Knowing when to leave is a skill nobody teaches, and almost everyone learns late.

Sunk cost is a cruel accountant. Three years in a role, two years in a venture, and the years themselves become the argument for staying, as though time already spent could be recovered by spending more.

Ask a cleaner question. If you were offered this exact position today, knowing everything you now know, would you accept it? The answer usually arrives before you finish asking.

Leaving well matters too. Give notice, hand over properly, keep the bridges intact. Reputations travel faster than CVs, and you will meet these people again.

Loyalty to a season you have outgrown is not integrity, it is inertia.

Today’s action

Ask whether you would accept your current role again today, and write the honest answer down.

Reflect

Today’s affirmation

I can tell the difference between loyalty and inertia. Staying in a season I have outgrown is not integrity, and I am honest with myself about which one I am in.

Say it. Then send it to someone who needs it.

This week’s book

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Finance

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Nineteen short stories arguing that financial success is a soft skill: how you behave matters far more than what you know.

★★★★★

Today’s nugget

Housel's thesis is that doing well with money has little to do with how clever you are and a great deal to do with how you behave.

Morgan Housel

Life insight

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Family

Hold the Family Meeting Before the Hospital Call

Your parents are ageing and nobody in your family has ever discussed who does what when something happens. The current plan is that whoever answers the phone first panics.

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What Being is

Being is a daily wisdom app for faith-anchored professionals, students, parents and entrepreneurs in Nigeria and the African diaspora. It publishes one piece every morning: a short, practical reading you can finish in under two minutes, ending in a single action you can complete the same day.

Everyone reading Being sees the same piece on the same date, resolved in their own timezone. Alongside the daily reading there are book summaries — the working ideas from a book, with an honest note on where it falls short — and life insights covering career, business, finance, family, parenting, academics and faith.

Roughly one piece in four is explicitly rooted in faith. The rest is practical and needs no faith commitment to be useful. Nothing here is motivational filler: every piece has to be true, has to respect your intelligence, and has to leave you with something to do or think differently about.

Where the name comes from

The name is taken from Acts 17:28 — “In him we live and move and have our being.” It is a reminder that we are not accidents, and that we are not defined by our productivity or our failures. We exist within something greater, and that ought to shape how an ordinary Tuesday is spent.

Being is published by Techly Marketing Limited in Lagos, Nigeria. You can read more in about Being.

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