6 Figure Career Management

If you have a warm home, a soft bed, food in the fridge, clean clothes, family and friends – then you have a lot to be thankful for. Two-thirds of the world’s population would think they’d won the lottery if they were in your shoes. If you have a college education, own a car, a phone and have internet access then you’re far more privileged than about 90% of the people on the planet.

Keep that in mind the next time you find yourself complaining about the state of the economy, the job market and your prolonged job search. No matter how bad a day, week or year you’re having, you’re still in a pretty privileged place right now.

This is far more than a ‘you gotta stay positive’ message. Developing the right attitude is the foundation of your job search - without it, you will struggle to get back into the right job in the current economic climate.

Gratitude doesn’t magically change the situation you’re in. It does something much more important - it changes your perspective on your situation in a way that gives you an instant lift. A mini boost in confidence.

When you’re job searching, the feel good factor and “little boosts’ in confidence are what you survive on. Seeing your perfect job being advertised, meeting a new contact with a job lead or being invited for a job interview are the types of fuel that keep you going on your worst days.

The problem with fuelling yourself only on these external events is that they are out your control. So how you feel, will be determined by events in your environment.  You have good days when there is ‘good news’, bad days when you don’t. A far more productive way to operate is to give yourself a regular ’shot’ of confidence and feel good factor by choosing to be grateful on a day to day basis. By doing so, you instantly change your own emotions and give yourself the mental and emotional fuel to accelerate your job search.

It’s so easy to sit around with a ‘poor me’ attitude. Aside from making you feel worse, it also slows down your job search. So instead, start developing a habit of being grateful for what you have, for what is going well. It will start to build your level of mental and emotional fitness which in turn will absolutely speed up your job search.