{"id":3572,"date":"2011-06-11T11:04:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-11T16:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2011-06-11T11:04:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-11T16:04:35","slug":"book-review-quitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?p=3572","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Quitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3573\" href=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/?attachment_id=3573\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3573\" title=\"drstore-books-quitter\" src=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/drstore-books-quitter-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/drstore-books-quitter-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/drstore-books-quitter-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/drstore-books-quitter.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just finished reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Quitter-Jon-Acuff\/dp\/0982986270\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1307807868&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Quitter<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonacuff.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Acuff<\/a>. \u00a0The idea behind the book is moving from your day job to your dream job. \u00a0It was interesting for me to read this book, because I already have the privilege of living out my dream job everyday. \u00a0I have wanted to be a high school principal since I was in high school due to the godly example set by my high school principal. \u00a0However, I know that not everyone is as fulfilled in their current job. \u00a0My purpose in reading this book was to confirm that I am indeed in my dream job as well as to look for ways to encourage those who are longing for more out of their job. \u00a0I think this book is a great read for everyone, no matter how you feel about your job. \u00a0This book provides encouragement, confirmation, and a ton of laughter!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some things that I highlighted while reading&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> I hated that my dreams had to go into hibernation every Monday morning. And so, like many other times in my life, I kept coming back to the same thought. It\u2019s quitting time.<\/li>\n<li>At some point we stopped being stayers and formed a long line of leavers. We started seeing motion as a sign of success and transition as a sign of progress.<\/li>\n<li>To chase your dream well you must fight to hold on to this small but significant word. Saying no is one of your most important resources, especially in the beginning. And the simplest and safest way to keep your no\u2019s is to keep your day job.<\/li>\n<li>I know it sounds crazy, but people with jobs tend to have more creative freedom than people without.<\/li>\n<li>When you step up to a challenge before you, your ramped-up resources rub off on other areas of your life. You wouldn\u2019t think eating less \u201cfat\u201d would impact how closely you monitor your family\u2019s financial budget, but it\u2019s all tied together. Discipline and focus are contagious and they tend to spread their benefits all around. Unfortunately this works both ways.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t buy into the nothing lie. You wound yourself when someone compliments your gift and you reply, \u201cOh, that\u2019s nothing.\u201d Your gift is never nothing. Regardless of what it can be, it is always something. And something is the perfect place to start.<\/li>\n<li>What do I love enough to do for free?<\/li>\n<li>What do I do that causes time to feel different?<\/li>\n<li>What do I enjoy doing regardless of the opinions of other people?<\/li>\n<li>If only your life changed, would that be enough?<\/li>\n<li>Are there any patterns in the things you like doing?<\/li>\n<li>Competition is a great motivator but a horrible measurement.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou can\u2019t use analytics to figure out the message.\u201d In other words, you can\u2019t allow your results or the measurement of your progress to control your dream. What you do, the message, so to speak, has to be true and honest and come from the core of what you care about, not be a whim in the whirling winds of analytics.<\/li>\n<li>Measure hustle first.<\/li>\n<li>Measure the things you can control before the things can\u2019t.<\/li>\n<li>Author Malcolm Gladwell summarized this problem in a speech he gave: \u201cIncompetence irritates me, but overconfidence scares me. Incompetent people rarely have the opportunities to make mistakes that greatly affect things. But overconfident leaders and experts have the dangerous ability to create disaster.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do yourself a favor and go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B004ZL9TW0\/ref=r_soa_w_d\" target=\"_blank\">pick up<\/a> a copy of this book today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished reading Quitter by Jon Acuff. \u00a0The idea behind the book is moving from your day job to your dream job. \u00a0It was interesting for me to read this book, because I already have the privilege of living out my dream job everyday. \u00a0I have wanted to be a high school principal since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-funny","category-leadership"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meganstrange.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}