Don’t Quit… Pause and Regroup Instead

I felt an emotion I hadn’t felt in a really long time.

Maybe impulse is a better description of it.

I was sitting at my desk, making calls for new clients, and I had an unmistakable desire to quit.

I wanted to put the computer on sleep, get out of my chair, and be done with the entire thing. I never wanted to touch the line of business I was working on again.

I didn’t.

I finished the day but that urge to quit was so strong, so visceral, I knew I had to do something about it, because it was a symptom of a much larger problem.

Something was wrong.

Recognition Is The First Step

We all can make some seriously stupid decisions about careers, projects, and relationships because we jump right to elimination instead of regrouping.

We don’t see the urge to burn all the bridges for what it is… a sign to evaluate and regroup. Instead, we just want out as hard and as fast as we can.

That may create a dramatic rush of euphoria that we’re free from whatever it is that we wanted so badly to quit but that will fade fast. Then we’re left picking up the pieces and once again starting over.

A life of dramatic exits…