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The key to quiting your shitty job

12/4/2013

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If you are uninspired by your job and want more out of life, I feel your pain. At one time I was in a job that was so bad it felt like indentured slavery! I had to work 70 hour weeks to just barely get my work done.   I've moved on to a much more tolerable day job, but deep down inside I know there is still a much more meaningful way to spend my time and energy. This post is all about how I am making it happen and how you can do the same.

By the time you finish reading and responding to this post, you'll be light years closer to quiting your job than you are right now, so lets get to it.

Most people focus on how they don't like their current situation.  All this will do is bring them more of their current situation.   Most people wake up every Monday morning and dread the week to come.  They count down the days of the week through Wednesday hump day until Friday afternoon finaly hits and their sacred weekend begins!

You'll always get more of what you think about, good or bad.  In other words, the universe will give you what is on your mind.  If you don't believe in the law of attraction, and you would rather think of it in more concrete tems, consider the following; You'll only bring about what you plan about, and you'll only plan about what you think about, therefore, you'll only bring about what you think about. 

If you spend your time thinking about what you 
DON'T want, you're not using your time productively to think of creative ideas to get what you DO want.  You need to spend time thinking about what you want to acheive so you can come up with a plan and start to take productive action towards acheivement.

The concept is inherently obvious and insanely simple to understand, but unforetunately most of us don't know ourselves well enough to know what we want.  So instead we spend our time and thoughts complaining about our current situation, resulting in perpetuating more of the same.

If you want to replace the time you currently spend at your uninspiring job, you first need to find a way to productively contribute to society while doing what you love.  The problem for most people is they don't know themselves well enough to know what they love.  If you don't know what you love, you can't even begin to build a business around it.  So instead you become frustrated and feel stuck in your current job. 

So let's start working on the first problem you need to tackle: Figuring out what you love.  It's the first step in leading an inspired life, and unforetunately most people skip it.  It's a simple task, but it's far from easy.  Getting to know yourself is
hard work. So while the following task may sound simple, understand you will have to go through it several times over several days to get the honest results you need.

In the comments below, write down your top 3 answers to the following 3 questions:

1.  What three things do you spend the majority of your time on during an average week day?

2.  What three things do you currently spend the majority of your time doing during a typical weekend?

3.  When you are alone in your car driving (probably to or from work), what three things do you most often think about?


Take your time and try to think of real examples where you have spent your time doing or thinking about the things in your response.  I'll explain the importance to your answers and continue with the process in next week's post.  We'll continue to explore how you can start a business doing what you really love.

Note - If you take the time to think through the three questions above and leave your responses in the comments, I will take the time to read through your responses and help you one on one through email to identify what you love.

8 Comments
Kevin link
12/5/2013 09:48:31 am

Hey Eric,

I think I have a pretty good idea of the direction I want to go in and where my passion is, but I'm interested to follow your exercise, so here are my answers:

1. Work, personal finance, entertainment
2. Activities with friends & family, personal finance, exercise
3. Travel, personal finance, activities with friends & family

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Eric Young link
12/5/2013 10:04:13 pm

Thank you for sharing Kevin! You'll have an email from me by the end of the day tomorrow. BTW - What do you currently do for work?

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Shelley
12/5/2013 08:34:30 pm

1. Work, Family, My business
2. Work, Building our house, My business
3. Building our house, Family and my business

Would love, love, love to take traditional/conventional work out of that equation!! :)

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Eric Young link
12/5/2013 10:31:26 pm

I will do everything I can to help you replace your current convention work with something you love! Check your email tomorrow for a response from me. What do you do for your current job? What parts of that job do you enjoy the most and what parts do you dislike the most?

From your facebook wall it looks like you are going through a difficult challange with your mother's health right now. Difficult challanges often help us learn more about ourselves. What you are going through is probably very painful. When you look back on this time in your life, I hope you are able to see a coresponding support (a silver lining) that came with your current experience.

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Alex link
12/6/2013 04:14:14 am

Hi Eric,

I love awareness games and so that's why I'm participating in this. I also love to support my fellow LYL fellows! I don't currently have a job or a source of income so I hope that this doesn't disqualify me.

1. Creating (blog posts, visual art, other writing) Learning (reading about career advice, podcasts on selling art, etc.) and the rest gets broken up into yoga/cooking/spiritual practice (meditating and exercises.)
2. The weekends are no different for me than weekdays.
3. How I will generate income, where I should focus more of my energy, and practicing opening up to inspiration.

Thanks, Eric.

In lovingkindness,
Alex

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Eric Young link
12/7/2013 02:08:24 am

Thanks for sharing Alex. I love your blog at http://kindnessville.com. Very few people create all the pictures in addition to writing all the content on their blog! After reviewing your responses above and reading your blog I emailed you a suggestion for a business that I think would fit you well. Hopefully it helps!

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Leaf
12/13/2013 10:30:51 pm

When you say "Most people focus on how they don't like their current situation." I completely agree. I work in manufacturing and the workers complain about various things. They don't like coming in on weekends, they don't like working the rail line, etc. For people working for me, and also other co-workers, I sometimes stop them and lay out my thoughts. If you take a job where working weekends is a requirement than you either need to accept this or move on to another job. Life is too short to be angry throughout your entire career. The thing that irritates me is the people get so indignant. How can you be so angry when you accepted the position? So when I talk to these people I say just that, don't worry about things that are unchangeable and take that time to enjoy your life. If you hate your job so much you are miserable every day you need to quit. Also here are my thoughts on question 1.

1. family, current events (reading web stories mostly tech, economics, survival news. Talking with co-workers about sports current events), I do not place actual work very high on this list. I strive to excel at my job and do. However after someone works at a job for over 3 years the actual job tasks become routine and take little of my critical thinking. I basically build enough systems and work smarter that job tasks become not very difficult.

Have more but I am a little rushed to get the kiddo to church concert practice.

Leaf

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Eric Young
12/14/2013 12:00:15 am

I'd love to hear the rest when you have a chance.

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