Work Hard and NEVER give up

As all of the students and teachers are getting ready to get out of school for the summer, it is really easy to start slacking, and not finish strong but that doesn't work. You have to finish strong! My dad always told me to finish strong, and our family motto was "Yoder's finish strong" Even though we haven't really said anything like that lately, I still try and make that what I live by if you will. It's really tempting to not finish your work and then blame it on something or someone else saying that it is their fault. I know for me, that if I don't get my work do I want to make some excuse saying that I didn't get it done for a reason, good reason that is.

Work hard, and never give up an inch too short because that will come and haunt you for the rest of your life. If you are able to finish something strong, you will leave with a feeling of knowing that you did all that you could/needed, etc. When I was a 6th grader, we ran laps for gym class, well my brother, who is two years older than me, would always sprint the last lap as hard as he could. So, I thought why not, by the end of the year, four out of the six of us sprinted that last lap, and we were the ones who wanted to work hard and succeeded. That always gave me the feeling of finishing strong, because, sure the laps weren't hard, they were our warm up, but finishing them as strong as we could didn't necessarily make me feel better at the time, but not even halfway through, I knew that it was helping me get in the correct mindset for what we would be doing. Now, every time we run laps in the gym, I sprint the last one, and the other kids who are around started doing the same. I know that even if they're not sure why we always sprint the last lap, they'll figure it out, and we have my older brother to thank for that!
Next, NEVER give up! I know all of you have heard that so many times that you can't count, but please never ever stop trying. You may hit bumps in the road which force you to change the way you go about doing whatever it is that you are doing, but that doesn't mean you can stop, it just means you have to change a few things. As the picture above states  "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when the gave up." Thomas A. Edison What does that mean? Well, if you give up, you are stopping all of the chances of you finishing. If you give up, and then look back in 10 or 15 years, and see that if you would have only kept going you were so close to finishing, you're not going to be happy with yourself. so save yourself from that grief. Don't give up, and you won't see that you were so close, but never finished. That is its ties in with finishing strong!
So, what's the challenge for the week?
Finish everything you start and finish it better than you started.
Good luck, and have a wonderful week!