Quitting is for winners in leadership

Let's quit together this week

Morning team,

I’m writing this as I’ve just finished the new website, it’s been a long road but finally, I have a home for my business that I’m so so proud of - we’re going live around 2pm today so keep an eye out!

I need to talk to you about quitting. It’s one of the greatest reasons I had huge success in my leadership roles and career in general.

Some of the biggest ‘quits’ I’ve done in my life:

• I quit my Economics A level halfway through the school year

• I quit an ex-boyfriend 5 years into a relationship I thought was going to end up in marriage

• I quit my first ever big job (Harrods) after 8 months

• I quit my job at Sage with the fancy job and title

• I quit doing my1on1 client calls

• Most recently, I quit buying an idylic house in the suburbs half way through the sale process

At the time of making every one of these decisions, I felt like a failure.

I felt like I’d let myself, my family and others down.

But here’s what happened:

• By quitting my 4th A Level (Economics), I focussed deeply on my other 3 (Maths, History, Biology), allowing me to get A’s and into a redbrick uni (and be the first person in my family to go into higher education)

• After leaving my ex, in allowing myself to be single, I channeled all my emotions and time into fitness. I’d never stepped foot into a gym, and 5 years later I’m the fit and healthiest I’ve ever been. Not to mention now actually with the love of my life, and in a relationship built on solid foundations.

• When I called my mum on the bus home from Harrods one day to tell her I was quitting, only 8 months after moving to London, she was mortified.
  ”How are you going to pay your rent” “It’ll look so bad on your CV”
  Understandable.
  But I was miserable, and I found another job whilst in my notice, a job that propelled me into the tech world, leading me to eventually move to building GoProposal.

• Leaving Sage was probably the toughest of them all. After years with the same team growing it from the ground up and a really strong career path ahead of me, I questioned myself 100 times as to why I was taking the leap.
  But fast forward 1 year, and I’m just about to launch the business of my dreams.

I don’t need to carry on, you get the gist.

Quitting is so powerful.

I’m not asking you to quit your job. But what meetings, projects, friends, social occasions are ou constantly giving your time and energy to?

Can you quit those?

Let’s quit together this week.

Peace,

H

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