A friend recently told me, “I feel like quitting. I’m tired of being told things will work out in the future, that relief is out there somewhere. Just give me the keys. Drive away. Leave everything behind.”

And then I told him the amazing turnaround story of Edwin Booth, the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

If anyone could ever justify quitting, it was Edwin Booth.

Whatever hole or pit you’re in is not permanent.

Unless you want to stay there.

And many folks do.

The deeper the hole, the greater the resistance.

But anyone can climb out if they open three hatches.