Growing up, we’re constantly told that quitting is bad and that only losers and weak hearted souls quit. I completely disagree.

Life is about learning. Learning to live and learning to make good decisions. How do we learn to make good decisions? Usually by making bad ones. Thus, the need to quit. If you’re driving and you get lost and head down the wrong way, you don’t just decide to keep going because you don’t want to quit.  You stop and change course so that you can get to your destination.

Sometimes the best way to stand out from the crowd and get notcied is to be the one who notices what's missing. Or even better what need is not being met by anyone else. It is in this gap that many breakthroughs in business occur. Often it ends up being a personal need or problem we have that is unmet that drives us to imagine what life would be like if a solution existed.

Keeping our business and personal lives separate is a major issue for many business owners, especially home-based ones. Without clear, defined boundaries, each aspect can easily bleed into the other making both a muddy mess. In addition, there’s always a feeling of some distracting energy nearby pulling at our attention and reducing the intensity of focus necessary for important projects.