# Chapter 40

The most major problem with quitting or giving up is that you don’t know how far you could have gone. It stops the forward progress and makes all things come to a halt and the stretch ends. I know I know I can hear the argument in your head, that you are at the end of yourself and that you have nothing left, and so you need to stop. I get it, I truly do. Yesterday I did something only the young and foolish should do. I rode a motorcycle for 13 hours and 700 miles with detours and road constructions and hours of sitting on the interstate like it was a parking lot at Target. And yes I am still sore the next day. On the other hand, even though I could have quit and given up and grabbed a hotel room and chilled for the night and finished the trip this morning. But I did not. Because when I got here finally, the happiness of my dad in finally seeing me made that extra push worth all the pain and time and effort.

He had the garage door up and ready for me to drive right in and that says more than you can know. We never leave the garage door open. Period. So this little story tells us that the extra effort, the do-not-give-up-and-quit decision, that the sticking to it until it is finished, the see-how-far-we-can go thinking, can bring amazing results and most of the time you will be happy that you did not quit. You will never know how far you can go in life, if quitting or giving up become your standard practice.