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No shame in the quitting game!

Name: No shame in the quitting game!
Uploaded: 2023-07-14T13:00:32+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short YouTube monologue by Peter Vander Wall arguing that it is acceptable—and sometimes necessary—to quit goals or businesses that no longer align…

14 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Peter Vander Wall arguing that it is acceptable—and sometimes necessary—to quit goals or businesses that no longer align with one’s larger life vision. Using his own wedding-photography example (traveling to destination weddings in Cancun, Bali, Iceland), he explains that micro goals can drift away from macro goals like financial, time, and location freedom; when they do, one should reassess and drop those micro goals without shame.

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It is okay to give up on your goals. Everyone knows the feeling of creating this huge goal that you're super focused on and it's all you can think about. But then over time, it gets less and less exciting to you. Goals aren't actually helpful if they're not in line with the overall vision that you have for your life. And your overall vision can change over time, too. So maybe they were in line before, and now over time, they've just gotten further and further apart. I know a handful of people who are charging big bucks to go shoot these weddings in Cancun, Bali, Iceland, you name it. Turns out there's a lot that goes on behind the scenes that I'm just not super into. Hopping from one location to the next. All the baggage that goes along with this job, working your butt off in an unfamiliar location. That stuff just isn't attractive to me. More importantly, it's not in line with my ultimate goals of financial time and location freedom. This micro goal didn't line up with my macro vision. As a result, I'm shutting down that business. You need to do the same analysis. You need to ask yourself, do my micro goals line up with my macro vision for my life? If not, dump them. There's no shame in that.