Yo, today's QOD is this is what you signed up for you have no choice

here we go

to

me

batter

Ron

batter

point where I couldn't do it. It was it was too difficult. I couldn't I couldn't

organize all the information. It was just too complicated. I couldn't do it. And I've

been trying for months. I probably missed multiple deadlines. And I was sitting at

my computer and I decided that I had to give up. I couldn't do it. And so I got up

and went for a walk. And I was literally planning my exit. I was going through

the steps. I was going through the checklist of quitting. I knew that I have to

give my advance back to the publisher because technically I'm in breach. I knew

that I would be humiliated. But I was preparing myself for it that I would get

over it. I was also rationalizing that it was okay to quit. I told myself there

are thousands, 10,000 books published every single year. No one will miss this

one book. And I literally went through the steps to prepare myself for what I

had to do to quit. I'm not sure why I did this. But I called a friend of mine who

at the time was in the Air Force Special Forces. And I don't even think I

said hello when he picked up the phone. I simply asked the question, what do you

do when you can't complete the mission? And as is his habit, he just started

...