Just three weeks into the new year and those were the words I said to myself. “That’s it, I quit.” Three weeks of working on one of my goals for the year and I was ready to quit. It was not going the way I planned. I didn’t see the results I wanted. It was not easy. It was restricting my life I was ready to quit.

I know only three weeks into the year and I was ready to quit. Maybe you made it further in the year working on some of your goals before those words came into your mind. Maybe you have not even said those words.

But I knew I couldn’t just quit. I took some time to just reflect on the goal I had set and what was happening. Some of the thing I told myself included.

Just because it is not going the way you want, doesn’t mean you quit the goal.

Just because it is hard,  doesn’t mean you quit the goal.

Just because you don’t see the results you want, doesn’t mean you quit the goal.

I looked at the goal that I was ready to quit. I wrote about why I had written that as a goal. What was the motivation in the first place? That helped me to see that I really didn’t want to quit.

I really needed to look at the heart issues of why I wanted to quit. Heart issues are the things that are going on inside. Addressing the heart issues can impact the goal. Those heart issues were not pretty.

When I looked at those heart issues, I saw that I wanted to quit because I didn’t want to deny myself, this goal required a bit of extra planning, and I was envious of others. I saw that I was lazy, I was envious, and I was self-indulgent. I told you it wasn’t pretty. That is not a reason to quit.

I knew that I needed to change the heart. I need to be willing to deny myself. I needed to be diligent. I also realised that this was a goal that was bigger than just me doing it on my own. It was something that was going to require God’s help.

After a bit of journaling and reflection, I was renewed and ready to work on that goal. I knew it would be hard and might take some extra planning. I am not going to quit.

I was ready to continue to work on that goal. I knew it would be hard. I knew it might not go the way I wanted. I knew might take longer than I planned but I knew that this is something that God wanted me to do. Working on that goal is obeying God and quitting well for me and for that goal it would be disobedience. I was ready.

“That’s it. I am not going to quit.”

What do you do when you are ready to quit?