A letter to your future self…
Write from the other side of the quit
Most of us make decisions from where we are now. From the fear. The practicalities. The sunk cost. What other people might think. All the reasons it would be easier to stay exactly where we are. So, for the next ten minutes, I want you to do the opposite. Imagine it’s one year from now.
You quit.
You stopped doing the thing you knew wasn’t working. You let go of the thing you’d outgrown. You made the decision you’d been putting off. Now write a letter from that version of you to the person you are today. Don’t overthink it. Don’t try to make it sound profound. Just be honest.
Start here.
It’s been one year since you quit __________________________.
I know you were scared because __________________________.
You kept holding on because __________________________.
The thing you couldn’t see at the time was __________________________.
Once you let it go, you made room for __________________________.
The biggest thing that changed was __________________________.
You were worried you would lose __________________________.
What you gained instead was __________________________.
I wish you had known __________________________.
If I could tell you one thing from here, it would be __________________________.
You already know what you need to do.
Sincerely,
You, 12 months later x
What does your future self know that you’re still trying to talk yourself out of?
Write that answer down. Keep it somewhere you can come back to when the doubt kicks in. Because it probably will. Quitting is one decision. Sticking to it is hundreds more. Sometimes you need reminding why you started.