Quitting By Design
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Dr. Lynn Marie Morski knows how to address fears and prepare your health, relationships, and finances for a quit because she’s been there time and again. She has quit educational pursuits, jobs, careers, relationships, political parties...you name it; she’s found a way to quit it while maximizing the benefits and minimizing the challenges associated with major life changes. And she wants nothing more than to pass these skills along to you. With this book, Dr. Morski aims to pass on what she’s learned about quitting not only from her own experiences, but also through interviews with others who have made successful quits themselves. She tackles the stigma surrounding quitting, while highlighting what a useful and necessary tool it can be in carving out a life you enjoy.
Lynn Marie Morski
Dr. Lynn Marie Morski is a physician, attorney, and lifelong quitting enthusiast. She practices medicine at the Veterans Administration and shares her love of strategic quitting through speaking, coaching, and her podcast, Quit Happens. Her goal is to pass on the strategic quitting skills she’s developed to help people go from settling to succeeding. When she’s not doctoring, lawyering, or evangelizing quitting, Dr. Morski is also a certified yoga instructor, trains the Brazilian martial art of capoeira, plays guitar and bass, and dances like everyone is watching.
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Quitting By Design - Lynn Marie Morski
About the Author
Dr. Lynn Marie Morski is a physician, attorney, and lifelong quitting enthusiast. She practices medicine at the Veterans Administration and shares her love of strategic quitting through speaking, coaching, and her podcast, Quit Happens. Her goal is to pass on the strategic quitting skills she’s developed to help people go from settling to succeeding. When she’s not doctoring, lawyering, or evangelizing quitting, Dr. Morski is also a certified yoga instructor, trains the Brazilian martial art of capoeira, plays guitar and bass, and dances like everyone is watching.
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Dedication
For my parents, who supported each and every one of my quits.
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Copyright © Lynn Marie Morski (2018)
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Quitting By Design
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First Published (2018)
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Acknowledgments
My deepest gratitude goes out to everyone who supported my pre- sale by buying a copy (or several) of the book: John Lin, Chad Peace, Fred von Graf, Thomas Jarboe, Frank Morski, Adrienne Stewart, Alex Corrales, Alex Vences, Alex Gauthier, Alvaro Perez, Amy Porter, Massape, Andrew Bianchi, Angie Hanchett, Anthony Astolfi, Apoorva Mallya, Arash Afshar, Arthur Wentworth, Autumn Houston, Benjamin Butron, Beverly Tuazon, Carla Ruiz-Velasco, Carlos Armijo, Christine Mersand, David Biglari and Ciara Bozarth, Dennis Stein, Deon Pearson, Don Hutcheson, Donna Kloustermeyer, Eric Dean, Erica Siegal, Geoff Abram, Heemesh Seth, Jackie Silber, James Dutton, Jamie Zaffino, Jeremy Castellano, Jessica Vazquez, Jim Jonas, Jissa Valerio-Woss, Jonathan Kalman, Jordan Woerndle, Josemar Castillo, Joshua Stewart, Judy Bugger, Karen Kuhl, Kathy Lomaskin, Kathy Davis, Katie Allen (O’Donnell – for you KT), Kevin Hwang, Kimmie D’Amico, Lee Constantine, Lester Ancheta, Levani Korganashvili, Marjan Rashedi, Maulik Shah and Sarjita Shukla, Meredith and Brother Morski, Nemo Curiel, Nicole Barrote, Nidhi Kukreja, Patricia Castro, Patakiss Hall, Paul Hanna, Pete Dewar, Ram Kumar, Ramon Gonzalez, Rea Young, Ricardo Booth, Sasha Korbut, Satkirin Khalsa, Sean Jones, Sharmila Hall, Shawn Griffiths, Sheila Cope, Shelly Stewart, Siddique Abbasi, Skye Giordano, Tina Mahajan, and Tracey Minutolo. Your support in my time of anxiety-producing, shameless self-promotion kept me going and I am endlessly grateful for the encouragement.
The rest of the acknowledgements will be in order along my quitting journey…
To Pop, who always thought I’d be a doctor or a lawyer, but who still supported all those other things I tried to be.
To Mom, who (aside from the eyebrow tattoos) has never questioned a single decision I ever made. That kind of freedom is invaluable.
To Tracey Minutolo, for sending my quitting speech to Scott Bartlow from Happen to Your Career, which led to my first podcast interview about quitting…and for your endless invaluable side-hustle coaching and help with promotion. You are a true gem.
To Arash Afshar, for showing me how to set up a podcast and for always supporting my artistic and self-improvement endeavors.
To Tom Jarboe, for showing up out of nowhere to help me campaign to be a Bernie delegate, which set off a cascade of awesomeness for which I can never thank you enough.
To Chad Peace, for believing in a Bernie crier socialist Russian spy. You gave me opportunities beyond anything I could have ever fathomed. I told myself after the DNC I wanted to focus on election reform and suddenly there you were, handing me the keys. You opened up an entire new world to me, and I am eternally grateful for your confidence and support.
To Kyle Haller, for the killer cover design, and to everyone at IVC Media, for showing me how to do social media marketing, then showing me again when I’d inevitably forget.
To Lee Constantine and Publishizer, for giving me a platform through which to pre-sell my book, and for being beyond helpful during the pre-sale.
And finally to David Shyde, for meeting with me at a coffee shop to help figure out what I was supposed to do with my life. Out of that meeting came the Quitting by Design website, which would have never happened without your
design/photography expertise and your encouragement. Every step of the way you’ve given me the perfect advice, exactly when I needed it, both personally and professionally. Obrigada, DVG…sua amizade é tão importante para mim. Nunca esquecerei tudo o que você me deu. ~ Ms. Power.
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Introduction
At some point we decide what we want to be when we grow up. At another point we decide where we want to live. At yet another point we decide with whom we want to spend our lives.
Are you currently in the first career, locale, or relationship you chose? Me neither.
And that’s ok. Actually, that’s great. Because life is about growing and learning every single day, and about being more in tune with yourself and your desires today than you were yesterday. We were not given this one life just to settle for less than ideal situations.
Realize that any decision you made prior to today was made by a person different from who you are now; one with