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4 ways to never give up and achieve your goals

Aug 29, 2016, 15:23 IST
Life is not a bed of roses and everyone, in some manner or the other, gets pricked by thorns. We all face tough times and pass through them too as everything is a phase and they pass too. Nothing is constant.
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However, in that moment of grief or failure, people do think about giving up. No matter how passionate you are about something or how much you want something in your life, when life becomes hard, we become soft and leave things midway.

Be it conquering a hill, or running a business, one moment of failure dovetails into procrastination and it leads of anger and self-doubt.

That is the moment when you should tell yourself-Don’t give up. Even when climbing a hill, tell yourself-few hours more or few steps more. If you want it, have patience, courage and persistence to overcome all the odds and achieve it.

Arnoddur Magnús, in his TedTalks, said we all teach kids not to fail and failing is wrong. This reinforces a bad image of being a loser, which leads to self-hate.

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The need is to tell them how to never give up and tell them through stories and positive psychology.

Here’s how you can instil the attitude of never giving up in yourselves.
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