Coaching practices for I Keep 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
• 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
• I keep grinding on at something that stopped working a while ago because I’ve already put so much in that quitting feels like waste
• I already know this commitment was a mistake, but I keep putting off backing out because I’m terrified of looking flaky and letting people down
• I keep telling myself I’ll cut back on the things that drain me, but every single time the moment comes I cave and say yes again

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. 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
4. 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
5. 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
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. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. Letting yourself finish and stop
    Choose a small number of projects and actually complete them before adding more.
    Four Thousand Weeks, Made Practical

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