get scared: What will happen to me? I’ll go broke! Or be lonely! Or get sick! Practice dealing with uncertainty is the only way (cc: Jonathan Fields) to get comfortable with this fear. Everything is either an obstacle to growth, or an obstacle to keep you from growing. The good thing is: you get to choose. ARGUMENTS. Bosses won’t want you to quit. Colleagues will get scared because it means change is forced on them. And depending on your change, maybe family is unhappy (when I was thrown out of school, my family was certainly unhappy). Whoever wrote your script will be unhappy. You’re changing the movie. There’s NOTHING to say to the people who argue with you. Because they are right also. In their life situations, it’s very right for THEM for you not to quit. Why argue with them? Conserve your energy for your change, not for the weights on your back that will try to hold you down. GUILT. Let’s say you are leaving a relationship or a job or an agreement. I can tell you: someone is ready to make you feel guilty about this. It’s hard not to feel guilt, particularly if someone is sad because of “what you are doing to them”. But much worse is the guilt you will feel if you don’t make the change your body and the universe is telling you to make. The universe is much bigger than the person on the other side. To go against that flow will make you sink and drown.