Quitter

Quitter is a blueprint to help you close the gap between your day job and your dream job, showing you simple steps you can take towards your dream without turning it into a nightmare.

Just earlier this week we learned from Jeff Goins that only 13% of people actually like to show up for work in the morning.

Yes, this terrible statistic needs changing, but hold your horses.

This does not mean you should just quit your job.

Jon says you should let your day job fuel your dream job, instead of quitting it. Quitting will likely lead you to 2 major problems:

You replace your boss with lots of mini bosses a.k.a your bills. Instead of just Mr. Smith yelling at you now have the water company, gas supplier, your landlords and several insurance companies banging down your door. That means you just changed who dictates your life, but not the fact itself. You put a serious strain on your relationships. Constantly being worried about money gives you a very negative, neurotic and aggressive mindset. This may lead you as far as destroying some of your most precious relationships, just because you yelled at your partner for leaving the light on one time too much.

Instead, keep your day job. Find meaning in it by helping your co-workers and trying to see the parallels to your dream job – there are always skills you can re-use.

This makes it less likely for you to jump at an opportunity that might seem okay, but isn’t actually what you truly want, or even worse, to take an opportunity because you have no other choice.

Hustle is the most important word, ever. At least if you ask Gary Vaynerchuk 🙂 It’s a word Jon uses a lot too, and it’s gotten really popular on social media as well. What it boils down to is putting in the time that is needed to reach your goals. But when should you actually do it? If you have a day job, that leaves only mornings and nights. Jon makes the ultimate point for hustling in the morning (which I love, waking up so early ‘n all) and it’s about the way you feel about yourself and your work throughout the day. When you wake up an hour early, work on your business and have already made progress before others eat breakfast, how would you walk into work? Probably like a peacock during mating season. But when you want to work on your dream at night, all you can do during the day is to anxiously think about when you’ll finally be able to get back, counting the minutes, and focusing less on your day job.…