How do you know when you should keep going versus when it makes sense to cut your losses and try something new? It’s a difficult decision most entrepreneurs and creatives have faced along their journey and so we asked some brilliant folks from the community to share their thoughts.

Kim Kong | Performance Artist & Content Creator

Giving up is not an option unless the pursuit doesn’t make you happy anymore. As long as you’re enjoying the process then you continue refining necessary skills, stay hungry to learn new techniques for improving your craft, and re-strategize the plan of actions to achieve your goals. If you consistently experience feelings of hopeless-ness, negative stress, and incompetency, then it’s probably time to let a project go because you don’t find joy in pursuing it anymore. You have to resonate with your goals and projects to keep going. Read more>>

VButterfly La Mariposa | Disc Jockey

I listen to my heart. When my heart is not longer in it and I’m no longer doing it because I love it and it’s some thing that I am 100% behind it then I know it’s time to transition into something else. Sometimes we have to give up some things in order to make rooms for new things to come in. We cannot hold on to everything forever especially if it’s no longer making your heart palpitate Read more>>

Kyle Chin | Filmmaker & Martial Artist

Thats an easy one. There is no giving up. Period. Once the passion remains i will always keep doing what i love. If the passion goes then i wont be giving up, I’ll be refocusing. The market matters, income matters and those can affect a pivot but there are always ways to reinvent and reimagine your approach if your passion is strong. Read more>>