There Are No Mistakes, Only Lessons and Messages

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

I need a change because of health reasons. I’m feeling trapped and very unhappy and I just blew a chance at a job transfer.

~Worker Living in ILLINOIS

There are no mistakes.

You haven’t blown it.

If you didn’t take the transfer, didn’t do well on the interview, didn’t get the job offer, or the promotion, or whatever you DIDN’T get; it wasn’t for you. 

There are no mistakes only lessons and messages. ~ Ridea Richardson

Are You Living Comfortably But Hardly Living At All?

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

I am stagnate. My current job no longer aligns with the steps I need to take to fulfill my goals and pursue life and happiness, other than to pay my monthly bills. These bills are relatively small, as is my income. Most other jobs would fulfill this need. 

I have a long commute and work full-time. I need for my work + commute to be less hours to free up time for educational, business, and self-improving pursuits; or to find a job with a time commitment that aligns with these goals. Preferably, both.

Alternatively, I may be able to structure a lifestyle where I educate myself and pursue my own business, without ‘working’ at all. 

Now that I dislike my inconsistent commute, I may be fired any time anyway. My superiors are not competent, and I do not enjoy my repetitive job duties. I am not positively challenged in my job, and my job is a large percentage of my life, therefore I am living ‘comfortably’ but hardly living at all. 

~Worker Living in CALIFORNIA

Something to Think About Today:

Are you “living comfortably, but hardly living at all”?

Is there a lifestyle you can envision where you don’t have to “work” at all?

 

Microsoft Had a Huge Vision...Why Shouldn't You?

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

My job is absolute misery. I’m working in a field I don’t want to be in, with colleagues I don’t want to associate with and with a condescending joke of a manager.

I want the freedom to pursue my interests with a focus on landing my dream career.

I want to work for it as much as I want it to work for me.

~Worker Living in the UNITED KINGDOM

What to Do Today:

Today, imagine being in your dream career, job, profession, or business endeavor.

Where are you?

What are you doing?

Who is around you?

You have to be able to see it before you can create it. 

Once you can see it you can create it.

P.S.

What does it mean to have a vision?  It needs to be VISUAL. For example: below is Microsoft’s early vision: In 1975, Gates and Allen form a partnership called Microsoft. Like most start-ups, Microsoft begins small, but has a huge vision—a computer on every desktop and in every home. During the next years, Microsoft begins to change the ways we work.

(Now think about it… Microsoft’s vision basically HAPPENED…we are now on to laptops, tablets and i-phones…but…before all of that there was Microsoft and desktop computers.)

You need a vision too…and it might as well be HUGH…why not?

GO BIG or GO HOME

The Shell Must Break Before The Bird Can Fly

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

Something in me is going to break so badly I won’t be able to pull back up from it.      

~Worker Living in AUSTRALIA

Something To Think About Today:

Some days we feel broken. 

When we feel so broken, so very broken, it feels like we are not going to make it.

We WILL make it. 

Broken is letting go of what is. 

Broken is destroying what is. 

Broken allows something new to be created.

A new job.

A new idea.

A new business.

A new passion. 

A new outlook.

A new you.

TODAY Start Living Up To Your Potential

You are reading from the book “Just Quit” & Live  

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

I feel that my potential is being wasted and I am being relegated to a clerical job.

In short, I am not satisfied with the job content and on top of it I am not clear of my future path.

~Worker Living in the UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Today’s Reflection…something to think about & do:

If today we find ourselves doing less than we know we are capable of; for whatever reason; we will think of the positive.

For every minute we are not asked to work up to our potential (while we are doing the mind-numbing clerical type tasks) we will THINK about our future path.

Work the “Just Quit”Steps during the down time.

If they only want 20% we will give them what they want and use the other 80% of our brainpower and capabilities for ourselves.

P.S.

There really aren’t any excuses…NO ONE can hold you back…EXCEPT…YOURSELF…

Get Out of Your Own Way...Stop Making Excuses

 You are reading from the book  “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

I strongly believe in not doing something you don’t enjoy or are not interested in at all.

I want to start my own business and can’t because of my sh*tty job.

I just want freedom.

~Worker Living in the UNITED KINGDOM

Today’s Meditation:

Who is stopping us, but us? 

We need to get out of our own way. 

 If you want to do something…then do it…what is stopping you?

 

BELIEVE...Money CAN Flow Your Way

You are reading from the book  “Just Quit” & Live 

Q: Why do you want to quit your job EVEN if you don’t have another job lined-up?

I’m over this job.  I’ve been here for two years. It’s not in the field I want to end up in. I can budget for a while and live ok. 

~Worker Living in AUSTRALIA

Today’s Meditation:

Today, Work Step 2 – Dealing with Finances.

Start your spreadsheet, review your spreadsheet, move some money from checking to savings, figure out how much money you have on credit cards, look at your 401K statement, figure out what you can live without…today work on Step 2…EVEN if you have a mountain of debt.

P.S.

Working on Step 2 is a crucial step in your “Just Quit” plan.

Most people STAY stuck or go from job-to-job-to job because they never buckle down and save or get access to six months of basic expenses.  YOU CAN DO THIS.  I did it and YOU CAN DO IT TOO.

One of the greatest lessons I learned from one of my mentors (he happened to be a wealthy self-made millionaire — so those type of folks you listen to because they did something that worked)…his advice: ALWAYS keep $100 in your wallet. He said you should do this because you will NEVER feel broke. I’ve realized over the years that it will attract like energy…money energy. It even worked for me as late as yesterday. When I went to the mailbox I opened an envelope…inside…an unexpected check.

If you want to get started on working Step 2 just start with that $100.  Keep it in your wallet or purse.  DO NOT SPEND IT, just keep it there.

What if you don’t have $100?  Well, starting this weekend EVERYTIME you begin to spend even a dollar on something that is NOT a necessity, don’t do it.  Find a hiding place in your wallet to put this “extra” money until you get to $100.

Focus on keeping $100 in your wallet… then watch as the magic starts to happen.

Also, here is a good book on how money is just energy.