Why I’m Quitting My Amazing Job Without a Real Plan

Hi. I'm Reyna. I'm quitting my picture perfect, amazing job.

I work at one of those hip and progressive tech places where they geek out on dreaming and feed you endlessly.

Yes, that's a football field. Yes, there's a real dream room staffed by a real Dream Manager.

I'm honestly surrounded by the smartest humans in the world.

I feel valued. I feel fairly-compensated. The work I do provides purpose and pride.

Here's the thing. There's always a thing, right?

The thing: I stumbled upon manifesting.

Wait. Before I lose you with the woo-woo word manifesting, hear me out.

WORKING BACKWARDS

With this process, I hyper-focused on who I would be 10 years from now. I created the most amazing version of me. I created the stories she had. I envisioned where she had traveled.
I created her laugh lines and sun spots. I put her on a pedestal of bad-assery.

The hypothetical me in 10 years is so cool. I am bursting with excitement with who she is.

This is where my light bulb went off.

Even though I'm perfectly happy with where I am right now, there's no way the path that I'm on takes me to hypothetical awesome me. Insert mind-blown emoji here.

MATH

I've never really been great at math, but this equation didn't compute.

Mantra: Present Version Me Plus 10 More Years Doing What I'm Doing Does Not Equal Bad Ass Me

When I reverse engineer the life I want with my present job in the mix: salary, time off, creativity, it just doesn't compute.

Work backwards.

The kicker is I'm not 100% sure what I'm going to do for the sake of income. I'll probably manifest that too.

What I know is I can't stay where I'm at any longer. Because it's not on my path. I'm not going to get where I want where I am.

AIRPLANES

Courage occurs to me like this: When we make a drastic change in life, it's kinda like jumping out of an airplane. We want to get the plane as close to the ground as possible before we jump, but we still have to jump out a freaking airplane.

So I'm jumping. I'm closing my eyes, and I'm taking the next small step before I have a chance to change my mind. Or get scared. Or self-doubt catches up with my logic.

There you go. That's the why.

Does that ring true with you? When you envision the version of you 10 years from, are you really on the right path? Does a + b = c?

We usually make changes in our life when the pain is too great. I encourage you as you read this to possibly evaluate a situation if your life where there isn't a great deal of pain, but it isn't leading you to the happiest and greatest version of yourself.

CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE

Yes, it has come to my attention that "Make It Rain" originates from a vulgar rap song referencing dollar bills and strippers. But, come on.  It's punny!

I hereby intentionally declare the "Make It Rain" narrative altered. From this moment on, this site is dedicated to creating the life you want.

The adventures and lessons are yet to come on my hot and fresh journey.

I'll fill this blog with:
fembot entrepreneur adventures
hard lessons learned
inter-continental escapades
Cheers to your adventure,

xoxo

Reyna
PS - Do you like presents? If this math resonates, that image up there is a desktop background for your phone.