If there is a secret to life, I think it might be to keep quitting things until you find something you don’t want to quit.

After worship, I hurried upstairs, called my manager, and told them I was quitting. I didn’t need any more signs. I needed to be obedient, despite if I agreed with God or not. Oh, that can’t be God!” I thought to myself as I rolled up my sleeves and started scouring the internet for jobs. “Because I asked for a job—and this isn’t enough money.” Quitting before even starting and quitting as soon as something gets difficult are always unwise. However, trying something, giving it a shot, realizing it’s not your cup of tea, and then quitting — that’s different. I’d mute phone calls from real life people when they came in during my leisurely social-media scroll, choosing synthetic connection over the real deal. Anyone who’s squinted doubtfully at a parenting manual will relish The Joy of Quitting by Keiler Roberts, which skewers family life with merciless and very funny directness."— Guardian Best Graphic Novels of 2022A diary in comics form, Roberts’s book collects snippets from eight years of her daily life, capturing exasperating and hysterical moments of mothering, friendship and more."— New York Times And last of all: Quit insisting that your way is best. Breakthroughs can happen only through radical honesty, so don’t be too proud to admit you took a wrong turn. We all do.

Mastery: Robert Greene draws on the lives of Martha Graham, Charles Darwin, and others to show how pursuing mastery of the thing we love to do can lead to great things. How am I supposed to know if that was God’s voice or my own? What if I was just being lazy? I asked God to please confirm, for sure, that it was His voice. The Joy of Quitting covers a period of eight years in Roberts’ life and involves people she lives with or interacts with daily. Her daughter plays a prominent role, along with her partner, parents, assorted family members, friends, and pets. These interactions lend themselves to humour, not only when her daughter Xia says something precocious (like asking for Tylenol because she’s sad or whispering to avoid fat-shaming squirrels) but when her partner asks the kind of questions that rile every woman up (“If I ask you something, do you promise not to get mad?”). The best thing to do if you want to avoid developing a salary addiction is to quit before you’re ahead – before you’re so far up the career ladder that earning less money seems unthinkable. This was very easy for me to do with law because I was really quite bad at it. Also, I was working on a case about ice-cream that had been going on for 19 years and I’d started having nightmares about ice-cream. There are also things that I haven’t quit. I’ve kept at Weirdo Poetry, which started with the publication of my Pirate Haiku book in 2016 that almost nobody read. There were years when I had less than twenty people who cared anything about what I was creating.Roberts possesses this unique ability of holding a mirror to our lives, compelling us to pay a little more attention to what we’re missing out. Her panels are full of little ‘aha!’ moments that stand-up comics deploy so effectively, making us nod in recognition while we giggle despite ourselves. She grapples with deeper questions too, such as mental illness, or the pros and cons of using her daughter’s life and conversation as fodder for her jokes. Flourish: A leader in the Positive Psychology movement, Dr. Martin Seligman goes beyond happiness to examine what makes a fulfilling life.

If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride — and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards. It seems to be a common theme on the blog in the past couple of weeks or so to talk about hard things and how to persevere despite the difficulties. And while that’s all well and good, I think it would be a great disservice to only talk about doing the hard things that are worth doing and not the other side of that coin. When to Not Do the Hard Things Sometimes in life we come up against certain individuals who press our buttons or challenge us, which can result in behaving in ways we aren’t necessarily proud of. Sometimes there are people with who, however hard we try, are just not in the right space to hear it or just don’t want to. This is not a new concept.The joy of quitting lies in the freedom to experiment, evolve, and adapt. It’s about recognizing that life is a series of experiences, each teaching us valuable lessons. Quitting doesn’t mean giving up; it means prioritizing your well-being and happiness. It means giving the chance for other things to open up. Now when I first read about this my instant reaction was ‘well, how do things get resolved then?’ But it’s all about choice. Quiet quitting is about what battles you need to fight, what conversations are useful, which of those won’t make any difference and when is the time to recognise by being quiet and walking away it’s far more helpful to both parties. So, how does this version of quiet quitting play out? The following day, I walked into school. My fingers had swollen to the point that I couldn’t wear my rings. My legs hurt so bad I could barely cross them when I sat down. Every move brought pain. We sat down for worship. I closed my eyes to sing, and one of my friends cleared his throat and asked to share something.

Each time I pray for a job, miraculously, the Lord provides something. This has been a common theme in my life since I was young. And, just like always, this past month, I started praying for a job, and The Lord provided. Quitting is in, apparently. More than three million Americans quit their jobs last December, the highest number in a decade. This is a good indicator that the US economy is doing OK, but also shows that our attitudes towards work are shifting. Suddenly, dropping out is the new leaning in.I had a 20-year career on radio and TV, working for the BBC, CNN, and NPR. At one point, I had my own show on the Travel Channel. But it was the wrong path for me. Appearing on camera made me anxious. Traveling for weeks at a time without adequate sleep or nutrition stressed me out. Constantly, my inner guide told me this wasn’t for me, yet I ignored it. For two decades, I was one of those people who pursued, as Carolyn Myss puts it, “a dream that does not belong to them.” Eventually, it put me in the hospital.