If you know me, you know that I have quit almost everything I have ever tried.
High School football? Quit.
The Texas 2 step? Quit.
Jobs? How much time do you have?
Guitar? Quit. Started again, quit, then started, then quit (this carousel, like the acorn, continues to spin). At the time of this post, starting again (we’ll see).
ASL interpreter? Quit.
Writing? See “guitar” above (based on this post, looks like I am trying to start again, again…again (also, we’ll see).
Teaching program? Quit (I don’t know how teachers do it! God bless you all).
Losing weight? Quit.
Comedy? Quit
I could go on but this is supposed to be an inspirational post and I am starting to cry.
I have done countless personal inventories, online questionnaires and seminars over the years to try to determine why I am the way I am.
I could blame my folks.
Blame them because, A. they’re not here to defend themselves and 3. it’s always someone else’s fault.
That’s the thing right? Not my circus, not my responsibility. It’s someone else’s fault.
I didn’t raise me to be a quitter.
But they didn’t either. Not really. Sure, I learned lessons from them but I am the one that decided to put those things into practice.
I am the one that made the choice to follow the path pointed out to me instead of one that would lead to success, fulfillment and financial freedom.
I am the one that settled for the easy road. Which, leads nowhere – in case you’re curious.
To be fair, they only did what their parents did and their parents before them. It’s a cycle. One in which most people find themselves.
Did I say cycle? Wrong word, it’s a trap!
Recently I made a change and I am learning to do a “new to me” thing.
It is simultaneously exhilarating and terrifying.
In order to be successful at this, I don’t have to just step out of my comfort zone – I have to move to a whole new zip code.
May as well be a new planet.
The work and the attitude needed are completely foreign to me.
It makes telling jokes to strangers feel as easy as quitting a job selling “gourmet” popcorn from a stand near the escalator in the middle of the old Tampa Bay Center, circa 1992 (wow, that’s specific).
I needed to make a change.
I had to start by changing the way I think (Romans 12:2) – still working on that one.
I have to see myself having the ability to take my family to a plac I have never dreamed about. Wouldn’t, better couldn’t, dream about it.
Why? Because when you sell your day to the highest bidder you lose even the desire to dream. Let me say that again, when you sell your day to the highest bidder you lose even the desire to dream.
I am not talking about dreaming about nice cars, bigger houses or new toys every other day, I mean to think there could, maybe, someday be a time when you don’t answer to another human about when you can go to lunch.
So, nothing major.
Going forward, no matter what happens, no matter how hard things get, how impossible what I am trying to do seems or even is, no matter what people say to or about me…
I WILL NOT QUIT!
Which, by default, continues my streak.
Mick Holt 
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I will be praying for you and th
Thanks Roger. Always appreciate the prayer!
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