#3 Not Giving Up

Ever felt like throwing in the towel on a project, relationship, or career move? You're not alone, and this episode could be your guiding light. Join me as I share my personal journey of navigating setbacks and transforming failures into stepping stones, illustrating how the art of perseverance can turn the most daunting challenges into triumphant successes. By examining the fine line between making a conscious decision to pause and simply giving up, I offer insights that can help you align your actions with your true desires and goals. From the ups and downs of learning to code to the evolution from personal diary recordings to public podcast episodes, discover the iterative processes that foster real growth and improvement.

In moments of doubt, self-reflection and faith become our strongest allies. Let's explore how stepping back and evaluating our paths can reveal whether we are still aligned with what we truly want and need. Through introspective questioning and the power of meditation, learn how to build inner strength to silence those nagging doubts that often hold us back. Whether it's a relationship teetering on the brink or a personal project that seems impossible, this episode is about finding clarity and resilience to push through and emerge stronger on the other side. Tune in for a heartfelt exploration of perseverance and the profound power that comes from embracing one's personal journey.

Chapters

• 0:01 Never Give Up in Life
• 8:02 Strength Through Self-Reflection and Faith

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:01

Hello and welcome back to another episode of Eric's Podcast. I'm your host, eric. Today I want to talk about not giving up, and that can apply to pretty much anything in life and, yes, there is a time to stop doing something, but I wouldn't label it as giving up. When we go out and build projects and a project can be anything from like a relationship you could label it as a project. It could be a project at home, like building something. It could be a habit that you're either trying to make or break. It could be a business. It could be having children, having children.

Speaker 1: 1:10

There's lots of different projects that we do and are trying to do in our regular everyday lives all the time, and it's really easy to get discouraged sometimes when it seems like things are falling through the cracks or you're being told something from discouraging, from people telling you to just give up. Just give up already. It's not going to happen. You're not going to be able to make it work. You're never going to have that habit. You're never going to be able to make it work. You're never going to have that habit. You're never going to be able to break it. You're never going to be able to have kids. So just stop already those negative thoughts, because that's stuff that we can tell ourselves sometimes. Because that's stuff that we can tell ourselves sometimes and coming from other people, you have to decide whether or not you're going to defy it and say, no, I'm going to do it, I'm going to make it happen and get back on that horse, stand back up and revive yourself, because sometimes the thing is is that if you believe them and you give up, you are literally fulfilling what everyone is saying and what you are saying to yourself. Now, I'm not saying choosing to stop doing something or choosing to put something on hold. That isn't giving up, because that is a conscious decision that you are making, based off of reasoning that you have come to the conclusion of. But giving up usually stems from a negative place and it stays there when you look back, it stays there as a negative place. So, guys, this is the thing, this is what I do. Now, you know I am not let's just throw this out here Like I'm not a licensed psychiatrist or anything like that. So this isn't medical advice just for the legal people out there, which you guys already know that but basically what I do is, when I have those negative feelings or emotions.

Speaker 1: 3:50

I will try to take a step back and kind of look at everything, try to take myself out of it all and try to step back from the situation and look at it and just ask myself is this good for me? Do I still want to do this? And is this like, just think about, is this benefiting my family? Is this good for? Is it good to be in this situation? Is this where I'm supposed to be and pray and ask the Lord and meditate on it? Is this what I'm supposed to be doing right now? Is this what you want me to do?

Speaker 1: 4:44

And one first, if you do that, you feel a lot better instantly, just you just do. And then, two, you actually have some form of direction. And three, you are not listening, or you know that you're not listening or making a decision based off of those negative people and those negative thoughts and so thoughts and so just take a step, just take a moment, and then you can decide and make a decision, but just giving in and just giving up and just throwing your hands up and saying, ah, can't do it, I'm not even going to try anymore because I can't do it. The reality is, is you probably can. It just is going to take some time. That's one of the things in coding when I was learning how to code websites and other things or really anything honestly actually, because every time I learn a new coding language, there's always the same sequence of events. There's always a try didn't work, try to figure out why it didn't work, try again it didn't work, try to figure out why it didn't work. And you just keep doing that loop and you know what's actually happening. You are learning why it doesn't work and how many ways it doesn't work, but there's going to be a time when you keep trying to keep doing it. There will be a time where it works, but you've gained all the knowledge on ways it doesn't work, which you might think is not very useful, but actually is. It's very useful because when you want to go back and code something similar, you have all the knowledge of the other thing that's similar, why it didn't work, and you can bring that in and halfway be done with the job, because you already spent the time knowing why most of it wouldn't work anyway. So you can just go straight to the answer. I mean okay.

Speaker 1: 7:11

Another great example would be building a book, maybe. Or building a book, writing a book. Take a podcast, for example. I have been doing these podcast recordings, but more as a diary to myself, for years and years and years, but actually doing one publicly is brand new to me. So I know ahead of time that I'm going to learn and I'm going to iterate and I'm going to keep going and running and running and running it until we get something that actually is great and perfect and sounds decent and is good for you guys.

Speaker 1: 8:02

So, anyway, the big, the whole point of this is to understand and to and just, if you're feeling down, if you're feeling low, like like you want to feel, like you want to give up on something or give up on a relationship or whatever it may be, take a step back and just ask yourself do I still want this? Is this good for me? And Lord, what do you want me to do? And just wait for the answer and meditate on those things and every time it happens, do the same thing, and your resolve will become more and more strong as you do that, and those voices and those people telling you you can't do it, you won't be able to do it, you can't accomplish it, will just slowly fade and fade and fade. So that's it. That's the episode for today, guys. Yeah, thanks for hanging out with me. I hope it was somewhat encouraging and I will see you guys next time.