PB090: 4 Questions to Ask Before Quitting Your Blog or Online Project

Note: you can listen to this episode above or load it up in iTunes. How to Decide When to Give Up On Your Blog, Business, or Project This is the third podcast in a miniseries about what you need to do to find success as a blogger on online entrepreneur. The first episode was about the importance of establishing the habit of starting new things, instead of just coming up with great ideas and thinking about them. The second episode was about the importance of persisting. Today's episode is about how to decide whether now is the time to quit your blog, business or project. There is definitely a time to quit a project; it's a part of life. But timing your quitting can be important! I share my own personal experience, as well as questions you can ask yourself to work out what is right for you.  In This Episode You can listen to today's episode above or in iTunes or Stitcher (where we'd also LOVE to get your reviews on those platforms if you have a moment). In today's episode: Inspirational quotes about the benefits of persistence Why you should ask yourself if it's time to quit 4 questions to ask yourself to help you decide if it's time to stop How to decide if you should be quitting, or just slightly changing direction - and real life examples of people who have done this successfully Further Reading and Resources for How to Decide When to Give Up On Your Blog, Business, or Project Other episodes in this miniseries on the important things bloggers/online entrepreneurs should do to find success: Part 1 - The Most Important Thing You Will Ever Do as an Entrepreneur - Podcast Episode 88 Part 2 - The Second Most Important Thing You’ll Ever Do as an Entrepreneur - Podcast Episode 89 Real life examples of people who have successfully 'pivoted' or changed direction: Ignite Your Blog Growth to Take off with These Actions, by Donna Moritz at Socially Sorted 5 Most Important Writing Lessons Learned After Pivoting Our Blog Twice, by Buffer Social Full Transcript Expand to view full transcript Compress to smaller transcript view Hi there and welcome to episode 90 of the ProBlogger podcast. My name’s Darren Rowse. Today, I want to talk about quitting. I think it’s actually an important thing that most bloggers and online entrepreneurs need to do at one time or another. I want to talk about how to decide whether now is the right time to quit or whether there’s a different approach that you can take in the situation that you find yourself in. You can find today’s show notes at problogger.com/podcast/90. Let’s talk about quitting. It’s not something that really is the most uplifting topic in some ways and it’s something that a lot of people avoid really talking about. As we’ve talked about in the last podcast, persisting is something that is very common in entrepreneurial advice. This podcast really comes about because I wasn’t satisfied that the last two podcasts had it all in it. Those of you who are joining us now might want to go back and listen to episode 88 where I talked about the most important thing online entrepreneurs need to do and that is starting. Then in episode 89, I talked about the second most important thing we need to do as entrepreneurs and that is persisting, and I told the story of the Cavanagh brothers who struck gold simply because I persisted longer than anyone else. I truly believe that those two things are just so important and as entrepreneurs, we really need to focus upon those things. We need to be starters, we need to have a mindset of starting, we need to be ‘persisters’. This is good solid advice and it’s no wonder that it features in many entrepreneurial teachings. I found some quotes as well; I was going to share in the last episode as well. I love this one from Albert Einstein, “It’s not that I’m so smart; it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” He persists.