BE Awesome: You Are Not Your Job. You Are Not Your Title. You Are Not Your Salary. You Are Awesome.

This job has turned me into a sad horrible person.

I used to be so awesome and now I feel like nothing.

~Worker Living in NEW YORK

You KNOW you are awesome. 

This job can’t make you not awesome when you are.

Say it:   “I AM awesome.” 

One more time: “I AM awesome.”

You are awesome.

You are not your job.  You are not your title.  You are not your salary. 

You are you and you are awesome.

Today, BE who you are…Awesome.

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

P.S. – Ethymology of  the word Awesome…today be in Awe of yourself…

awesome (adj.) 1590s, “profoundly reverential,” from awe (n.) + -some (1). Meaning “inspiring awe” is from 1670s; weakened colloquial sense of “impressive, very good” is recorded by 1961 and was in vogue from after c.1980.

Having Faith Means Trusting That The Plan For Your Life Is Working Out...Even Now...

This job doesn’t interest me.

The field doesn’t interest me.

I don’t see myself anymore with this company.

My work life balance is completely out of whack. I live in one country and my wife and kids in another. 

I can’t sleep at all!

I am stressed, spaced out and miserably down all the time.

I lost my faith in myself.

~Worker Living in the NETHERLANDS

Some of us have lost faith in ourselves. 

Lost faith in our abilities. 

Lost faith in our skills. 

Lost faith in our decision-making. 

Lost faith in being able to get ourselves out of our work situation. 

You have to have faith in something. 

If you can’t have faith in yourself have faith that there is a plan for your life and that plan is working out.

Have faith that even though you can’t see a way out; that a way will come.

Have faith that you will figure out what you need to do next. 

Have faith that you have come this far in life and that your journey is not yet over.

You will pull through this. This too will pass.

Have faith that everything changes and so will this time in your life.

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

Today’s Workplace Situation is from the Netherlands:

• It is in Europe
• Official Language is Dutch
• Currency is Euros
• Netherlands mean low country because half of the land is below sea level
• The Dutch own twice as many bikes as automobiles
• Amsterdam is the capital and it is famous for its canals and the skinny tall houses that are built along the canals.
• The Dutch are the world’s tallest nationality and they are famous for tulips
• There are a lot of windmills in the Netherlands that are used for power:

 

Stand Strong and Go Through It. Be Like A Tree.

I hate working in fast food and I feel miserable just thinking about it. I get abused by customers and the management there is terrible. I want out. Straight away.

~Worker Living in AUSTRALIA

There is only one way out of our situations – we have to go through them. 

We know we have to go through it. 

We might feel like we want this to end now…straight away…but it is not going to end until it has run its course. 

We know what it feels like to be miserable…we might even be miserable today.

Just feel miserable today.

There will come a day that you will feel joy.

When that day comes, then feel joy that day.

Stand strong and go through it.

You will get to the other side.

You are strong enough to make it through this…you are and you will.

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

Today’s Workplace Situation is from Australia:

• It is in Oceania
• Official Language is English
• Currency is Australian Dollars
• They say “Gid Day”
• It gets its name “Land Down Under” from the fact that the whole country is south of the equator
• Going on a “walkabout” you will find the world’s largest group of coral reefs, largest rock and largest cattle station
• It has 7,000 beaches…that’s a lot of beaches!

Being Too Stressed to Sleep is a Wake-up Call You Need to Heed

My boss hates me.

I am de-motivated.

I feel too stressed to sleep.

~Worker Living in JAPAN

It doesn’t matter where you live; a sleepless night in Japan or in Seattle is still a sleepless night.

If you can’t sleep then your body is trying to get the message to you: ”I’m under stress. I need for you to make a change in your life, and  listen to me.” 

Being too stressed to sleep is a wake-up call you need to heed.

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

Today’s Workplace Situation Comes From Japan:

• It is in Asia
• Official Language: Japanese
• Currency is Yen
• Sushi is a favorite food
• Mt. Fuji is a famous snow-capped volcano that last erupted in 1707
• Tokyo is the world’s most populated city  ~13 million
• Japanese train stations have “pushers” during rush hour. So many workers cram into the trains they need to push them in order to shut the doors. 

 

Anything is Possible. Really, it is.

I hate the micromanaging bureaucratic culture.

I also especially hate waking up in the mornings.

I don’t want another job because it will just be the exact same thing as the one I have.

~Worker Living in CALIFORNIA

If we know it’s not another j-o-b for us then we are making progress.

It doesn’t have to be another job like we have worked year-after-year-after-year. 

It might be that we start freelancing. 

We might consult.

We might start a business.

We might write. 

We might do many things.

We have to brainstorm. (Some of us brainstorm for our jobs, why not for ourselves?)

Start a mind-map. Generate ideas. 

Anything is possible. Really, it is.

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

Don’t Let Anyone Cut The Wings of Your Dreams

Ah actually, I did quit. I’m taking this survey out of curiosity.

After almost fifteen years in manufacturing I’ve only managed to work my way up to $15/hr. I am intelligent, well-spoken and extremely well written. I am analytical, capable of complex abstract thought, have keen spatial visualization and problem solving skills. I could only take so much of being reminded of these things by co-workers and engineers without due compensation.

The final straw came when I was passed up for a gainful opportunity within another department which I was an ideal candidate for, because of my apparent value to my current department. That was it. It was already bad enough that I didn’t love my job, being overlooked in lieu of a lesser qualified candidate because my manager would not let me go was a direct insult to my integrity as a human being.

~Worker Living in FLORIDA

Today be fair to yourself. 

Live up to your capabilities. 

Don’t let anyone cut the wings of your dreams.

You have a purpose and you are valuable.

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

 

To Find Your Purpose You Have To First Find Your Gift...What Are You Naturally Good At Doing?

I hate the profession. It doesn’t work with my values or my strengths.  It makes me  feel low and takes away everything I like about myself.

~Worker Living in the UNITED KINGDOM

If we are going to work through the “Just Quit” Steps then we need to know ourselves.

We need to know our strengths, our weakness, our values, what we like and what we don’t like.

We need to know ourselves.

Once we know ourselves our purpose will appear.

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