Is Leaving a Long-Term Job an Easy Decision? Why?

There’s always a real fear about money and the risk of leaving without another salary around the corner. Money concerns influence our decision to stay.

Here are a few suggestions for action if you’re itching to move on but fear the consequences:

1.     Get serious about getting out of there. If you want to start a business, stop talking about it and start doing it, either before or after work or during weekends.

2.     Save money. You would be nuts to quit without either some savings or the ability to freelance, or both.

3.     Believe in yourself and the skills you have gained on the job. When you’ve been in one place for a long time it’s easy to glaze over some of what you’ve learned. Don’t underestimate what you’ve achieved over the years, and how you can parlay that into a new business. If necessary ask others to remind you of those achievements. Have friends make sure your LinkedIn profile is saying everything it should.

4.     Use your relationships. Often that includes work relationships. This can make quitting tough. Your co-workers are not your family though. Don’t let the desire for comfort and continuity overcome the urge to make the leap.

Business Lessons to learn from the Schlappe of Brazil:

1- Forget Your past successes it means NOTHING - It seemed that Brazil in 2014 has never heard of modern football lessons such as: Ball Control / Possession Game, Pressing, Overrun the opposition , strecht the opposition, etc...

Make sure you do not rely on the past, always learn and learn and learn

2- An Action Plan (GERMANY had one) will always prevail over Emotional Intelligence (BRAZIL only had that) - May be even the theory of Emotional Intelligence is simple a CHIMERA.  Emotional Intelligence has never been and will never be a KEY Success Factor for winning a battle in Sport and in Business.

No matter what you do: if you do not have an Action Plan, you are likely to be in BIG trouble.

3- Nothing is lost until it is really lost, always be patient, focus on the BIG POINTS in all your challenges. Brazil's panic after GERMANY scored its first goal in the 13th minutes was a revelation that they lost focus about what their business was: 90 minutes to win a game. They still had 80 minutes to go and there was no room for panic in the 13th minute but focus on their action plan (if they had any, but see 1, they had no action plan).

Patience and focus are critical factors to revert a negative course. Always think of buying yourself Time if you are in trouble. Then may be "all gonna be all right" to quote Bod Marley in "Three Little Birds"

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