That's quitting too soon. Say you've been trying to use a budget for a couple of months. You've done all the math and kept track of both the money coming into your home and where you spend it. You've worked hard on this. Yet you always seem to get to the end of your money before the month is over.
Frustration sets in.
The temptation is to throw in the towel and give up. A perfectly understandable response. But it's the wrong answer. Look at it this way. Suppose you were driving to Disneyworld and about half way there you realized that you had made a wrong turn and had driven 50 miles off your planned route.