quitting – From the desk of Adam Thomas

Restriction is freedom

I can’t seem to just do it “cold turkey.”

“It” you ask?

Well, anything. Any time someone says they just quit “x” and did it cold turkey, I am beyond impressed, because I can’t.

For it to work for me, I need to have a forcing function, something that stops me from doing anything.

My favorite now is “Freedom.” Freedom stops me from surfing the web, and when I go to a site that I use to satiate my anxiety, I get a green screen that says “you are now free.”

This is great because I am going there because I go out of habit, not out of purpose. Sometimes a second is all you need to get back on track.

How do you break it up? If you don’t, how might you find a way to?

Stats:

Meditate – 0
Read – 0
Exercise – 0
Slept at least 8 hours – 1
Limited Phone Exposure – 0
Wrote (this blog doesn’t count) – 0
Shared something – 1

You choose to quit; no one made you clock out.

Quitting is a decision. It is rarely, if ever, forced upon you.

Like all decisions, quitting isn’t a “wrong” or “right” choice. It is contextual.

The thing to remember, though, is that you choose to quit.

Frame that decision in that way. To do it in another way inhibits growth. Thus, think of responsibility as your development fertilizer.

Projects you do or don’t choose to ship create impact.

Take responsibility.

Then, use them as a map to help you move forward.

Restriction is freedom

You choose to quit; no one made you clock out.