65. How To Be Awesome at Quitting When Something Isn’t Right
How To Be Awesome At Everything
Lindsay Dickhout
4.6 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast, Lindsay is forcing you to be a quitter! In the best way possible! We are talking about quitting the things that no longer make you feel fulfilled- or even worse, make you feel bored or miserable.
We aren’t talking about quitting when something gets hard.
We are talking about quitting when something doesn’t feel right anymore.
Lindsay really believes that sometimes we are stuck doing the wrong thing, but we don’t know what the right thing is so we just stay put. But then we aren’t giving the universe the white space for us to discover what the right thing actually is.
This type of quitting takes serious psychological courage. You have to be willing to be vulnerable and not afraid of judgment. You have to be willing to accept that you spent time doing something that wasn’t right. But that’s why we need to cut and run now. Not 2 or 3 or 10 years from now when we are doing the same boring, unfulfilling thing.
Lindsay opens up about things that she’s quit (way later than she should have) and a bad habit she didn’t even realize was wasting time and bringing her zero fulfillment.
On our journey of trying to be awesome at everything, quitting the wrong things is ultra important. So listen to this episode, then go quit something, or 10 things, that are no longer serving you ❤️
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| 0:00.0 | Today we are talking about quitting. Not the type of quitting you do when things get hard, |
| 0:04.3 | the type of quitting you do when something just isn't right anymore. You aren't quitting |
| 0:08.5 | to avoid the struggle. You're quitting because you're bored or you're miserable or you're just |
| 0:12.9 | going through the motions. And here's the craziest part. You may be quitting without even |
| 0:17.5 | knowing what the next step is. So you have to be more comfortable with uncertainty |
| 0:21.2 | than being okay with being bored. We're talking about being conscious of what is wrong for us |
| 0:26.8 | and what is right for us and we have to be willing to cut and run when it's wrong. It takes courage |
| 0:32.0 | to quit. You might have to be vulnerable and admit that you spent time on something that wasn't |
| 0:36.1 | right. But when we are all 90 and we're looking back on our decisions, what will we regret the least? |
| 0:42.4 | Pretty sure we won't regret ditching the thing that made us miserable to trade it for something |
| 0:46.2 | that made us feel alive and fulfilled and connected. |
| 0:49.5 | I'm talking about everything I've learned about quitting when something isn't right. |
| 0:55.1 | Let's go. |
| 1:01.2 | You're listening to the How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your life more awesome. Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur |
| 1:06.3 | and business owner, a mom and wife, and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. |
| 1:12.8 | This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting to |
| 1:17.4 | get to her kids one day. And now it's a podcast. Join us on this journey where we talk about |
| 1:22.3 | how to be awesome at everything we do. Here's Lindsay. |
| 1:26.3 | Weird that I'm obsessed with being 90, |
| 1:29.3 | like picturing myself at 90 years old |
| 1:32.3 | and thinking about how I would feel about what I'm doing right now |
| 1:37.4 | and how I'm spending my time and the decisions I'm making. |
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