Giveaway! 3 Questions to Ask Before You Quit

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  Even though the situation is difficult I reread the 5 habits and am trying to memorize them and the scripture that corresponds. Thank you for the challenge.

• Am I looking for tge easy button?

  i have to make sure it’s not just pure laziness!

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• The questioned that resonated with ,e was “am I looking for the easy button?” If things get hard that is always when I bail, I like that he reminds us all things are possible with God and to grow we need those hard times and places.

• Where is the easy button? I see it in commercials. I think I see it in other people’s lives. Why can I not find it in my life? I have so many things I need to do, but I can not seem to start even one.

• I want the easy button, magic pill, etc.. So I never have to diet again. I do very well for awhile and then I host a pity party for myself because others can eat things I cannot have. Then all of my bad habits come swarming back into my life. Gain, lose, gain .lose.. I need to remember this is a journey to get closer to God and He alone can supply all of my needs.

• I definitely struggle with #1 Is it time to quit or time to finish. Sometimes we get ourselves into situations that are not ours to be involved in and we need to just walk away, that to me is not really quitting but creating healthy choices and boundries other times we may want to quit but it’s an assignment from God,past our comfort zones, and we need to finish. Only really looking at our hearts and seeking Giod can give us the answers we need.

• I always quit before I even ‘start’ on big projects! I will daydream and plan and write notes and then talk myself out of it with so many negative thoughts…if I even think a tiny bit that I will fail, I don’t do it. This leaves me heartbroken.

• I like this question: “Is there one more step?” Sometimes it is time to quit, but it’s important to make sure you quit well. I never want to leave people or projects in a worse position when I’ve left. I’d like people to appreciate my work and think of me fondly, even if they’re disappointed I’ve left.

• I’ve spent my life looking for the Easy Button. I love your book, nicki!

• I really want the easy button! Life is so hard right now on all fronts-parenting, financial, church, work. So I quit trying to keep myself healthy. Time to get back up and start working on it!
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• Like everyone else, the Easy button. I think today’s culture wants us to believe everything should be simple and quick. Not true! !

• I want an easy button!! I am a chronic quitter. I have been wanting to become my own boss for a long time now and every time I think I have figured out what I want I quit. It’s just to hard is what I tell myself. I want to become a woman who doesn’t quit!!

• The question that most resonates with me (and it appears lots of others) is looking for an easy button.

• Question #1 resonates with me the most – “Is it time to quit this or is it time to finish it? We should quit things like unhealthy relationships, bad habits or things that are not making our souls well. But maybe the desire to give up on an assignment is more of a need to finish it?”
  Yes, for me it’s more of a need to finish it. I need to to give up my bad habits, things not making me well; instead to keep moving forward, step by step, not forgetting to mix footwork with faith.

• I identify with question #1: Is it time to quit this or is it time to finish it?”. Dealing with the death of both my parents has made me at times say “I just can’t handles anything else”. yet, I have to even when I want to just walk away and ignore everything. I have learned a lot along the way and even though the process is still not done, it will be. then, it will be time to put all of this in a book to share and hopefully to help those who have faced or are facing something similar. We just have to keep pressing onward.
  Philippians 3: 13a-14 ” Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus” (NIV)

• I want the easy button. Out of pure laziness and a love for every excuse in the book, I am too preoccupied with my own selfish thoughts and wants to put an effort into something I really want. Then, I look at others who ARE putting in the effort and envy them. My sin is perpetuating sin and the bad thing is I’m 100% aware of it! I want it to be easy and because it’s not, I quit! I don’t even bother. And, like in your book, I’m waiting for Monday to come to fix this weeks mistake. I can and will do better, and I’m going to!

• That easy button sure looks tempting sometimes, but it’s not worth it. Thanks, Nicki, for the encouragement and the reminder what we quit doesn’t define us. : )

• Is there one more step…Yes and it’s the hardest one to take but once taken its our joy to know I can do it…no quitting for this lady!!

• I liked #3. Is there one more step? Sometimes it is just one more step that will keep the progress going. Each step I take is one step I didn’t quit.

