During the gold rush in the United States of America, a man visited a popular site and began digging, striking gold.
He got his family members and friends to invest in machinery to bring the ore to the surface. He sold all he had and moved to Maryland to start mining. After a while, the gold ore finished. They kept digging, hoping to strike gold once again. After months of digging, they finally decided to pack their bags and return home.
They sold their machinery to a junk dealer for a few hundred dollars. The junk man called in the mining experts, who evaluated the land and discovered why the previous owner had not found anything. They also estimated the gold’s location, finding it just three feet away from where the previous owner had stopped digging.
He only needed to dig three feet more, and he would have hit a breakthrough. What if you are three proverbial feet away from your dreams? What if you need three more no’s, three more rejections or just three more failures? What if you need three more days, or three more months, for your business to explode or make a huge turnover?
Winston Churchill once said, ‘Never, never, never, never give up’. Sometimes your most tremendous success comes at a crossroad, when you have the option to give up and walk away. Sometimes your most incredible success rides on the back of your most difficult defeat.
If we view setbacks and failures as bus stops and not final destinations, we know that we need to get up and keep moving.
Even when you’re unsure of the next step or the results, as long as your heart isn’t ready to give up, your mind will find a way.
Say this loud to yourself, ‘Quitting is not for me, impossible is not an option’. It may not be possible today, but it can be possible tomorrow.
We should learn from our bodies, specifically our hearts. It never stops beating; the beat or tempo may increase or decrease based on the circumstances or the need, but it never stops.
Just like your heart, someone connected to you is counting on you to keep going. Unknown to you, someone may need the story of how you chased your dream to survive. They will need your dream to give them inspiration to chase or bring their vision to life.
Whenever you feel like quitting, ask yourself ‘What can go right?’ Then have faith that it will. Slow down or step up, change direction or retreat, but never give up. I truly believe this for you: the best is yet to come. You have not seen your best days yet. Something beautiful and truly amazing can come out of this moment, should you choose it to be so.
Get up from the seat of hopelessness and depression. Refuse to see the bad, start hoping and believing for the best. Hang in there, help will come, light will come. Don’t give up!
Do you recall a time when you wanted to give up, but you didn’t, and just at the right moment, things turned around? I would love to hear your story. Please send me an email through my website or message me on any of the social media platforms using the handle Tomi Sule-Emmanuel.
