Take a break. You did your best. Appreciate the effort you put in and drop it.

Drop that exercise plan you know is just too hard to manage with your life and obligations.

Drop your dream to build the next successful company because you need to be practical and get a real job.

Drop your goals because you tried and your okay with who you are now. You don’t need to push yourself too hard. Why strive for that next bar when your life is, sort of, mostly, alright now?

You’re not giving up, you’re just letting up. So go ahead.

But, before you do, remember —

That voice inside you telling you to stop is your perceived limitation. It is a reflection of what you believe you can and can’t do. When you start to feel like you can’t go any further, you are the only one who can prove yourself wrong.

Think you can’t run twenty-six miles? You can run four hundred.

Think you’re too old to achieve your dreams? Your age doesn’t make a damn difference.

Think you aren’t good enough to achieve your goals? Well, guess what, you’re right.

Until you face that voice head on, pick a fight, get destroyed, and get back up and do it again. Until you break yourself on the feeling of failure repeatedly without relent. Until you’ve taken every moment you’ve heard the words “you can’t”, and stared boldly into the abyss of all your doubt and shouted:

Why not?

Only then will your muscles start to build.

Only then will you begin to push the bar forward.

Only then will you recognize the voice telling you to stop as it’s true self -

The fear of who you could become if you stopped believing in your limits.