the zurkie show - why everyone needs to quit

Episode Date: December 21, 2024

successful people don't quit... wrong. they know when it's time to quit, maybe you should too. https://linktr.ee/thezurkieshow

Don't let anyone tell you that quitting is a bad thing. If you gave it your all and you realized it's not for you, how is that a bad thing? If someone were to ask me, do you remember the day that your childhood dream was crushed? I would tell them, yes, in a heartbeat. I know the day. I was playing soccer. I had gone on this incredible journey of wanting to be a better soccer player. I had made improvements in my first year, a high school.

I played really, really well, and I wanted to play professionally. That was my dream. As I got older, I knew, okay, maybe I didn't have what it took to be the next Bellingham. But I knew that I could be good. Maybe I could play in college. I'm at this college showcase with a team that I was trying out for. And I'm playing and everything was just going wrong. I had terrible stage fright

I couldn't find my footing and every mistake I made was just bad it just got worse and worse and worse The coach got so frustrated that he pulled me off the field He's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, I don't know

I'm just, it's not my day I guess And I remember the look in his eyes When he told me this It was very It was very cold And it was very sincere And I feel like he told me this because he saw a part of him in me.

And he said, you really got to decide if you're going to play. And I'm like, what? If I'm going to play what? Like CDM or CM? Like what position? When? Like how I'm going to play? And he says, no.

You really got to decide if you want to play this sport. I had spent at that point, I would say like a good eight, seven years of my life trying to improve, to get better. And as I think a lot of us know in youth sports, it's, it's hard. It's really hard. You had this dream. You want to be a professional whatever, football player, basketball player. You want to be a professional golfer. It looks so beautiful. But the truth of the matter is that moment made me really realize a lot of things. And it made me reflect. And what it really made me realize was this it's time to stop the journey for me becoming a professional football player was over how bro you're not supposed to quit you're not supposed to quit when you really really love something when you feel like

that is your thing you are going to make it by any means and you know you're good at it but to me this. It was just a dream. Let's be real. It was just a dream. I didn't have what it took. And that conversation with that coach, I hated that. I hated it. I didn't like the fact that he told me the truth. Because when I really thought about it, anyone who would have been in the position of I am going pro no matter what, they would have heard that and be like, let me prove you wrong. Let me prove you wrong, but I didn't. I had more fun and I had more energy towards learning how to edit videos, towards learning how to be a craftsman, towards learning how to be a filmmaker.

I just had more energy towards that. And I knew that my soccer dreams, it was time to stop. It was just time to stop trying to stop. trying to lie to myself that it was going to happen and that I wanted it because I didn't. I didn't want it. When you're playing

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they'll help you find your path to the Olympics. Let's see what you've got. Sign up for free at rbc training ground.ca. If you're in a field where you're not, you just, you don't have the it factor, that determination, that grit, it's hard to keep going. And don't get me wrong, I still play soccer to this day. I love soccer. It is my favorite sport, but I just didn't love it enough to go pro. I just I just didn't. I just wasn't good enough. And at a certain point, I had to realize that stopping and quitting was okay. It was fine. Did it hurt my ego? Yes, but I still went into the rest of my high school years playing soccer, the rest of my club years, but let me just have fun. Because I don't have what it takes. I'm not willing to commit that time. It is just not something I want to genuinely do. And a lot of us will come to this kind of position in our lives. Not once, but many times, many times. You will try something, you will learn that you are good at it, but you will learn very quickly

that there are people that are way better than you, way better than you. And that will either motivate you to keep exploring your talent and get to their level, or that will make you realize it's time to stop. It's time to stop. Or you'll realize that you want it to do it as a hobby. that you just want to have fun with it. And that's great. I had some incredible memories playing I Am Soccer at the University of Georgia.

I loved it. It was so fun. But I knew that I wasn't going to be playing on no club team. I wasn't going to be playing no professional. It's just not me. I wasn't good enough. And this decision to stop single-handedly the best decision I made in my life. Well, one of them.

