Recently, I made a decision to leave my job, my "security", for a position with a promising new company at a reduced rate of pay.

Ever since I left my former place of employment, I have felt relieved, thankful, and peaceful about my decision. This is the first time in my life where I left a comfortable, familiar place because I knew it was time to go and had been willing to venture into "the unknown", a very scary place for me.  I can't tell you what a good feeling it is to choose happiness over security. 

I wish I had known how to make this leap of faith years ago. It would have spared me years of heartache. Not knowing when to say goodbye has always been a challenge for me; I seem to want to "wait things out" and to "endure to the end", but those tactics only left me bitter and full of negative experiences.

This bad "habit" of mine relates to my jobs (I once worked at a company for eight years and hated three of those years, sitting around with nothing to do), places I have lived (I lived in a certain place  for nine years and was miserable) and relationships (I dated a boy for four years and knew from almost the beginning that it was never going to go anywhere).

So, now that I've finally learned my lesson, I am curious to hear from you. What is one thing you wish you had learned years ago that would have saved you a great deal of heartache?