Welcome back to the 16th episode of the Hard Thing Podcast! Today, I give you 9 ways to avoid giving up. First, we talk about this week’s Instrument of Change: *** INSTRUMENT OF CHANGE This week’s instrument of change is to plan your workouts ahead of time in order to maximize your fitness regime. I do this on Saturday’s or Sunday’s on a plain composition notebook. Simple and effective. *** In today’s episode, we talk about 9 ways to avoid giving up. These are strategies you can use in order to help yourself keep a positive attitude and keep mentally moving forward. Here are the 9 Things: 1. Maintain Discipline 2. Link your Current Actions to your Long Term Goal 3. Reach out to Your Support Network for Feedback 4. Expect the Waves 5. Keep Perpetual Momentum 6. Take a Break 7. Be Grateful 8. Eliminate Giving up as an Option 9. Minimize Negative Consequences *** In the show, we also talk about our new show sponsor, Audible. They are a premiere audiobook platform that offers over 180,000 different titles you can listen to from your Iphone, Android or any other device. Audible is offering listeners of The Hard Thing Podcast a free Audiobook and a free 30-day trial. To take advantage of this, go to audibletrial.com/thehardthingpodcast to get signed up today . *** ACTION ITEMS: 1. Don’t Give Up *** Thank you so much for listening to the podcast. I really appreciate it because I couldn’t keep this going without you. Let’s go back to the deal I made you earlier. Did you find value from listening to this episode? If yes then: 1. Share the podcast with one person who could really use it. 2. Reach out to me on Facebook and Instagram. Let me know how the podcast is going. 3. Leave a rating and a review. 4. Subscribe to the podcast so you don’t miss any episode. We are on Google Play, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify. 5. Check out the blog. 6. Support the Podcast. Go to anchor.fm/thehardthing/support and donate to help us make better content. Again thanks so much for listening, and stay tuned to next week. Keep doing Hard Things, and Keep Overcoming Average. — Support this podcast: thehardthindpodcast.com