I saw a blog that said, “I will never run away until I achieve goal X.” I was falling behind before I achieved it.
It is difficult to correctly estimate the difficulty of achieving a goal. You realize later that you have chosen a goal that is too difficult. When you find yourself caught between the idea that “this is too difficult and I should make an easier goal” and the idea that “I declared in the past that I would not run away from this goal.
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