• One more step? That’s exactly what I need to keep in mind. One more step to a stronger body. One more step to a healthier back. I’m a new mom with low back issues who had QUUT working out. Sounds simple right? How do women have time to work out with a little one? What if exercise hurts more than helps? These were my excuses. But Nicki you have shed some light on this girls soul. So with the one more step question flashing in my mind and my daughter as the best motivation I’m going to try one more time! ” I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength!” PHILIPPIANS 4:13

• Question number one is a struggle. Deciding whether it is time to quit something or finish it is something I wrestle with….along with my heart’s desire to do either…or neither.

• Is it time to quit this or is it time to finish it? This is the one I struggle with, because it seems to take so long to see any results that I start to wonder if I am even on the right track. In other words, is it what God wants me to be doing, or is it what I think He wants me to be doing?!

• Am I looking for an easy button?

  Thanks for the reminder that we were never promised an easy life. ❤️

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• One more step? This is hard or challenging to me; I procrastinate when overwhelmed because I have difficulty deciding on next steps.

• The questions that resonates with me is “Am I looking for an easy button?”

  When working on my goals that take time to accomplish or ones that seem to send me circling around that mountain one more time, I tend to start feeling depressed sorry for myself that it’s taking so long. I want it to have it now, accomplish it now, enjoy it now!!! The long road seems daunting and I’m exhausted. I’d like to skip the harder steps and reap the blessing without having to do the harder tasks or even wait.

  I know if i only stick with it, doing those harder tasks and pushing through, God will make things possible. Even when I feel like it’s impossible. I only need to lean into him when I’m feeling this way.

• I really have to ask myself “Am I looking for an easy button?” 8 times out of 10 this is the reason I want to quit–because it is hard. My nutrition is the one area I really tend to quit on. I tell myself I “deserve” a sweet treat after a hard day or think I can do it “just this one time.” But I’m over it! Thanks, Nicki!

• “Is there one more step?” Do I extend an olive branch…try one more time to reach out to a friend?

• I identified with the question “is there one more step?” I’m the type of person who sees a pattern and adopts a system rather quickly, but with God’s plan, I have to have faith and take each step fully relying on Him. There’s always going to be another step of faith, and this question helps me to pause and really consider God’s way instead of mine. It also grows my faith exponentially to let go of my tendencies to take control.

• I am an idea person. I can come up with some great ideas, implement, but don’t see them through to the end. And I think that’s because I don’t know what the end looks like. Maybe implementation was the end, and to give it over to someone else. So I think, is there one more step is a place I need to focus. Sometimes I might need to take one more step, and then another, and another, to see something through to the end.

• “Am I looking for the easy button?”

  Seems like this is all I search for sometimes. I lost my mom about 9 months ago when my twins were just 10 months old. It seems like since that event took place in my life, things just haven’t been easy. I think I always thought when I became a mom, I’d have my mom there to help me out, to give me advice, to share stories about me when I was my kid’s age, to encourage me and tell me everything would be okay. Everyday is hard. I’m constantly wondering if I’m doing it all wrong and I really wish I had my momma to call and talk it all out with.

  Most days I do want to quit. And I want to hit the “easy” button, if I could ever find it. Thank God I haven’t yet because even though everyday has its challenges, I can still find beauty in it all and I know God’s got my back. He’s there to encourage me, to tell me I’m doing great, to put people in my life that will give me advice and listen to my struggles. Our God is an awesome God!

• I identify with ,am I looking for an easy button? Especially when it comes to nutrition. Love your articles and teachings nicki

• The question that most resonated with me was “is there an easy button?” Along these lines I find that if something isn’t easy or if it doesn’t go exactly as I planned in my mind I too easily give up. We recently bought land and are beginning a family orchard. I’m glad I have my husband alongside me on this project- he doesn’t quit, even when things don’t go as planned.

• Am i looking for the easy button…..that is the one that hit me. Sometimes there is just no easy way to get something done. You just keep working away…a little at a time…and it gets finished. IAM NOT A QUITTER!!!!!

• 3. Is there one more step?

  This is THE ultimate question for me to ask since I seem to quit right BEFORE something is close to being finished or reignited again to give me HOPE to keep going.

