To Quit or Not to Quit?

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Don't worry, this post is not about me wanting to quit WA. Quite the contrary. I'm sure a lot of you here watched the Super Bowl and the amazing win by the Philadelphia Eagles. What has really inspired me though, is the quarterback who played a major part in that victory.

I believe his name is Nick Foles, but what is really amazing is that no one really ever heard of him or knew much about him before the month of December as he was originally the backup quarterback for the Eagles who got his chance to shine when the main quarterback got hurt.

One of the commentators during the game mentioned that he was very nearly ready to completely give up on football and move on to something else in his life, until he decided to go on a camping trip with his brother-in-law that changed everything. They pretty much had a heart to heart talk I believe and I think his brother-in-law encouraged him to give football one more chance before he completely calls it quits. He decided to follow that advice and wanted to play under the former coach of the Eagles who was Andy Reid who is currently the head coach of the Kansas City Chiefs. Nothing really happened in KC since he was the backup to the main quarterback there and so he left and decided to go to Philadelphia. Again though, he was the backup to the main quarterback of the Eagles until I believe the main QB got hurt in early December.

Then Nick Foles came in and started to do some impressive things for the Eagles and got them clear through the Playoffs and then into the Superbowl and played like he was a veteran quarterback against what seemed like the unstoppable Patriots. I mean look at this! No one really heard of this guy much before this season, seemed to be a nobody, was about ready to quit football, decided to give it another chance and is now a Super Bowl victor with the rest of the Eagles for the first time in their history.

This should be an inspiration to us all here at Wealthy Affiliate! I know we all here want to change our lives for the better, earn the kind of money that can allow the types of freedoms we so desire, but when we work at it and it just doesn't seem like anything is happening, then we wonder if this was just a waste of time and that maybe we should quit and move on to something else. I know I've had that feeling before, but there have been so many inspirational stores here at WA from other members! A lot of them were ready to quit when they finally started seeing success for the first time and then it started snowballing into even more success and goals reached for them. This should always be an inspiration to us to NEVER give up! Keep moving forward, taking action, learning, and BELIEVE that you can do this!

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Excellent story, Defiant6.
We often turn back when we are only inches away from the golden crown.

Never give up, have faith your time will come.

Enjoy your day!

You know it, Cowboy James.

Good story. I don't generally pull for the Eagles but I definitely pull for that QB story! Great example!

Great analogy. Thanks for the motivation.

If you posted this you already decided not to quit. Keep on with this track!

A similar thing happened to the GA. Bulldogs this season. Their quarterback Jacob Eason was injured in the 1st game of the season and Jake Fromm took over as the quarterback and never relinquished the spot and took them to a 12-2 season becoming SEC champions by beating Arkansas who was the only team they lost to in the regular season and Alabama in the NCAA National Championship. Kirby Smart was an Assistant Coach under Nick Saban and in only 2 years as head coach took his team all the way. Jacob Eason is now leaving GA to go play for Washington and Jake Fromm was a true Freshman this season.

It's a team effort, but when all players play up to their potential there's no telling where the team can go. Don't get me wrong but teams have to work together and anticipate the other persons move in any business for a team to be successful.

I Iiked this, shows we never know when our "turn" will come. We all have our special talents & on WA we can share them. Together
it is a Company of Wonderful People.
There are communicators, Techi people, Numbers People, & Leaders. Ego's can run rampage sometimes but we all know how to pour oil on that fire...... Oh & I forgot those wonderful people that English is not their 1st language, they rock!
Cheers Jae

I will do it like Edisons find 1,000 ways not to do it
Then success

Wow Brian,

Great article and you are right until tonite (Hawaii time) I have never heard of this guy and yet he played like a 10 year vet.

The play I saw made me think this guy is something else.

Late in the game he threw a bullet to a receiver in between 2 pat players. He threw that pass while looking away from the intended receiver and in a nanosecond he released that pass.

What a pass! He slowed the defenders just a second and he zipped it with authority. If the defenders sensed he was gonna pass to his receiver an interception would be ready to happen.

AWESOME....THIS GUY IS!

Man Brian if he gave up the world would not know of him including me.


Great article, and yup this is not the time to give up. I myself was gonna give up. I had no direction and was near dumping WA.

My mentor shared ideas and I applied it. Now my website is nowhere near where I wanna have it but I know where it'll be in ohh a few short months. Here is my website in construction.

wanttobeapartycartoonartist.com

Thanks my brother for that article. I am one who won't give up.


Frank

So are you teaching via the web? or are you just trying to get appointments?
Got a lotta referrals. Good job.
Jae

Flash4, I wanted to share with Brian that I didn't give up. If you saw my website, I'm not done as of yet. Notice there's only the homepage...only. I have no "cta page" or. "About Me" is not done, etc.,etc.

What I wanted to tell Brian I know where I'm going and I won't quit.

Jae you are correct I will teach my skill to the world. My true intent is for those interested learning to do caricatures to buy the supplies thru my affiliate Amazon. It's called "content marketing". whereby I teach so people trust me and they have no choice but to buy supplies to be a caricature artist.

I really want to tell Brian hits home with me. If I gave up Jae, I would never know how far I would go.

Now I know where I'm going and am quite excited.

Sorry Jae I'm going round and round..hope you know where I'm coming from.


Frank



Yes, This will be a good a good selling point for you.
This is what I would buy! not kidding, I would love to draw with precision, I love to sketch but of course need guidance.
So you have a good market I reckon.
Jae

Thank you my dear friend, greatly appreciate it. I am honored and humbled.

When I am satisfied with it, I will show the world. I'd say going snail speed and want to make this website I personally would be proud to share with everyone.

Hey Jae, want a caricature? If you do go to my other website it's outside of WA here it is....on the top of my home page that you will be, find "Templates." right below the top header. It's in small letters in green. You will see my poster of 65 samples. Choose one and I'll scan it. If you want the real McCoy just pm me with your address and I'll send it to you!

I'll cover the postage, really, no joke!


Frank =)

Ooops sorry here is my website;

uratanifrank.com

please go over the previous post info on the choices.

Frank

Great story Brian and 100% correct. I've been close to calling it a day a couple of times but soldiered on due to the inspiring stories that I read here.

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