A quitter never wins -

and a winner never quits. - Napoleon Hill

There are so many easy excuses to quit. Each day you probably run in to 5 things that make you want to throw your hands up, let out a sigh, and perhaps even contemplate changing careers or jobs so that you can avoid those 5 things. It surely happens in any industry and in any job setting from self-employed business owner to CEO of the largest firms and every position from mail-room clerk to Supreme Court Justice. It is inevitable that there will be things in your everyday course that make you want to quit.

As you achieve more those forces become stronger. There are larger hurdles, they pile up, they begin to seem insurmountable. They increasing become about larger sums of money and greater tests of responsibility, ethics and faith. And it is because they grow that it becomes more rational to see quitting as an option.

Quitting is not an option. A winner never quits. There is no valid excuse for quitting in the midst of a well-developed plan to achieve your desired outcome. None. And it makes perfect sense that it should be this way. When things are going well and you feel on top of the world, you don't contemplate quitting. You savor the moment. It is only in the dark moments, the moments that test your resolve do we let the weakness of the option of quitting creep in to our conscious. It is unacceptable. If the option is not present in your position during the good times, it shouldn't be there in the bad times either.

Commit to never quit. Throw quitting out the window with all of the other false options that give you any type of excuse to not rise to your challenge. Notice I said "your challenge" not "the challenge" - it is no one's challenge except your own. Your life will not be what you wish it to be if, at moments of difficulty, you shrink from the opportunity to rise and take your life's vision to the next level in your quest.

There are many times, too many times, when I have made quitting the first option that has come to my mind. It is easy, it feels safe, it feels less difficult in its execution. These are illusions. For quitting is never easy and is never safe. Quitting ensures that you don't progress to your goal - it promises you a lack of fulfillment. It promises nothing more than the angst that you feel when you first contemplate it and manifests itself in life-long regret.

Don't quit. Drop the option from your vocabulary. Become unburdened with that language and you will work more creatively to succeed and to find solutions to the temporary difficulties that face you. And by using creativity you will surmount those difficulties and achieve new levels of self-respect and fulfillment. I will not let myself quit any longer. The only one who is hurt by my quitting is me and my soul. My soul wants more than a life of second guesses and lost opportunities. My soul wants greatness and fulfillment - two items not provided by the choice - at any point - to quit.