get in touch: sarah@quittingquadrant.com
What if quitting was a skill we could master?
The Quitting Quadrant ® is a self-led, check-in tool for all your projects so you can make a success of the ones that light you up, and have the courage to let go of the ones that don't.
Less guilt, more living your life.
A QQ workshop at Learnfest 2018
The Why
Many of us wait until things go wrong before we ask ourselves how we really feel about a project.
Often by that point it's too late to do something about it: we are already burned out or resentful, have plateaued or become apathetic.
What if there was a tool that could allow us to regularly check in with our projects, jobs and responsibilities, so we could be more aware of what we need along the way and avoid these unnecessary downward spirals?
Often by that point it's too late to do something about it: we are already burned out or resentful, have plateaued or become apathetic.
What if there was a tool that could allow us to regularly check in with our projects, jobs and responsibilities, so we could be more aware of what we need along the way and avoid these unnecessary downward spirals?
Presenting the model to a C-Suite audience in Google Zurich in 2019
Work with me
I use the model to support indiviudals and teams to make transformational changes.
- I've coached multi-potentialites 1:1, who are wondering which of their many projects to quit.
- I've delivered the model as keynote to a C-Suite audience at Google, around the topic of disruption.
- I've run an interactive workshop at a conference for global heads of Learning & Development and HR, to discuss how the stigma around quitting was impacting retention and well-being.
- I've run talks to entrepreneurs on accelerators, to help them reconnect with their why.
- I've run this as a lunch + learn and part of well-being weeks for various companies across the globe.
How the model came about...
The Quitting Quadrant ® was designed by TEDx speaker Sarah Weiler in 2018, when she was trying to work out whether to quit an acting course she was on; not knowing if the discomfort was a sign to give up or push through.
Sarah knew that in the past she had pushed on too long when actually things were just not for her. Equally at times she'd moved on, when actually there was a huge learning opportunity in the discomfort, if she'd just stayed a little longer.
Sarah knew that in the past she had pushed on too long when actually things were just not for her. Equally at times she'd moved on, when actually there was a huge learning opportunity in the discomfort, if she'd just stayed a little longer.
She wanted there to be a way to take the emotion out of the quitting process and ask honestly 'what is going on right now?' so that she could navigate the quitting process better and make a decision that felt right.
This is the Quitting Quadrant ®.
My TEDx ''Knowing When to Quit'' in 2018.
About Sarah
Sarah has spent the last 14 years teaching, facilitating and coaching all over the world and working hard to build a life full of activities that make her feel alive.
These include: Power of Uke (using the ukulele to access Growth Mindset and Creativity in corporate organisations like Google and PWC), Rye Laughs Comedy night, DJing at Glasto, writing and performing musical comedy, career and life coaching, teaching money mindset, becoming a TEDx speaker, and creating both the Quitting Quadrant and Carousel models. With all of these projects, she's had to get really good at Quitting to allow space for the new.
These include: Power of Uke (using the ukulele to access Growth Mindset and Creativity in corporate organisations like Google and PWC), Rye Laughs Comedy night, DJing at Glasto, writing and performing musical comedy, career and life coaching, teaching money mindset, becoming a TEDx speaker, and creating both the Quitting Quadrant and Carousel models. With all of these projects, she's had to get really good at Quitting to allow space for the new.
In the modern world of multi-potentialites, portfolio careers and a rapidly changing work environment, quitting is now an inevitability. Rather than fearing it and avoiding it, it's a skill we must get good at.
Sarah is fascinated by what it takes to be a 'good' quitter, and is currently writing a book to support people to feel better equipped to deal with letting things go.
Her podcast 'Knowing When to Quit' is now out on Apple podcasts.