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We are often told that quitting is a bad thing.

Because winners don’t quit.
Winners say yes to everything.
Winners hustle!
Winners are constantly motivated.
Sleep is a waste of time for winners.

They’re all LIES.

In fact, winners quit all the time.

They quit unhealthy relationships.
They quit toxic jobs.
They quit interactions that force them to be vicious.
They quit their decisions if they haven’t worked despite best attempts.
They quit situations if they are not headed in the right direction anymore.
They quit any bias that prevents them from exploring new differing perspectives.

What is the mark of a true winner?

To know when to stop doing something.
To know when to change course.
To know when to reassess, reimagine, and reconfigure.

Don’t be afraid of change; it will only help you win.

It’s hard to have more time.
Too much to do.
And all that’s genuine work.

But if we do what we have been doing, how will we ever get different results?

The key is to do different things to change the results, because the same things always guarantee the same results.

The key is to know that the most successful people also have the same twenty-four hours; what and how we do things matters.

The key is to know that we have the key; not the reasons we tell ourselves.

Of course, time is a constraint.
That equally makes it a power for us.

Study hard. Get good grades. Go to college. Get a job. Get married. Settle down.
That’s the society’s definition of success. 

Nothing wrong, however, it’s someone else’s – and we may want to create our own.

Which may mean taking a gap year.
Or not knowing what to do for five years.
Or perhaps always exploring; never settling.

We’ll not be accepted, laughed at, and even mocked at what we do.
Almost every time.

The unconventional path is filled with resistance.
But at least it is our own!

We have big dreams. They want us to never stop.
Our fears are also loud. They want us to stop right now.

Which one will win?

The one that gets heard the most.

Dream is an inner voice. Fear is an acquired one.
The voice that gets heard more, is the voice that wins.

Content creation is something all of us must do.

It’s an opportunity generator.
Helps us connect with more people.
Share our interests and work with the world.

However, a lot of people get confused about what to create content on. 

The answer is: whatever we do.

If we play a guitar, that would be our content.
If we love to write, it becomes our content.
If we manage to be productive despite stress, that becomes our content.

There’s only so much that we can create, but there is also so much that we can share about who we are. 

We’re going through a difficult time.
We’re failing.
Perhaps everyone has already believed we are a failure.

But who is a real failure?
Didn’t every successful person fail more than succeed?

The purpose of failure isn’t to prove how big a failure we are.
The purpose of failure is to test how determined towards success we are.

A friend with zero savings always nudges us to invest more.
The coworker with a secure job is pushing us to pursue our dreams.

Too often, we lay more importance on who is giving the advice instead of what advice is being given.

“They aren’t living that life, what right do they have to give me advice?” we wonder. 

Perhaps that is the exact reason they’re giving the advice.

We want to get the task done.
Before the deadline.
But we get it done only right before the deadline.

That causes chaos, confusion, and even lack of focus.

What if we broke down a huge task into small deadlines?

It’s about feeding the inner muscles to get activated near the deadline.
The smaller goals we achieve, the higher our confidence is to get more done.
The virtuous cycle just continues.

We take time to nurture all our important relationships.

Family.
Friends.
Colleagues.

However, what about the relationship with the most important person, i.e., ourselves?

What is our response when people criticise us?
What if they don’t give any reaction?
How do we stay grounded when they celebrate us?

Their responses may change.
But the inner stability is a result of our inner conversations.

We don’t control what the world tells us. 

We control our reaction to what the world tells us. 

We are nervous.
Anxious about what people would think.
Scared of not making it through.

The worst part is – this vicious cycle continues for every instance of life.

No matter how much we try, we can’t tame the mind to stop overthinking.

What if, this time we started accepting instead of resisting it?
What if we continued despite the truth?

What if we started feeding our mind the truth we want it to manifest?

We can either hear the stories our mind tells us, or tell our mind the stories we want to hear.