{"id":138,"date":"2007-12-24T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-24T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog1\/?p=138"},"modified":"2009-01-14T08:52:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-14T14:52:20","slug":"i-quit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/i-quit\/","title":{"rendered":"I quit!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just quit my job.<\/p>\n

Which might sound strange since I work for myself.<\/p>\n

I’m burned out – been working too hard, to the point where every waking and sleeping moment was about work. Everything blurred to the point that I forget what a day off looks like.<\/p>\n

The results got too important – I got attached to the outcome, and started to feel a lot of pressure to make things happen. (Which is ridiculous!)<\/p>\n

So I quit. At least for the next four days I’m only going to do what I want to do. As my good friend Nicole Daedone<\/a> said: “It just has to feel good”.<\/p>\n

If I don’t want to speak to groups – I won’t speak. If it feels like too much pressure to put the pitch and sales stuff together, I won’t worry whether I sell anything at the end of the speech. I’m done going for book endorsements unless they feel natural and fun. And I’ve chilled out about selling it to a publisher. (In my mind it’s already sold and published, and it will do how it’s going to do).<\/p>\n

I don’t have to earn any money in the next 12 months. I don’t have to sell one product. I don’t have to travel anywhere I don’t want to, or for longer than I want. I don’t have to hang out with anyone I don’t want to – regardless of the business opportunity they might bring. I don’t ~need~ to write a book, and if I do, I don’t need anyone to buy it.<\/p>\n

Being hyperfocused can be a gift. I get enormous things done in a short period of time. And…there’s balance.<\/p>\n

Will this last past Dec 27? I don’t know. But it’s feeling good right now, and I’m enjoying LOST and reading up on the environment.<\/p>\n

So I quit.<\/p>\n

I quit my own job.<\/p>\n

David<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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