Cliche Boxing Metaphor?

It's not about getting knocked down. Hell, EVERYONE gets knocked down but your life can be made or broken by what actions you take after you get knocked to the mat. In that moment you need to decide what you are going to do, this is harder when it happens during the worst moment of your life but it is important CRUCIAL. Do you stay down and wait for the count out or do you get back up and keep fighting?

You and you alone bear the burden for your decision here. It is easy to blame the person or thing that knocked you over and some people blame the 'counter' while being counted out. But those are just decisions you made to stay down and blame whatever you could. Me? I am a quitter from way back. In fact I have quit on almost everything I have ever started including my writing 'career.' What is worse is that I have blamed the entity that knocked me down for my quitting in the past. This doesn't make me feel like a winner, it only makes me feel like a quitter, and I hate feeling like a quitter.

I am making changes and they start with me.