Inside Out Theory

019: How to not quit (and how to keep going) when following your dreams.


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In this episode, we speak about one thing: how to not quit (and how to keep going). 

We believe there are two building blocks you need in order to not quit on your dreams. Our number one is, you must know your 'why'. What is a 'why'? Your 'why' is your backbone, your bloodstream, your foundation to your house. Ask yourself, why is it so important to your heart, to your soul, to your being, that you do what you do? Your 'why' will help you start. It will help you show up. It will help you beat resistance. It will bring you peace. Your 'why' will save your life.

The second building block is self compassion. It's self love. It's doing the work. Trying and failing is a lot more acceptable to me now, than giving up. Have you heard the quote, "The definition of hell is when you meet the person you could have been,"? Giving up to me now, is failing. I refuse to be the reason I don’t make it. I refuse to be the girl that gave up on herself. I refuse to be the woman that let herself down. It can be everybody else, but there's no way in hell I'm going to let it be me.

If you are at a point where you are considering giving up on something that you love doing, something that you've dreamed of doing your whole life, you have more work to do on yourself as a human than you do as an artist. You must ask yourself, why am I even entertaining the idea of letting myself doing this much? Why am I trying to convince myself that I could live without something I know deep down I can’t live without? We need to build a certain level of self love and self compassion to get to a place where even entertaining the idea of quitting is no longer acceptable. Then, once we get to a place where quitting is no longer an option, how to do we keep going? 

We turn to our 'why'. 

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