Coaching practices for I Keep Quitting Every Job

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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
• 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
• 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
• I’ve been trying to dodge the whole trigger
• I’m sick of logging everything

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. 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
3. 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
4. Fire the new routine on the original cue
   Leave the trigger in place and attach the new behavior to it, every time.
   Habit Substitution: Swap the Routine, Keep the Reward
5. Take a planned monitoring break to prevent tracking fatigue
   Sustained self-monitoring burns out — a deliberate short break with clear resumption rules prevents abandonment.
   Self-Monitoring, Made Practical
6. 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
7. Write and commit to a standing not-to-do list
   Turn elimination candidates into an explicit, reviewed list of permanent refusals.
   The Not-To-Do List
8. 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
9. 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
10. Choose a replacement that delivers the same reward
    The new routine must satisfy the original craving, or the old one snaps back.
    Habit Substitution: Swap the Routine, Keep the Reward

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