When you have a problem, one that is especially difficult and baffling, perhaps terribly discouraging, there is one basic principle to apply and keep applying. it is simply this- never quit.
it is often difficult to keep persisting due to the discouragement associated with the previous experience. however, with determination and hard-work, you will not give up. To give up is to invite complete defeat. And not only in connection with matter at hand. Giving up contributes to an ultimate defeat of the personality.
God created man with great potential and knowledge to handle every problem. If man could create an aircraft that can fly above mountains, then we can think and work our way through every problem.
A good example of someone who never gave up was Hayes Jones.
THE STORY OF HAYES JONES
Back in 1960, this man was the phenomenon of the year in high hurdle racing. He won race after race. He broke records. He was, in fact, sensational. Naturally he was picked for the Olympics games held that year at Rome. There he ran in the 110-metre high hurdles amid worldwide expectations that he would carry off the gold medal.
But surprisingly. He didn't. He finished third. It was of course, a keen disappointment. His first thought was: ''so what! i might as well quit running''. There would be no more Olympic games for four long years. Besides, he had already won all the other coveted high hurdles championships. why subject himself to four long years of keeping in top form? The only sensible thing was to forget it and get started in a business career.
This was plain logic, for sure. But Hayes Jones couldn't settle for that. ''you can't be logical,''he says, ''about something you've wanted all your life.'' So he started training again, three hours a day, seven days a week. And in the next couple of years made some new records in the 60-yard and 70-yard high hurdles.
Came the night of February 22, 1964 at Madison Square Garden. Jones was competing in the 60-yard high hurdles. He had announced that this would be his last indoor race. Tension ran high; every eye was in him. And he won, tying his own record. Then a strange thing happened. In those days in the Garden, when runners had crossed the finish line they disappeared under a ramp before they could slow down and stop. Walking back on to the track, Jones stood for a moment with head bowed, acknowledging the applause. Then the seventeen thousand people packing the Garden stood in tribute. Jones wept. Many spectators wept, too, because a once defeated man had still stayed in there. He wouldn't quit, and the fans loved him for that.
He entered the 1964 Olympics at Tokyo and ran the 110-metre high hurdles in 13.6 seconds, finishing first-winning his gold medal.
After that he went to work for an airline as a sales representative.
Later he offered to help as a volunteer in his city's physical fitness programme. His activities got spectacular results.
This was a defeated man who never gave up. He believed that he could get the gold and he got. what is that problem confronting you and leaving you with no problem but to quit? Just believe that you can get the gold out of it and you definitely will. In summary don't give up just like Hayes. The potential you need to surmount any challenge is in you. Never give up.