 One of those things that no one tells you when you begin on this ambitious quest to improve your life is that there is actually a time When you should quit like there are goals and phases and Undulations in your goals where you should quit you should stop doing what you're doing because it's not working and Pushing more may only get you these marginal tiny results, and they're not going to get you the big thing that you want So in this video, I want to share a little bit about my experience on when you should quit essentially something important to you And reformulate regroup and find a better way forward What's up guys Alex Hine author of the book master of the day now? There's always a time in a person's life where there's a time to push forward with your goals and a time to stop I've included a free goal-setting worksheet right there in the description It's the very first link in the description box there below So click that it's going to give you the worksheet in your email inbox and a beginner goal-setting course when I started my business I Wanted a certain kind of lifestyle that involves certain things So I knew that I wanted to have a business where I can make XYZ dollars a month I could travel around the world so it was online It was audience based so I could impact other people and I could hear the impact of my work every single day But there were all these other factors that I had hadn't decided about right I didn't make those up in my mind, and I was just kind of leaving them open and It was only after years and years and years of pushing in my business that some things just were now working Right like some things no matter how hard I pushed no matter how hard I worked no matter how hard I kept reinventing and trying and experimenting and hiring coaches those other things never worked and What I wish I knew now was that if you look at businesses and creative ideas. This is more related to that There's this time that Seth Godin calls the dip which is where at the start you're excited you're ambitious You're ready to go and then It starts going down and that's where it starts getting hard And you don't know if this is the time where do I push and then it becomes successful like you hear about all of the successful companies or Is the time where it's actually gonna stay in the dip and you never really know which is what makes it so difficult You never really know if this company this business this creative idea this venture is it at this dip But right here six months from now. It's gonna pop or if it's gonna stay the same So how do you figure that out? So for me the first thing is that if it doesn't feel good and more importantly it hasn't for a long time Personally, I would bail. I mean there are so many things in my business that I've done If you want to compare things that have made me money Some of the things that I focused on to make money have maybe the most money But a lot of things that I focused on to make money have not worked You know like me launching digital products and online courses for almost everyone on the internet that has an internet business That is by far the number one source of revenue and yet for me no matter how smart and strategic I am it's never been the number one source of revenue and then other things like me writing my book Which I did for fun and excitement and passion That's become one of my biggest sources of revenue that I can rely on every single month to pay my rent and to pay my Expenses and the product side has been really crappy and hard for me to do largely the book only was this easy for me to write The whole process was fun and impactful. So there's something to be said for those two things The second thing for me is when You've been doing something for a long time and you aren't getting the results you want now I have to put this with an asterisk because there are plenty of people going to the gym every week for months and months and months But they don't know what they're doing so they don't get results There's plenty of entrepreneurs that I've coached that they think they're doing like they're really working hard But they're really not doing much, you know like they'll say they're they're like working so hard on their business Or their YouTube or their blog and if I ask them to show me even five videos They've uploaded they don't even have five videos They've uploaded so there's a there's a divide between diluting yourself where you're not actually doing the work But you think you are thinking is not work strategy is not work And there's the divide between like am I doing it, but it's not working so I would say if you've done a realistic assessment of yourself and you realize I've been doing this thing that I think is The right thing to try to get fit to try to get a boyfriend or a girlfriend to try to get my business to work or my Book published and it's not working for a year six months or a year Then I would say you're in the dip and it's time to quit and either figure out a new way to reach the goal or Find out a different pivot and regroup figure out What's exciting to you and where your intuition is pushing yourself now and the last thing I would say is The way you know you're in the dip and you should quit a project You're working on is if you have a feeling that you're on the wrong path And I think this is the biggest of all because people can become successful what they hate I mean, there's no doubt anyone who works hard will have some level of success in anything right a person who works hard can become good just as Easily a skateboarding as quantum mechanics right work ethic Discipline determines success more than anything else in my experience observing people But it doesn't mean they'll enjoy the process or they'll be happy Or they'll want to do that forever because they're using a lot of resources to push If you feel like Intuitively you're not on the right path like why am I even doing this? That was something I repeated a lot internally had a good job a Lot of freedom a lot of responsibility doing what I wanted great commute Beautiful little office I could work in great, you know great people I worked with and yet every day I was like why am I doing this because I felt like there was something more exciting to me that If I died tomorrow, I would regret not have taken that chance on myself to do the things that were really cool to me Like I wanted to do whatever the coolest thing in the world was and now that's exactly what I'm doing So sometimes you feel like, you know, this may give you success But success is not your entire financial success. It's not your entire definitional success So you need to figure out if I feel like I'm on the wrong path To me that is a clear intuition that you're in a dip and you need to get out because pushing upward is only gonna Fulfill you in one aspect of your life So that's what I think in terms of they're working on something. You're not getting results. It's not working I would use these three criteria to see if is it really worth me pushing more or is it time to bale? Because there's a bigger goal I can achieve With much less stress that feels better And I know it'll happen because I'm I have a feeling that I have some kind of attraction or affinity towards that craft So again, don't forget I've included a free goal-setting worksheet There's a goal-setting course in the description box there below Click that first link in the description That'll bring you to a free email course on how to set and achieve your most wild goals to have your best year ever So click that link there below get signed up You could also check out my last two videos right here and right here You