  I truly experienced personal growth from this book Nicki. I have my WANT TO back again…front and center… to tackle this journey to a healthier and happier me.

  Love you to pieces!

  Mary

• I always identify with everything you write and say . Sadly I especially identify with the easy button. I am not lazy but I never realized how much I hate adversity . Would love to win!!

• perseverance ~ “A long obedience in the same direction.” I like this quote I need to remember this …

• Honestly….. I am stuck on 1 and 2…… I have a tendency to get caught up on insisting that I finish something that God has closed a door on and yet I also push that easy button at times. Not because I want “easy” per se….. but because finishing scares to you know what out of me!! I am fervently praying about this and being open to what God has for me when I do follow through.

• I need to finish. I have a pattern of starting things and never finishing or finishing months/years later. I definitely quit when it gets hard and I’ll do a hundred other things to prevent myself from finishing. I stopped my daily Bible studies and reading for pleasure. My job just takes so much out of me that I get home and just sleep. I’m trying to balance but some days it gets the best of me. I have a break this summer and I’m going to try to build routines and follow through on what I’ve started.

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• For me it is “am I looking for an easy button”? I am currently reading 5 Habits and can totally relate to the start strong and passionate person but fizzle out when it is hard. I am so thankful for His promise…where I am weak, He is strong! Thank you for the book of encouragement!!!

• Hi,
  I commented on the other blog regarding the questions just now and I can mostly identify with the ‘is it time to quit or finish it’ one. I explained my reasoning on that blog, so I won’t repeat that here, but let’s just say it got me thinking of things in a whole new perspective…isn’t God amazing?! It makes me laugh, kinda, at how He works sometimes. I know for a fact this is not a coincidence that I happened across this blog tonight… 😉

• What a great accomplishment to finish well the book God laid upon your heart to write, Nicki, and what a battle it must have been to get it done! The things we are called by God to do don’t come with manuals, step-by-step guides of instructions, they take tenacity, determination and a staying power like none other.

  “God leads us by calling out what He sees, not by calling out our failures” (Tony Evans) and so when embarking on a mission know that He will give you a name that might not seem to fit in the moment but it’s one you will grow into; don’t quit!

  Asking myself, “Is there one more thing?”, one more rock that can be over-turned and moved, one more door I can knock on, have all options really been explored and pursued? Just what I needed to read/hear!

  Thank you for not quitting, Nicki; when someone opens up their lives, shares their struggles and how they’ve overcome a weakness… well, there’s help for us all then (Revelation 12:11a).

• Thank you Nicki! So glad I found your blog!

• To quit or finish? Most times I don’t give myself permission to quit. I dont like loose ends. I always want the Norman Rockwell painting, the happy ending, everything tied up with a beautiful bow. This question makes me think it is time for me to learn to be okay with letting go of somethings that don’t serve me well, and to know that God will make the beautiful bow for me somewhere along the way.

• Yes wouldn’t it be nice to say this situation is not uplifting me or I started this and I really need to finish it…just work through it all. Especially when you run into the situation of starting so many things and not doing well cause too much is going on. Got to let go, got to let go, got to let go or like Nike says “just do it”!
  Got to remember Jesus already did the hard part.

• I quit to easily. I try to hold it out but my ego and patience often help the decision.

• Hi Nicki,
  Love your book “5 Habits of a Woman Who Doesn’t Quit”. Haven’t read it all as yet. I admire your persistence
  in trying to do it all even if its hard.
  Once I’m determined to do something I do follow through.
  After the loss of my husband in ’06, I had proceeded to a habit that has set me back in my finances due to my grieving not having him in my life any longer. I had become “an addicted shopper”, mostly to buying very expensive clothing , the more I bought gave me happiness until my CC was maxed out.
  Gave my situation to the Lord and asked Him to release me from spending.
  The next day, I was completely free from shopping, its only been 6 weeks but I am totally Healed .No longer any desire , He has changed me, without Him, I could have done it.

• I quit all the time. It’s easy-and I still look for the easy way out. But I hate myself for it.