Quit before the goal?

Filed in archive Personal Development on July 24, 2008

Previously I have show a video from Rich Hopkins who is preparing to compete in Toastmaster's International Speech contest next month in Calgary.

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In his blog today he says that most people quit right before they are about to reach their goal. Rich makes a pretty profound statement here. How many of us cannot look back at a situation and say if we had just kept going...

Of course hindsight is the proverbial 20/20 but instead of thinking about the past we must work toward our feature learn the lessons we can and make sure that we do not stop until our goal is reached. Once we set a goal for ourselves we must set goals everyday that will put us on track to win the goal.

Think about people like thomas edison who had many failures before finally figuring out the light bulb. What if he would have stopped before reaching his goal?

The picture shows the 1992 NASCAR Winston Cup Trophy won by Alan Kulwicki. Despite overwhelming odds including loosing his sponsor after 1990, Alan never lost sight of his goal: to become a winning car owner/driver. He was offered big money to driver the very car he would beat to the championship. Kulwicki would die in a plane crash just months after winning the trophy but he remembered today as the person who fought all the odds and won.

You can go ahead and stop today, but what if that goal of yours is just around the corner or close to it? Will you be second guessing yourself for the rest of your life?