Coaching practices for I Can't Stop Quitting Jobs

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I either cling to something long after it’s clearly not working because quitting feels like giving up, or I bail the first day my motivation dips
• Every time I tidily finish a chunk and then walk away, coming back the next day feels like staring at a blank page again and I have to fight my way back in
• There’s always one more thing I could do, so I never actually stop
• Even after I move on to the next thing, half my head is still snagged on the last one I left half-finished
• My whole job search is just refreshing job boards and firing off applications into the void, competing with hundreds of strangers for whatever happens to be posted

Practices that may help

1. Pre-set your exit criteria
   Decide in advance what result would make you stop, continue, or scale up.
   Tiny Experiments: Testing Change Without Committing to It
2. Stop at a strategic incomplete point
   End a work session mid-task -- not at a neat finish -- so the next session has a ready entry.
   The Zeigarnik Effect: Using Task Tension to Stay Motivated
3. Using "enough" as a stopping rule
   Decide in advance what counts as enough, so you can stop instead of always optimizing.
   Slow Living, Made Practical
4. Manage attention residue at task transitions
   Create a deliberate "offboarding" step when switching tasks to reduce residual interference on the next task.
   Context Switching Cost: Why Task Switching Wrecks Focus
5. Build and work a target list of roles and organisations
   Replace passive job board browsing with active research into specific organisations you want to understand.
   Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network
6. Recognize the "one more year" behavioral trap
   Postponing retirement indefinitely for incremental safety is a real and documented behavioral pattern.
   The 4 Percent Rule, Made Practical
7. Exit obligations gracefully and early
   When you realize a commitment was a mistake, exit cleanly before deeper entrenchment — not later.
   Essentialism: The Art of Eliminating the Non-Essential
8. Frame major decisions as experiments rather than commitments
   An experiment has a built-in review point; a commitment resists revision even when the evidence against it accumulates.
   Goal-Free Living: When Process Beats Destination
9. Separate the sunk cost from the next decision
   What you already spent is gone — decide only on what happens next.
   Loss Aversion, Made Practical
10. Reach a clear stopping point before switching tasks
    Before switching to anything else, get to a natural completion point so the previous task has a cognitive bookmark.
    Attention Residue: Why Switching Tasks Costs More Than You Think

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