The key to quiting your shitty job

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.