13274: But Sometimes Winners DO Quit

Raw transcript:

How about if I take a moment and say
something really, really provocative and
possibly unpopular.
Uh, I totally disagree with winners
never quit. Winners do sometimes quit on
purpose
and that may mean you or I quit. Let’s
talk about that in this episode of the
VO Heroes podcast.
I bet we’d all love to have everything
nice and neat and packaged and universal
when it comes to uh how we pursue our
personal lives, our social lives, our
careers. Um but it’s not it’s messy.
It’s imperfect. It’s human. And one of
the phrases that we’ll hear all the time
is winners never quit. You know,
sometimes we hear the the correlary
version, winners never quit and quitters
never win. And yeah, really, okay,
that’s never true. Never ever ever true.
Our lives are years long and it probably
only takes a couple of weeks before we
quit at something that we don’t like or
that is, you know, sucking the soul out
of our lives or is is painful or is so
overwhelming and confusing that we can’t
figure it out even with the help of a
mentor or a coach or a consultant.
I just want you to be able to give
yourself the permission to assess the
amount of effort that something is
taking, the amount of joy you either are
or are not getting from that pursuit.
And giving yourself the permission to
say, “F this. I I don’t want to do this
anymore.” And I’m talking to you if
you’re a performer. I’m talking to you
if you’re trying to learn something
technical. I’m always in your corner.
I’m always encouraging you to just give
it a shot. Give it a good shot, a a
healthy deep shot if you really want to
get something done, if you really want
to pursue something in a particular way.
But if if if it is hurting you, if it is
making you constantly sad and depressed
and just like you just don’t like it and
you’ve exhausted all your possibilities
of getting help doing it, you know, one
of the options is walking away. And
winners do walk away. It’s bringing a
tear to my eye because I think some
people just beat themselves up and feel
like total, you know, nimrod failures
when they go, I can’t do this. I don’t
want to do this anymore. It’s not for
me. Look at the people that leave our
businesses that leave voice over or on
camera work or stage work or writing.
They just leave because they don’t like
the fact that we get rejection far more
often than we get acceptance.
We rarely book things. uh you know there
there’s all this stuff that is
constantly pounding on our our
well-being and our sense of of
self-worth.
I urge you to be honest with yourself to
be careful about trying to be superhuman
and know that winners do sometimes quit
and that’s kind of what defines them on
one side of the equation as winners.
I’d love to know what your thoughts are
on this. I’m not trying to discourage
anybody from quitting a passion,
quitting the pursuit of this work that
that I love, that I know you love. Um,
but I do want you to know that it is an
option and an option that some people
need to consider
when they’re just at the ends of their
ropes. You know, if you’re just trying
it and you’re playing pity with it and
you that’s to me not giving yourself a
chance. But again, at the other end of
the spectrum, this whole winners never
quit, quitters never win thing, you can
safely discard that into the waste
basket to the side of your desk. Tell me
what your thoughts are on this uh on
vohheroes.com. Give me comments below.
Give me a discussion. Tell me what
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that. I’m David H. Lawrence the 17th. I
thank you so much for watching and for
listening and I will see you in the next
episode of the VO Heroes podcast.

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