“if you quit, if you falter, if you stop, all the pain will be for nothing.”

The other day one of those motivational videos autoplayed on YouTube, you know the ones, moody music, spliced vocals, video of people pushing themselves to the limit. If I ever listen to these kinds of things, it’s whilst training, to keep going, not to get going, but I digress. Then someone said, “if you quit, if you falter, if you stop, all the pain will be for nothing.” I quickly skipped back, listened again, and then wrote it down. A year ago I was in pretty good physical shape, but a year on I’m not. For legitimate though irrelevant reasons I quit, faltered and stopped. And when I did get going again it was very hard and I was badly out of shape. So just keeping going can be the most vital attribute you will ever possess!

Obviously they were referring to the physical pain of physical training but the principle holds true for anything that is hard. Sometimes just keeping going is the most important thing you’ll ever do. Then if we’ve quit, faltered or stopped, a huge problem is judging ourselves by what we have done or what we think we should be doing, rather than what we can do.