Quitting your job to pursue purpose. Step 1: Give up the soft life
Step 1: Give up the soft life
“Quitting your job is the hardest decision you’ll make”. Bullshit.
On a simple low-resolution view, people may look at quitting and pursuing your purpose as hard and daunting because your wellbeing will be challenged. I can tell you now; it is not hard. The only thing you will need to do is prepare for it. This series of articles will give you the run down of steps that provide you with the DO’S and DON’TS when pondering about quitting your job in order to follow the purpose for your life.
Pursuing your purpose is a spiritual journey. There is no blueprint, pattern or design to it. Everyone’s experience will be different and so do not take what people say on face value and accredit it to the truth – including what will be mentioned here in this article.
When you pursue your purpose, THE EARTH IS HAPPY BECAUSE YOU HAVE FINALLY DECIDED TO DEPOSIT YOUR GIFT TO IT. Super natural things will happen - you will receive mercy and money from people, doors will open that otherwise wouldn’t open and you will be highly rewarded. But not so fast - on the contrary you will be ridiculed for your decision, you will be rejected by potential customers and you will feel like you’re alone in the journey.
Why the sudden urge to quit your job?
Until you find the purpose for life, your plans for success will always frustrate you – including your job. This is because the best, unrivalled and unsurpassable success is tied to your purpose for life, and your purpose is tied to a gift you have. There is only one way to dominate in life and that is THROUGH YOUR GIFT.
I have figured out that more and more people are stuck in careers they hate and are working in jobs they despise – the only reason for going to the job is for the sake of self-sustenance. After all this is the definition of a job: something that you wouldn’t do if you did not receive money. This, I believe, is rotting the core of all our systems. We are not choosing careers based on natural inclinations but based on what can give me more money. The pathology of this is having nurses who aren’t really caregivers at heart, teachers who don’t love to educate and law enforcers who do not love to police.
The money keeps us going but is that all life will be? Do you want to keep waking up in the morning going to something where most things don’t resonate with your gift? Look at you! Look at what you have accepted!
Deep in you there is a natural DNA coding that always poses questions like “is this all it will be for me?” or “why do I have to do this?”. These questions are normal because the human spirit cannot be oppressed permanently by anything, including a job.
Why does a job exist?
Did you know: A job only exists due to someone discovering their gift and working on it. They discovered their gift and refined it to the point of success, where they ended up needing another hand to help them and offered to pay money for the help – which is where you come in in the job.
Did you also know: A job exists due to someone discovering purpose. They discovered a problem and with their gift proceeded to solve it, which required the acquisition of labour to help - hence employment.
Why is a job good?
Jobs offer us the opportunity to develop ourselves. They allow us to interact with people, develop good interaction and communication skills and give us the necessary patience to be under submission. In my opinion, jobs are only placeholders for purpose. They allow us time to discover and refine our gift while receiving an income to keep us going.
Steps to take when you have decided to quit
You will either succeed or fail in pursuance of your purpose. Both of these consequences are good. Succeeding is good because you have proven your hypothesis of following your purpose. Failure is also good because you will learn what is necessary for your type of purpose to succeed. The following step below is one of many which I will write about that will help you prepare to quit if you are planning to do so.
Step 1: Give up things that will finish your capital
Capital is king when pursuing your purpose.
It is important to have almost zero payments every month in order to reserve and put all your money in your purpose. This process must be undertaken while you are still in your current job. When I quit my job and pursued my purpose I made the big mistake of keeping things that I should have gotten rid of, resulting in my capital getting finished quicker. For example: below was my inventory of cars. I was paying R5000 for the Ford Fiesta and paying R2900 for the Chevrolet utility. This was excluding insurance, repairs and fuel. So in all I paid roughly R12 000 per month for vehicles.
This is what I could have done while still in my job for preparation:
Send back both cars to the bank and save for a couple of months to buy a cheaper car cash. Or taken a cheaper car and paid it off quickly in high instalments for a couple of months
Taken back the Fiesta and kept the van only and increase my instalment to R10 000 which would have resulted in it being paid up in 6 months
Do you have a car that you are still paying for? Send it back to the bank! Do you have a mortgage you are still paying for? Sell the house! Have loans, clothing accounts or other liabilities that you are still paying for? Close them or just leave them unpaid. You will need all that money for what you are trying to pursue. You cannot have the freedom to work when you have debts to pay for at the end of the month. This is not the workplace anymore – you are working for yourself. This is a radical but very important act to undertake because it will most likely make or break you.
Money runs out very quickly when there is none coming in. I carried on living like I was still employed and learned this the hard way. I still paid for cars which I couldn’t afford anymore, I still lived life as if nothing happened and slowly the wheels came off. Luckily I had a Private Client account and was pre-approved for loans of about R150 000. I also had a Private Clients credit card which I increased the limit to R90 000 from R10 000. If these were not available, it would have been curtains in my pursuit of purpose. This money bought me time to be able to work.
In closing, remember that NO MONEY IS COMING IN AT THE END OF THE MONTH once you have quit. You will learn to live in the momentum of your purpose. This means that you won’t know what’s happening, you won’t know when you will make it and surprisingly you will be fine with all of it. If you are a perfectionist and love to know or plan everything, you will be in for the shock of your life. The following will probably occur in your life as a result:
· you will develop a trust for a higher power whereas before you were self sufficient
· you will be happier with less things
· you will be okay with not knowing what the future holds
· you will be much more disciplined with your time and money
· you will enjoy waking up in the morning will look forward to each day
· there will be a sense of urgency in your life due to purpose
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