Watch my video below to learn more about the success-killing pitfalls of taking advice from a quitter. You can’t want success for someone more than they want it for themselves.īUT, that does NOT mean you listen to them blab about how they quit, and let it influence YOUR success, because 9 times out of 10, they’ll try to talk you out of it in order to justify the fact they gave up. What they’re really saying is they still want their old ways more than they want to get their weight off and take control of their health. You’re thinking of doing it (or maybe you are doing it), and someone who tried Code Red, failed, and went back to their old ways tells you, “Well I couldn’t do that. Someone who’s failed and given up at something gives us advice on it, and we stop and listen to what they have to say. It seems so obvious…yet so many people (including me, before I realized it) do it! In order to try new things, you have to allow yourself also to quit.“Really, Cristy? Never take advice from a quitter? Duh!!” It wasn’t a waste of anyone’s time or money. Just as they predicted I would, but you know what? I played for years and I had wonderful experiences performing in a band and learning to read and appreciate music. Yes, I wore my parents down and got lessons.Then I quit. So, Be a Quitter!īack to the clarinet lessons. After a break, I’ve returned with more energy to tackle the complex character of Willow Morozov and the twisty plot in Just Gods: The Eventer’s Revenge. I also wrote a romantic suspense in a horse setting that is with my editor, being reviewed and prepared for publication and I’m now, at last, ready to tackle the third book in the series. Buy 'Never Take Advice From A Quitter Or A Pretender' by LifeAround as a Sticker. That novel is being pitched to agents for representation. I needed to step back from the Young Adult series and try something new so I wrote a dual timeline murder mystery set in the Jazz Age and today. The truth of the situation is this: I have not quit writing and in fact have written two novels since then, but they are not yet released. Stephen Haines - Mary: May I suggest, if youre dressing to please Stephen, not that one. Radio Ed Harris - Coach Jones Tag: advice, clothes From the movie: The Women more on this quote - Mrs. It looks as if I have quit writing in my Maryland Equestrian novel series because I did not release the last book (as promised in the preview included in book 2, Horse Gods: The Dressage Rider’s Betrayal. - Radio: How bout this one - Coach: Those look fine Radio. I was recently called a quitter by one of my reader/reviewers and it hurt because I could not address her charges. She was preserving her physical as well as mental health. There’s been a lot of talk lately about quitting surrounding the decision of Olympic gymnast Simone Biles and her decision to withdraw from some events. I’ve taken breaks from writing when I needed to step back and reevaluate my goals and to regain lost enthusiasm for projects. It turned out I got faster times as a result even though it would seem to make no sense that walking would allow me to finish faster “in the long run.” It’s because we all need rest, breaks, periods of quitting in order to renew our strength to press on. In fact, I recently discovered that when running longer distances it was beneficial to take a walk break–even a very short one–to regain some strength. In any activity, even very fun ones, it is sometimes smart to take a break. You are not running away from something when you quit, you are simply changing your heading. You quit when you have changed your mind, evaluated a situation and found it lacking, or have simply exhausted an experience’s benefits and are ready to move on. Quitting is often a good thing when it is done for the correct reasons. It was a negative label given to someone who could not see things through, find the courage or fortitude necessary for a task. My whole life being called a quitter was a dirty word. If you had to be good at things and couldn’t quit, it created a formula for never trying anything new, never risking anything, never experimenting… Quitting is a Dirty Word Combine this with the mandate not to fail and you’ve got a toxic combination. That means, you are not allowed to simply try new things. My parents’ response was ‘You’ll just quit and then we’ll be stuck paying for an expensive instrument.’ The message for me was this: You are not allowed to quit. I fell in love with the sound of the clarinet and began what became an almost year-long campaign for lessons. When I was in the third grade, a band director came to my school and gave a demonstration of various instruments and encouraged students to learn to play one.
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