Go ahead, quitting is an option, do it with your job, your relationship, your adventures, your career or whatever you want. But before making a hasty decision, ask yourself: Why am I going to do it? Are you going to quit to avoid something or are you going to do it to create something?
This may not be considered as part of traditional productive thinking, but let's not tell ourselves lies, it is a viable option for everyone. In the end a lot of people do it, and they do it all the time, either because they are tired of their boss or job, the circumstances that occur in personal and social life. These all seem like acceptable reasons to throw the towel, don't they?
Let's look at the possibilities: Quitting to run away and quitting to create. Where that decision comes from determines not only a trend in how you project your life, also whether you do it for a reason that will take you with constant motivation to the place you want to be, the one you dream of, or whether it will only help you run a couple of miles while finding something different to run away from.
In the first case, quitting to flee, we use the world and the 'outside' as a burden of guilt and in that sense we function from the effect, not the cause side. When we are on that side of the equation we stop being real owners of our decisions, of our choices and finally of who we really are and that is a power you don't want to stop having. When we let 'the other', that 'the outside' have in us its kingdom, we are ceasing to perceive and receive our dreams to go after something that very rarely endures.
On the other hand, by quitting to create you are making a choice full of power. This decision leads you to redirect your precious time, resources, energy and enthusiasm towards something that is more aligned with something bigger than you: your dreams. Really working for them is what allows you to get up every day so early and go to sleep as late as you can and want to do it, and continue doing it without feeling a drop of tiredness, because what moves you is not only a monthly or fortnightly salary, it is something bigger than that.
"Success is not the result of a
spontaneous combustion. You have to
turn you on first."
Fred Shero
Sometimes that change comes with many limitations that arise as insecurities and fear of losing something that can in many cases be away of moments, people, and situations that could be moving away from what you really want. This is why you must understand each step of the process as a teaching, know which paths to take, which not, which decisions to take and which not, what to really give up on, what not.
It is relevant to note that giving up to the moment does not imply doing so to experiences. It is very important to be wise with these decisions and not to allow a bad time or discouragement to take over them. Take the time to approach the moment, situation or circumstance you want to give up with creativity, reframe the approach you are giving and find everything that said moment has taught you and what has left you; learn from it and, over all, enjoy it.
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