Quitters never win?

 Maybe It’s Time to Q U I T?

We are sort of wandering through January and our resolutions are going well….well or are fading in the rear view mirror.  actually research shows that the great  majority of  resolutions  are abandoned. On or before January 19th and thus that day has been declared “National Quitters Day.”  Of course we have defined  those who quit as losers (in general) and so often hear the axon  “quitters never win.”   Stop!

 Let’s take a seeking peace and joy tilt. To this and ponder  other possibilities.  What if what we  are doing isn’t working for us anymore?  What’s the definition of insanity?  Isn’t it doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result?   If we don’t wuit something is it possible to choose some other things to try?  Hmmmm?  Maybe we can QUIt in a distinctly inventive. Fashion.  

So let’s  Q…

Quiet  our anxiety.  Know that we sometimes have to face fear and choose change and know the risk is worth the  reward so first let’s quiet the fears.  

Next  let’s U…

As in use our talents and resources to develop some  new experimental behaviors.  Doing  something new is not really the same as quitting and sitting still.  After you have become quiet for a heartbeat or two then start acting again and learning from new actions as you have quit and learned the primary. Lesson  from what you had been doing.  Yes it is important. To persist in exploring  which resources to use  to seek peace and joy and exhaust  many of them, however, there is a value in diversifying your efforts and engaging new ones.  There is no I in Peace or  Joy…or is there?  

When you decide to change and go forward  with new things it is not  giving up it is “I”venting some new aspects of  your “Identity and “i”nvestigating it and determining. If you intend to invest in it (Enough “I”’s for  you?

finally life is not always a T party, yet it could be if…

You “T”rust  your “T”transitional  capacity.  Seeking peace and joy means  using your tools in new ways and if needed. It means leaving some tools and their  products behind.  

Bottom line we have often made resolutions as a fuzzy promise to change and maybe  we could reframe  “quitting”. In a way that quiets fear, uses new ideas, promotes innovation, insights, and investigation of new dynamic features of your identity.  Will it take trust and  the power to toss some things away and transfer some others…Yes…. 

The point is that we  can choose to understand “quitting” in a balanced sort of way….. by the way it’s time to quit writing this entry. And keep smiling. a more balanced way