Are You a Quitter?

My friend Jon Acuff from Stuff Christians Like recently released a new book called Quitter. Though the book is written to encourage and challenge people who are experiencing a gap between their day job and their dream job, I think the principles can apply to anyone who is looking to find their purpose and take their next steps. Quitter offers some great insights. The bonus is that you also get Jon’s excellent writing and humor.

Here are the highlights from my reading:

• “Quitting a job doesn’t jump-start a dream because dreams take planning, purpose and progress to succeed.”
• “‘Success always comes when preparation meets opportunity.’ It’s true, and the opportunity to quit your job will always be there. The real question is whether you’ve prepared.”
• “You don’t ask the bottomless, ‘What do I want to do with my life?’ but instead, ‘What have I done in my life that I loved doing?’”
• “Quit perfect. It’s an unnecessary obstacle. Chase the idea of your dream being better finished at 90 percent than perfect and not pursued.”
• “You have the perfect amount of time each day for the things that matter most. The key is spending time on those things.”
• “I don’t think any of the information in this book works without applying hustle to it.”
• “Hustle isn’t just doing the things you love all the time. Hustle is doing the things you don’t enjoy sometimes to earn the right to do the things you love.”
• “Do more of the things you love and less of the things you like.”
• “Pitting your dream against someone else’s is a fantastic way to get discouraged and depressed. Nothing good comes from measuring your dream against your competition.”
• “If I say yes to this opportunity and am successful at it, what will be the long-term outcome?”
• “The reward of getting really good at something less significant than your real dream is that you get to do it more often. That’s not a reward; that’s a punishment.”