Why do people quit and give up when they are so close?
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They want the outcome more than they want to obtain a skill.
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How many people do you know that speak often of something prestigious they want to be…. gain a black-belt, become an instructor, and yet never actually take the necessary steps in order to become that very thing?….. A lot.
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Why? Because knowledge and mastery over a skill wasn’t the driving force….. the shiny reward at the end was.
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They also care too much about what people think (and fear judgment in failure).
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By sabotaging yourself, it’s what people do to avoid the fear of rejection. You can see the failure coming ahead of time. You can prepare for it. You can make up a whole story about how it wasn’t your fault. And all of that is much safer than putting it all on the line and giving the world a front row seat.
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People give up because they fear what other people will think if they fail.
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So many people lack commitment today. Few people truly actually care about things, and don’t create the habits to be truly committed.
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Most of the time, people give up on their goals simply because they lack discipline. They can’t get themselves to see something through to the end. They haven’t yet cultivated the habits required to practice not just on the days they feel inspired and motivated, but the days they feel uninspired as well.
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They get distracted by what someone else is doing. What this leads to is a lack of patience, which encourages a lack of discipline, which only speeds up the process of quitting, of giving up.
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Mindset is everything, and without an iron clad and positive frame of mind, you will fail. That’s just the cold hard truth of it all. No matter how talented you are, no matter how many opportunities are handed to you on a silver platter, if you lack belief in yourself you will find a way to quit and give up.
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An average person, with average skill sets, but a persistent mind, can make it past the finish line…… A talented individual with no self belief cannot.
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Success is yours for the taking. 
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“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
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