To keep going on in the face of adversity and exhaustion is not easy.
But it might be different than you think.
See, we always focus so much on external obstacles, when the biggest tribulations are often in our own heads.
I know this to be true with the futures trading that I did for so long. I mean, sure I had a setback or two, but you know what beat me?
After the thousandth bump in the road – I quit.
Maybe the life of a trader was never for me? But I will never know for sure.
After all: You get to decide who you become.
And to keep going on, or give up, is something we have to decide daily – in almost every aspect of our lives.
There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.
-Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle Is The Way