When to pivot? How do you know when to carry on and when to quit altogether? This hard decision will become a lot easier in this class. This has been one if not the most difficult questions I've had to face in my business and reliance history. My first instance of the when to quit and when sticks Norio was in my agency job. I had a lot going with me.

I was technically head designer, and a lot of my colleagues, but no GS, the reality of office life, the commute through London and the less than inspiring clients. I knew my time was limited, but when to go, the perfect time it never seems to come. It actually took me over two years of on off, should I stay Should I go to finally throw in the towel. I've also struggled since in the freelance projects like my pet portrait company, and my old Healthy Living blog. All of these start off with the honeymoon period and basically fall to pieces as mine DSM drops. The toughest part is not wanting to be seen as a quitter, which for whatever reason, has been deemed in our society as failing or the opposite of success.

Since then, I've totally shifted my approach to quitting failure and success. Certainly my follow through rate is no higher than it was back then. But now I don't berate myself for throwing in the towel. For me, success is the art of the pivot. Sometimes that pivot looks pretty huge, quitting a job to go freelance. Other times it's smaller, changing direction on a blog.

In any case, it's knowing that you've done your best and learning from any and all experiences before moving forward. Now I want to share the five tools I use to decide whether something is worth sticking with or letting go. One intuition without getting too hung up on what intuition is. Let's just say for now, it's the little voice or feeling you get about someone or something. It might come from your belly or from your heart. It doesn't sound like reasonable logic.

It might be a feeling in your gut that says, I don't know about that person, or the goosebumps you get when you have an idea or hear a certain truth spoken. It's the voice that might come through when you journal or have been journaling for a while. My suspicion is that it has something to do with our unconscious mind. As opposed to our conscious thinking mind. The AI or the ego self that often gets very confused, is different from the intuition and makes it all the more difficult to hear. I have two tips for using your intuition when it comes to decision making.

Firstly, I do hope you're making time for meditation. I know I'm probably the 57th person you've heard say that. But honestly, it really is the best way of teaching your noisy minds to quieten down. Even if it's for a split second today. It might be for a whole second tomorrow. I say this because I need that remind myself I really struggled quiet My overly loud mind, fully aware of the difference it makes when I go even a day or two without meditating, or at least attempting to.

I'm a host to a crazy overthinking monster, my thinking brain, and I can see the difference over the years that meditation has made to giving me a break from that. My second tip when it comes to using your intuition is writing. Yay, introverts friend. I learned to do this from just lightly who like myself has come from a very left brained, analytic scientific approach, and who has let the more esoteric ideas and the more right brained thinking it. She recommends writing through intuition as you would a friend, ask a question by writing it down. And when you hear the answer, start writing.

It does feel a bit forced at first, at least that's what I found. But as soon as I start moving my pen, like automatic writing, I start to form words that almost makes sense and actually come up with some pretty great ones. Is that I don't believe just ruminating about the problem or question would have achieved. Start practicing this ideally first thing in the morning and see what comes out to what is it costing you much more of a left brain approach here, just in case that last one wasn't view. What I want to focus on is not necessarily the time or the money your pursuit might be costing, though these aren't worth considering. But what is the energy cost of you staying in your current situation or working on a particular project?

If this is a terrible client, you might feel like leaving them is going to cost you cash. But what if staying means it will cost you even more by losing out on a bigger better client? Or what will it cost you an energy which my day job ultimately cost me and yes, start yelling this out. Seeing this stuff on paper makes the world difference. Three, ask yourself what can you prune, cultivate or exterminate? By prune, I mean, what about your current situation could you cut back on rather than give up entirely?

I could use my old fitness blog because I could decrease the number of posts I wrote per week. Or I could cultivate it. I could double down on my efforts to see if my energy around it shifted. Well, I could exterminate it entirely, writing a final goodbye blog post. I tried all the pruning and cultivating first, before ultimately I exterminated it. The point of this is to know that you do have options and that usually you can run experiments before axing the projects or whatever it is all together.

For set a deadline, too many of us will delay this decision making process so much that it costs us significant opportunities. This is why setting a decide by deadline is so helpful for those of us who are prone to procrastinating. This isn't to say you have to decide everything right now. Ultimately creating a deadline will help return to your question. Use your intuition run experiments until you reach your final deadline. You could also have multiple deadlines, I set weekly and monthly reviews like we just discussed in the last class for this purpose, if I have anything that's feeling a bit off or I'm unsure of, I have time booked in to review whether or not I stick with it for another month.

It might be worth telling a friend your deadline just so you have some accountability to stick to it. Five narrow breaths. This is more of a post decision tip. Whatever you decide, have no regrets one of my core life rules and odds are in your favor, you won't regret that decision that you made thanks to the cognitive bias of choice supported bias, which basically means when you choose something, you tend to feel positive about it. Even if the choice has flaws. So Happy decision making.

Why do you go away so that you can come back so that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. Coming back to where you started is not the same as believing action step. At this point in working through this course, you might be ready to take a review of your current ongoing projects or tasks. If there's anything that you feel has worn out, it's welcome, or you're undecided as to whether you should stick with it. Go through the advice in this class and set your deadline for your decision.