Eliminating The Option of Staying At Your Current Job Is Half Of The Battle

I want to change career fields and staying at my current position; which is so demanding and not enjoyable; I hardly can find time to pursue my interests in the new career field. 

I’m trying my best but staying at my current job is just not an option anymore.

~Worker Living in SLOVENIA

Once we KNOW we can eliminate the option of staying at our current job then we are more than half way there.

Even though making the DECISION to “Just Quit” is only one Step it is the most important Step.

  Until you make that DECISION nothing happens. You stay stuck.

Once you make that decision things will open up…ideas, your mind, doors, support, new opportunities, peace, the way you see your current job…being able to eliminate the option of staying is a big step.

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

Today’s Worker Lives In Slovenia

• It’s in Europe
• Official Language – Slovenian
• Currency: Euros
• Land of caves and forest (lots of forest…half the country is forest), brown bears, horses, and traffic jams of tractors (it has more tractors per person than any other country)
• Slovenians eat Dormice
• Has the Worlds Oldest Grape Vine – 400 years old

 

 

Don't Let Any J-O-B Kill Your Soul...Honor Your Soul Today

This job makes my soul shrivel into a tiny, angry, bitter little ball of cynicism.  It is negatively affecting the rest of my life. It is a very unhealthy environment and a terrible way to spend so much of my time.

~Worker Living in VIRGINIA

Today, I will honor myself and my soul. 

I will not let this or any job kill my soul.

My soul.

Say that:  “My soul.”

When you say it concentrate on how your body feels.

It tingles and responds….it’s not My soul; it’s My Soul.

Wow…honor your Soul today.

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

 

You Can Get What You Need While You Are Miserable...Play Your Hand Well...

I feel stuck in my job and my career. I’ve been plotting this years ago, but I was waiting to get some things I needed (loans, a surgery paid through the healthcare, etc.). Now I’ve got all I need. It’s time to quit and start over.           

~Worker Living in COLOMBIA SOUTH AMERICA

We don’t have to just sit there and be miserable.

We can get what we need while we are being miserable.

If we know what we need: be it a degree, a certification, surgery or the magical five-year mark for 401K’s and pensions: then we stay.

WHILE we stay we plot our path.

We work the Steps.

We perfect our plan.

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

Today’s Worker Lives in Colombia South America:

Official Language: Spanish

Currency: Colombia Pesos

Has both a Pacific and Caribbean Coast

Roasted ants are eaten as a snack.

The worlds largest producer of Emeralds

There are 500 rock statues of animals – carved 5,000 years ago.

Gold, Gold, Gold : Legend about a tribal chief called The Golden One, there’s a gold museum and a real golden poisonous frog that kills…

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…