I welcome you to my blog. One thing we have to accept is the fact that life is filled with ups and downs, and without ups and downs, there is no life. It is actually the ups and downs that remind us that we are alive, and when we tend to feel like giving up or relaxing too much, these ups and downs bring us back to reality and wake us up from our slumber, and we are forced to keep going and not give up or settle for less. As life is filled with ups and downs, we all need motivation to keep us going because, truth be told, life is filled with more downs and fewer ups, especially when you are trying to find your feet.
Sometimes you are so down and you feel like that is the end of you, but it will actually be the end of you if and only if you give in and decide to give up and stop trying. One thing that moves hand in hand with success is not giving up and staying consistent at trying to change your situation no matter how down you are. If you keep trying to see the light one day, you are definitely going to see the light, and there will be nothing to stop you, but that will happen only if you keep trying. The day you give up and stop trying is the day the hope of ever seeing the light or ever changing your situation changes.
As humans, we go by different motivations and different quotes; some of these quotes we came up with, while some we came across and fell in love with, and we held on to them as they helped us find purpose or a reason to keep going when we almost gave up on everything we had worked so hard for. For me, the quote that echoes in my head whenever I want to get something done or let it go after working so hard is "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.” by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. I don't know how others interpret this quote, but for me it means whatever you are involved in actually has to be worth it, and for that reason, see it to the end and not leave halfway.
It also means whatever you are involved in, you have to give it your best, do it well such that you do not have to come back to it again. Whatever you do, let it be once and for all. Ensure you don't have to do the same thing twice; if it is worth doing, then do it well; if you won't do it well, then don't do it at all and save yourself the stress of having to do it all over again.
