017: Removing Obstacles: The Lost Art of Quitting

The Intentional Advantage

Tanya Dalton

Self-improvement, Business, Management, Education

4.8 • 602 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

There's a lot of guilt that comes with the idea of quitting something. But in today's modern world, it's actually imperative that we quit certain things that don't align with our goals and priorities. I'm giving an overview of why quitting something huge in my life was one of the best decisions I've ever made and how you can apply those lessons learned in your own life. You'll also get a free download in helping you decide if you need to quit something and how to plan and cope in that process.

What's In This Episode:

Why quitting was an important part of starting inkWELL Press.
How quitting is no longer applicable for the modern world.
The difference in the right and the wrong ways to quit something.
Solutions to things you want to quit, but still need to be done.

To get your free download, "Five Minutes to Peak Productivity" just go to inkwellpress.com/podcast

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Productivity Paradox from Inquell Press, a podcast focused on finding true fulfillment and happiness through the power of productivity.
0:09.2	To get your free checklist, five minutes to peak productivity, simply sign up at Inquilpress.com slash podcast.
0:16.3	And now here's your host, Tanya Dalton.
0:20.4	Hello, hello, everyone. Welcome to Productivity Paradox. I's your host, Tanya Dalton. Hello, hello, everyone.
0:22.3	Welcome to Productivity Paradox.
0:24.5	I'm your host, Tanya Dalton, and this is episode 17.
0:29.5	Today, we are going to be talking about the lost art of quitting.
0:34.9	Now, we've all heard the saying, quitters never win and winners never quit.
0:41.5	And how many of you think that's true? I'm willing to bet there's a large percentage of people
0:47.0	right now nodding their heads agreeing with that saying. And I want to really change the way
0:53.2	that we look at quitting and not looking at it as something
0:56.8	that's a negative or something that is bad because quitting is not an end it's actually the first
1:03.1	step to redefining your goals and refocusing your life and I'm here to say I a proud quitter. I have quit some pretty big things in my time,
1:16.2	and there is none bigger than the story that I'm getting ready to tell you about how I quit my first
1:22.9	business. So if you've listened to episode zero, you've heard my backstory of how I started my first
1:30.2	business with $50 and I was a stay-at-home mom.
1:34.2	And through my job or through my business that I started, I was able to allow my husband,
1:40.1	John, to quit working in corporate America and come and work with me. That's actually my husband,
1:45.9	John's voice and the voiceover that you hear at the very beginning of this podcast, which makes me
1:50.2	happy because everything we do, we do together. And we were very happy working for our first
1:56.4	business together. We loved that we made decisions together. We loved that we worked together.
2:01.9	It worked out really well. But I'm going to be honest with you and tell you that business did not fulfill me.
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