There's levels. There's a lot of really good decisions I've made. There's a lot of really bad decisions I've made. But realizing that it was time to stop and the energy that I could spend, I could use elsewhere, right? The energy that I had for soccer that I was putting in, going to two trainings a day, trying to do, you know, learn how to do a Robona perfectly so it goes upper top bins. Like that same energy I could use it on learning the things that I actually felt like, hey, I'm good at this and I can be generational at this. and I want you to do the same because the sooner you realize this

the sooner that you realize that maybe there's things that you need to stop the sooner you have the freedom to start new things and to get really good at new things and maybe it's the opposite maybe you're doing something artistic and you actually are like six, seven and you should be in the league

maybe this is your calling to try that maybe it's time to stop maybe it's time to switch the angle If you've been trying something and it's not working and you see people are like, well, you got to try a different angle. I wasn't always making yapp sessions. For a long time, I was trying to make funny videos and it just, it wasn't clicking. I realized, all right, maybe it's time to stop. Maybe I got to, you know, go back to the drawing board and find something that I actually really like and share that.

Maybe you got to try it out. Maybe you just need to quit. And don't let anyone tell you that quitting is a bad thing. If you gave it your all and you realized it's not for you, how is that a bad thing? You did the thing you were supposed to do. You tried it. You tried it. You were successful at it.

That's great. It's a beautiful thing. But at some point, maybe you lose passion for it. maybe you realize it just wasn't for you. It's a beautiful life when you really start to be honest with yourself and you start to look through the lenses of what you can gain and not what you can lose. Because when I decided, I'm like, soccer is just not, it's not it for me. It was hard.

Like, listen, I mean, I wanted to rep this badge during the Euros, you know, standing on the field next to Levondovsky and Boschikovsky. I had this dream of that. But it's just like there was no work that was willing to back that. There was none of that. It was like, oh, well, one day. But like, I was sitting at 16, 17. I wasn't playing anything exceptionally.

And I was playing against people who I knew were just out of my league. They had spent years noticing that they had a talent and developing it. Rose and lasagna, medium power, 15 minutes. Sounds like Ojo time. Let's play. Feel the fun with Play Ojo. The online casino with all the latest slot and live casino games. What you win is yours to keep with no wagering requirements, instant payouts, and no minimum withdraws.

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Concern about your gambling or that of someone close to you. Call 16-531-2600 or visitconX Ontario.ca. And everyone's on their own time, but sometimes the best thing you can do is take the hint and realize that it's time to stop. It's not working. That's fine. Let's go back to the drawing board. It's one thing. You wanted to play lacrosse in college and you didn't make the cut.

That's cool. Let's find something different that you're passionate about, something that you love equally. It won't happen overnight. You got to spend time on it. That's life. But realizing when it's time to hang up the boots, It will save you a lot of time. It'll save you a lot of energy, a lot of heartbreak, and a lot of lying.

That's when you're honest with yourself. I don't want to do this. I can't do this. But what I can do is put all of my energy into this thing because I love this thing. When you get on that wavelength, it's wraps. It's over. And maybe you're doing the thing right now and you're realizing that is your thing. And if that's the case, you keep going.

You keep doing it. but if you're wishy-washy and you think like, this isn't all that is planned for me in this life, it's time to stop. It is time to stop. Maybe it's time to stop taking it super seriously. Maybe it's time to take a step away from it. One of the best things I did was my junior year of high school.

I actually played water polo for one year. And I loved water polo. This is how I knew soccer was not it for me as well. I played water polo for a year. And I was like, why didn't I do that from my first year? high school. I loved it that much. It's worth a try. It's totally worth a try. Damn, fast boy. Don't feel guilty about quitting. Don't feel guilty about saying I'm going to stop doing this. I'm going to try something else because that's how we learn about who we are and what we want to

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