quit – if your prime time has not yet come, don’t quit that job, because you must still provide.

My prime time has come but I am not yet about to quit the job that I must drag myself to every morning because reality is I must still provide for my family. So what other option do I have? – Many more.

When you are about to quit dreaming about a self-defined great life, take a minute to think of the countless options you have of making your dream come true and live that great life you dream of.

I know the type of life I want to live and right now I’m on the right track in pursuit of my great life.