Smoke and Mirror Organizations...You Have to Decide...Does This Path Have Heart?

My work has no purpose, it helps nobody, and I don’t believe that the organization really cares about the results. They are simply interested in getting grant money from the government and have no intention to use that money to develop a product. I also don’t think the management has any idea what they are doing.

~Worker Living in PENNSYLVANIA

Count yourself lucky if you’ve never worked for an organization that is just smoke and mirrors. 

It’s a shell game.  It’s not real. Of course you don’t know it until you are inside of the shell, that it’s just hollow inside. Some of us have had this experience. Some of us are living inside of this experience now. 

Once you know you are in a hollow organization; it’s like anything else in this life; it comes down to if you are going to continue to play the game of “not real, but they’ve got money to pay me” verses “not real, and I can’t do this anymore”. 

That’s basically it. Just a decision.

Our lives are just a series of decisions that we make moment-by-moment that end up becoming…our lives.  

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

P.S.

Googling about Robin Williams and other comics I found this graduation speech by Jim Carrey.  Once you get beyond the jokes in the beginning you will find great sage advice and an interesting picture that he drew.

 

Find Your Purpose...Contribute Your Verse

I have been a contractor for almost three years and I want a permanent position within the company. The Director and Manager of my group have known that I’ve wanted a permanent position for almost a year but they have failed to move on it or address it to me.

~Worker Living in TEXAS

It is sad, but unfortunately true that we might be in a post-job economy.

Many of us are working freelance.

Many are working project-to-project.

Many of us don’t have “middle class full-time jobs with healthcare and a pension”.  Many of us never will have this again.

If you know what you want; then it’s already there; you just have to move towards it.  Just clearly define what you are looking for and ask the universe to bring it your way. If you don’t know what you want; even if it comes your way; you might not recognize it.

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

…the powerful play goes on and YOU may contribute a verse…

Stilling The Mind To Calm The Panic Attacks

Every day I feel sick about going in there. 

I constantly have people talking about me. 

I have panic attacks and cannot sleep worrying that everyone hates me. 

I’m not the happy confident person I used to be.

~Worker Living in the UNITED KINGDOM

Today, I will tell myself that I will make it through this day.

Although I might be working with people who don’t like me and I don’t care for them, I know that in time things will change because life is about change.

I will take control of my thoughts by just watching my thoughts at first and recognizing if I am having a circular thought over and over again.

I will find a mantra (word or phrase) to calm my mind.

If I cannot think of anything else on this day I will repeat over and over again…peace, be still…until the panic attacks subside – again…peace, be still…

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

 

If Your Job Was A Romantic Relationship Would Your Go or Would You Stay?

If this was a romantic relationship, my friends and family would be  begging me to run. 

~Worker Living in NEW YORK

Today, if I were to look at my job like it was a romantic relationship would I go or would I stay?

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

P.S.  What if Tina hadn’t left Ike?  What if you don’t leave your job?  Remember “Just Quit” starts out as a decision that you make…THEN you start putting a plan together towards carrying out that decision…Let Go to Let Come…Simply The Best Life Might Be Waiting For You Too…

The Grand Plan for Your Life Is Good. Just Sing YOUR Song.

I’ve been at the same company for 11 years and going nowhere.

The work is not at all challenging, and so much is expected of us (with little in return).

I don’t care about the product we make or the work we do–it does not inspire me at all.

I detest Sundays, and just struggle through each week until I can make it to the weekend.

~Worker Living in NEW YORK

Today, I will think about the fact that this is my life.

I can no longer afford to go week-by-week just existing, just making it through the week, surviving.  I deserve more than this.

No one else is going to get me out of this. 

I have to make the effort to move forward. I have to do this for myself.  Even if things don’t go quite as fast or exactly as I plan at least I need to have a plan.

Every other escape plan may have failed but I cannot give up.

My plans might just be too small. Maybe there is a bigger plan.  Maybe there is a grander plan in the making.

No matter, whatever the plan, the grand plan for my life is good and I will actively work it.

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

Looking For A Leader? Look In the Mirror!

The company has gone in a direction I do not want to follow.

~Worker Living in SINGAPORE

“Just Quit” is about letting go of what is not working. 

If I know the direction the company is going in is not the direction that I want to go and I have decided that I do not want to follow, then I have just made a decision to be the leader of my life and destiny. 

I can decide to go in another direction.  

I need to determine the strategic plan for my life.

I can trust myself. 

I can trust the universe and allow the direction to emerge that is just right for me.

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

Today’s Workplace Situation is from Singapore:

• Continent: Asia
• Official Language: Mandarin Chinese
• Currency: Singapore dollars
• Singapura means “Lion City”
• Three Things You Won’t Find in Singapore because they are illegal: Spitting in Public, Litter, and Chewing Gum

 

Make Everyday a Marathon of Things That You Enjoy Doing

My job is taking its toll on me physically and emotionally.

Every day is like a never ending marathon of things that you never enjoyed doing.

~Worker Living in the PHILIPPINES

We can run. 

We can run, but we can’t hide.

We can’t hide when we feel like it is day in and day out of a “marathon of things that we don’t enjoy doing”.

It’s our lives.

We can run towards a fulfilling life and lifestyle.

So, today, start running in THAT direction.

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

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P.S. Today’s Entry is from the Philippines

• Official Language: Filipino
• Currency: Philippine Pesos
• Philippines is the country, but is people are called Filipinos.
• The Philippines is 7,107 islands (that’s a lot of islands)
• It is nickednamed the text capital of the world because about 400 million text messages are sent every day.