You Are Not A Quitter

The Subtle Art Of Not Giving Up

Jothi PM
Modern Women
3 min readMar 29, 2024

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You wake up not when the alarm hits but a bit late. Scratch your eyes hoping to see the sunny day through your window. And It’s not. It’s a cloudy, dark day which could easily become a rainy day at any minute. There it is, the first thing that you didn’t get today.

Probably, You start your day even worse by checking your emails and there is a special email from the employer that you opened with a light excitement in one corner of your lips. It’s mentioned politely that the employer moves on with other candidates who are more suitable than you. You have no idea how this polite email could just trigger your annoyance and want you to swear in the morning. You just pressed your mobile down the pillow. Go on with your day.

This is a typical day of mine almost every time I wake up.

Rejections, desperate need to earn money, unbelievably filled with the responsibilities to serve my family food, tidy up the living room, to have a clean kitchen and the list is big enough to make me exhausted just by thinking about it. Did I ever stop doing any of these?

No. I don’t. I cannot too. Then Why should I quit my dreams? Ask yourself. If you are ready to do the things every day even though you don’t 100% like doing them, why can’t you work on your dreams?

Make it a part of your daily routine

Every day we do the things that make us physically draining without skipping. Those things are perfectly wired into our daily routine. You know our mind is not accustomed to routine change.

To pursue your dream, tailor a little part of it into your daily routine

Stalk Them

Everyone has a dream of their own. From billions of people, there are not billions of dreams. Most of the dreams are correlated and want something that is not unique.

The people who achieved their dreams are the ones who went down the same path as an amateur like you. Trying to reinvent the wheel is nonsense. Instead, analyse their steps, mark down their setbacks and find out which could work for you, and which would definitely not.

Following people who once had dreams like you and became successful have a bucket load of information with trial and error. Stalking them on the Internet is the easiest way to plot down your path.

But Don’t compare yourself with them.

Know That You Are Not Naturally A Quitter

Our brain likes to stick with something but not for a long time. Most of the time, it needs a break. That’s what is interpreted as being insecure, having negative self-talk, and addiction to social media.

Take a break for the moment of time not from the moments of pursuing your dreams.

Daily routines take time to break. Adding your dream to your routine makes it inevitable. Getting opinions on what to dream from random people is bad for you. Listen to the people who have dreamed and done as they would have the right information.

If you don’t quit today, you cannot quit tomorrow too.

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Jothi PM
Modern Women

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