Strategic Quitting – If you are not going to get to #1, you might as well quit now.

Recently I have completed reading a book. It’s about quitting, about perseverance, about becoming the best and leaving mediocrity behind.

This book is titled “The dip” by Seth Godin. And the dip is only one of the 3 scenarios you can be facing right now. The other 2 are the Cul-de-sac and the cliff.

The dip is the most difficult part of the journey, but once you overcome that, you will enjoy the rewards that follow. The dip produces scarcity and scarcity creates value, that explains the great reward. In business, people use the dip to draw themselves far away from their competitors giving themselves the edge.

The Cul-de-sac is a plateau. You slog, you give, you put in lots of resources but you won’t be going anywhere or just end up being mediocre.

The cliff is when you peak and then you descend drastically. Your future efforts or resources, even when being greater than previous, just won’t satisfy enough. The example given in the book is smoking, an addicted smoker may find smoking more not satisfying as before.

Being the best in the world is usually underrated and most people would settle for mediocrity. If you are aiming for excellence, you will arrive at the dip, but persevere through, do this provided the reward at the end of the dip is what you want. If you are at the Cul-de-sac or cliff, think, is it possible to turn it into a dip by ways such as changing the platform you compete and then slog through the dip you have created. If you can’t, quit.

The wisest thing to do though, before you start to go into a dip, think, is this really what you want? If not, don’t go through it and quit, wasting the resources. List down the things which may make you quit in the dip before you journey.

It is almost impossible to overinvest in becoming the market leader.

Enjoyment

It has been a while ever since I last posted anything on this blog, things however, have happened at the rate I couldn’t keep up with in jotting them down in this blog.

Preoccupation with work. It hasn’t been that smooth all along, lots of new things to learn, new habits to be formed. Sometimes, I would wake up thinking do I have to go to work today, and it has only been 2 months, thinking yesterday, since I started on this new job.

A couple of things have been laid aside, undone. One of them is the book “Intercessory Prayer”, which I had only read and digested 3 chapters. Others include meeting often with friends. And updating this blog and also reading the blogs of others. I hope to keep up with these pursuits soon.

I have been pretty involved in church though, attending every sunday service if I am not on call, on top of that I will attend the monthly prayer meeting and also my cell group meeting, all these being possible only when I’m not on call. Some things have changed in the cell group. More help. More ideas. And all these have definitely brought more excitement, laughter and enjoyment. We have a new meeting place which is very accessible, with dinner provided before we start cell group, a new bible study teacher who is my aunt, and also we do intercessory prayer in groups before we start worshipping and devoting into study of the Word of God.

I have re-journeyed into reading and foot reflexology too. Bit by bit. And I do enjoy. Yes, really.