My brother in law was over during the holidays and it’s become a tradition for us to dust of my xbox 360 and enjoy a game of Nba 2k or Madden Football. (I can’t stand playing the computer so the only time I engage in video games is when I can play a real person… “in person.”)<\/p>\n
Well, every year is the same. He tends to beat me by about 40 points in Madden Football.<\/p>\n
And while he’s whooping on me, he loves to talk “mess” too! He’ll look over and say “ready to throw in the towel?” … “ready to give up?” … “want to start over?” … “you suck!” … “give up already!”<\/p>\n
And my answer is always the same. “NO.”<\/p>\n
And Sarah and I make sure to teach our kids to “NEVER GIVE UP… no matter how the odds are stacked against you.” <\/p>\n
NEVER GIVE UP.<\/p>\n
In fact, we have this little motto: “The Griggs’ Never Give Up.”<\/p>\n
(Jadyn, our oldest is so funny when she says it. She lowers her chin and puts on this deep voice… “Griggs Nevaaaa Give Up!”)<\/p>\n
I don’t care if it’s the biggest decision of my life… or a video game — the concept is the same.<\/p>\n
Being a musician ain’t<\/em> easy. Learning to train your fingers takes time. Things don’t come overnight. But I want to encourage you to NEVER GIVE UP.<\/p>\n Something led you to this. You want to do this. It may be a lifelong dream of yours, a passion. And like my brother in law, you may hear these whispers encouraging you to take an early defeat.<\/p>\n Don’t throw in the towel.<\/p>\n As they say, the best way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. Remember that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My brother in law was over during the holidays and it’s become a tradition for us to dust of my xbox 360 and enjoy a game of Nba 2k or Madden Football. (I can’t stand playing the computer so the only time I engage in video games is when I can play a real person… “in person.”) Well, every year is the same…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motivation-self-improvement","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"yoast_head":"\n