real negative connotation attached to it.
Everybody - including me - sings the
praises of persistence...and with good
reason.
But there is a difference between persistence
and stubbornness.
Persistence is sticking to something when
there is still a good chance of making it
work.
Stubbornness is continuing with something
when the likelihood of success is minimal.
So I'm going to go ahead and say it once and
for all:
Quitting isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Let me give you an example:
A few years back Nick and I owned a smoothie
bar.
As people became more and more comfortable
making purchases online - our sales
diminished.
There was no way we could match the prices
online retailers offered.
So, through lots of marketing and hard work
we were still profitable - but the smoothie
bar provided - by far - the lowest return on
our time.
So we cut it loose.
It wasn't that we couldn't make it profitable.
It just would never be as profitable as the other
things we could invest our time and resources in.
So we quit the smoothie bar business.
Sometimes you need to quit swimming upstream
because your unwilling to quit.
There have been several times in my career I
should have quit something sooner - but didn't
because I refused to quit.
Don't make the same mistake I did.
If you are working on several projects and one
of them seem to be like fighting a continual
uphill battle - drop it and focus on the other
projects.
You'll be much happier.
Dedicated to your success -
Pat
P.S. - Yesterday I told you about the Ryan Lee
Bootcamp. This is a MUST attend if you want
to find the easiest path to where you're trying
to go. Sign up here before it sells out:
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