Quit Your Way to Success
Quitting
I’ve quit more things in my life than you’ve started. I know most people wouldn’t brag about that…but I’m not most people.
I have literally had more jobs than I can remember and I’ve never been fired. I’d quit before that could ever happen. I walked off a construction site once when I realized I’d definitely compromised the structural integrity of the building. I mean I HAD to quit. Not only was I about to be discovered and summarily fired anyway…I’d made the building super unsafe and it could have come down at any moment! 
I hated tree planting so bad, I hid under my tarp until everyone left camp and then hiked into town and took a cab to the airport and flew home. That’s some serious quitting commitment. After making a colossal mess in a fertilizer factory, I barely took the time to turn the forklift off and throw my hard hat in the corner before quitting and running to my car. (before the toxic fumes could overtake me) I’ve quit truck-driving jobs, landscaping jobs, retail sales; I was a beekeeper’s assistant once for 4 hours before quitting.
And relationships…OMG, seriously I can’t even get started on many I quit. I have shelves full of books I’ve quit reading. I quit watching movies and TV shows in the middle all the time. I’ve quit hikes, bike rides and meals, sometimes I’ll even quit talking in the middle of a train of thought. There are mornings I quit half way through getting dressed, and just walk around in my pajamas pants and a shirt and tie. At a track meet in high school right in the middle of the 1500-meter I faked a hamstring injury so I could quit running and just lay down in the infield.
As a lifestyle, quitting has always really worked for me. I never had to put up with annoying bosses, friends, girlfriends, fads or fashions. I was perpetually in the honeymoon state in every area of my life. I’d always be moving into a new apartment, getting to know some awesome new people and be totally enthralled by a sexy new love interest. There were no downsides to quitting. I could smoke, do drugs or start day drinking any time I wanted, cause if it ever became a problem…I’d just quit.
Quitting
But the magic moment was definitely the day I quit giving up. That’s when I realized I had honed my natural god given gift for quitting into an incredible weapon of mass production in my life. Because honestly…there is nothing in my life I haven’t achieved without quitting.
Take chasing the almighty dollar for instance…it was just like a 1500-meter race – I quit. Fitting in and trying to look and feel like everyone else – I quit. Buying into the North American Dream of getting a secure job, buying a house, settling down, smoking a bowl at the end of a hard day, watching some porn, going to bed, getting up in the morning and doing it all over again every day for 30 years. Yeah I totally quit that too.
Oh yeah, and then I quit the whole Dating Thing, you know where you pretend you’re a dynamic individual full of passion, hopes and dreams so someone will fall in love with you. And then you start to take them for granted, and eventually take yourself for granted as you slide down the slippery slope into a semi conscious, medicated state of self denial. Yeah, I quit that too.
From my extensive experience with the benefits of quitting, I have put together a simple 5 Step Plan for Quitting Your Way To An Amazing Life I’d like to share with you.
1) Quit Believing Anything The Media Tells You Is In Your Best Interest
2) Quit Acting Surprised When S#% Hits The Fan…It’s Called ‘Life’
3) Quit Living The Same Way Every Day And Expecting Things To Change
4) Quit Being So Successful At Being Like Everyone Around You
5) Quit Your Habit Of Giving Up Before You Even Begin
Quitting has changed my life…and I believe it will do the same for you!
Rik Leaf is a professional Producer/Presenter, recording artist, slam poet & published author who spends the majority of his creative time & energy dreaming up ways to inspire people to live awesome lives.
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