by Glenn Magas

Created on: December 05, 2009

Unless you are financially free, quitting your job will impact your way of life drastically. Seeking opportunity elsewhere before you quit your job is ideal, but sometimes there is a need to let go and move on to something better.

Here are 3 incredible steps to make sure you do before you quit your job. Each will either bring you 'more' satisfaction to your current position, or prepare you to succeed in a new one.

1) Establish a change of attitude
2) Treat your job as a temporary position
3) Use your job as a training ground

Each step leads to the other whether a worker decides to accept their job or look for another one. The first step is absolutely important as you create motivation in the workplace and eventually motivation to move on if you quit your job!

1) Establish a change of attitude

"Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force." Tom Blandi

If you lack focus and have a negative attitude at your job, problems arise. Motivation in the workplace is replaced with crises management. This negativity is incredibly influential. One negative worker can infect nine positive ones.

The change of attitude is an important state of mind. The goal: to tolerate the job or change the job. 100% effort is needed in this change or the next two steps will be difficult. But before you change the job, even if you are determined to leave your current one, establish a change of attitude!

2) Treat your job as a temporary position

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all." Dale Carnegie

Make the choice to give 100% in your job but also convince yourself the job is temporary. Once you commit and create strong motivation in the workplace, opportunities will begin to open up.

It is your preparation for something 'new and improved' but first, commit and realize your commitment is only temporary because something better will come along!

If you know your job is temporary, it goes from being unbearable to being tolerable. It is important to take these steps. You may end up 'loving' your job once you change your attitude and begin treating it like a temp position. At this point it is important to change your attitude, make it tolerable, and think that it is only temporary with something better at the end of the tunnel.

3) Use your job as

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