MKE WEEK 14 – I Quit

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Yep, it is so easy to quit.

Here’s why:

My body aches.

Don’t even mention my throat. Every time I couch, I feel like I have to cough up a dry verbal. Or someone is playing the violin in my throat with a saw and then a feather.

The saw is painful, but the feather causes me to cough hysterically.
Oh, did I mention I can’t read anything out loud? To painful.
And I am running behind on my services

Yep, quitting is so much easier.

Have you ever asked this question?
What am I really quitting on?
Did you know quitting is a habit?

I would be quitting on myself.
You would be quitting on yourself.

With all of this pain and running behind, quitting seems so much easier.

But if I turn around and look at what I have accomplished so far and imagine what more I’m going to accomplish in the future, I would be crazy to quit. Looking back and forward also reminds me of why I started in the first place.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place.

If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting,

I ask myself, which would I rather live with? – Lance Armstrong

Well, I made my choice. Have you?

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  • Myrna,
    Hooray for you and your conquering spirit!! You will finish the race because you can!!

  • Hi Myrna, thanks for sharing, many have given up this year, I am glad you have not. As they say Keep on Pushing!

  • Hi Myrna, This is a good way to look at the healing process that is already taking place. It is temporary. You are whole, perfect, strong, powerful, loving, harmonious and happy.

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