Getting Rid of Quitting and Becoming an Achiever

Quitting is often an easy choice in America. It seems that many times we use quitting as the way out rather than persevering until we have a breaking out into the next phase of our lives.

Let's do a Quitter Quiz

Number one: If you heard rumors that your boss was going to be doing a cleaning out of staff would you consider quitting despite the fact that yesterday you said this was your dream job and you had just purchased a new office wardrobe?

Number two: If your child were being badgered daily in school would you instruct them to go to the teacher and resolve the issue or would you tell them to just forget about it and let it go?

Number three: If the grocery store were giving away free samples of your favorite food and you were in line for five minutes and someone was bumped ahead of you would you say forget it and get out of line or would you wait another minute or two and get your free samples?

Number Four: If you are cooking dinner and it looks delicious and you are overly hungry will you just go ahead and eat something quick rather than wait until the meal is completed?

Number Five: If you know that you have gained five pounds recently would eat whatever you want out of frustration and gain ten more or would you put yourself on a five day food plan and lose the five?

Many have not used perseverance to develop life style patterns that bring financial gain, personal victories, healthy lifestyles, and peaceful lives. We may determine that we are going to pay off that credit card and then when we have to get the car fixed we start using that card again for all sorts of extras. We sit our kids down and say there will be no more arguing in this house and then we find that we are arguing more than before so we just let everyone of the hook. We may decide to invest in sprinklers for the yard and have grass seed put down and then forget to turn the sprinklers one day and then it turns to two and then we just say forget it, I didn't need a nice yard anyway. We may blame it on the heat of the summer or the drought conditions but we really quit.

To often we have quit on ourselves. We have dreams that we have started and stopped. We have hopes that we put on the back burner. Why? Often it is because in this world of so many choices we opt out of our decisions for another choice. How can we rectify a lifetime of such decision making? One way is to acknowledge that this pattern has not been working for us. We are not out of debt, our family is not at peace, our lives are not organized, we are pleased with our accomplishments. It is time to begin rectifying this today. How? The following steps can help you achieve a new level of completing tasks and goals through self-accountability. You will begin to hold your self accountable for the goals you set rather creating goals based on emotional highs and rejecting those goals based on emotional lows.

Accountability Plan: Step One: Put your goals in writing. Start with five short term goals and five long term goals. Short term: lose ten pounds, keep the house clean, teach the kids to speak respectfully. Long term: write book, start your dream business, get out of debt. Step Two: Choose objectives for each goal that will get that goal accomplished and write them down. Step Three: Check on your goals and objectives once daily and keep record of all accomplishments. Step Four: Stick with your goals until they are completed and then add new short term goals or add more objectives to meet your long term goals.

Use this plan to keep yourself accountable. Do not give up on the goals you have set. Remember to treat yourself kind and reward yourself for hard work and accomplished goals. This lifestyle of quitting didn't start overnight but you can change it starting today. You can get rid of quitting and become an achiever. What you achieve today will affect your tomorrow.