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#8 Quit your job

You don’t actually need to quit your job in order to change your life, but if you are not happy about the job that you have, what are you still doing there?

The object of this tip is to help your recognize things that you are settling for instead of making room for the things that you’ll really enjoy having in your life.

Maybe it is not that you need to quit your job, but it is that you need to quit your attachment to it. Many of us believe that when we do a good job at work, we are good people who are successful and deserve to be happy. But when our jobs don’t satisfy us, we believe that we don’t deserve to be happy.

It is in this cycle, or others like it, that we begin to feel like less of a person that can make changes in our life. So, to stop this cycle, we need to recognize that we are not what we do or what we accomplish.

In effect, you will want to quit the power that your job has over you. But how to do this?

To quit the power that your job has over you, you will want to consider the following pieces of advice:

• Try not to judge yourself by what you can accomplish
• Create a to do list, but make priorities
• Set the bar lower
• Recognize that what you need from the job and what your boss needs from the job are
  completely different
• Try to establish a consistent work schedule
• Leave work at work
• Realize that work is just work

While that sounds like a lot of platitudes, one of the biggest lessons in the bunch is the idea that work is just work. It can help for you to realize that while something at work might seem like a major concern right now, chances are likely that in six months from now, it won’t seem like such a big deal.

Just for today, try to think about your job as though it was the last day that you were working.

How does that feel?

You don’t have to quit your job to quit the hold that it exerts upon you; but if you find that you can’t seem to do this on your own, maybe it is time to at least look at the classified ads for a better place for you.

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