Find Employment Opportunities in a Recession
A Positive Attitude is Good Job Advice -- The Law of Attraction
Feb 10, 2009
News reports trumpet unemployment and the daily loss of thousands of jobs around the world. The outlook appears bleak for someone seeking employment opportunities. News reports focus on job losses, corporate bankruptcies, and state and local government budget cuts, magnifying the negative news by repetition and emphasis.
Recent reports show U.S. unemployment levels hovering around seven percent. Jon Gordon, motivational speaker and author of positive attitude books such as The No Complaining Rule and The Energy Bus, points out in a recent newsletter that seven percent unemployment also means that 93 percent have jobs–not just a spin on the facts, but a more balanced view of the opportunities available to someone seeking employment.
Natural Negative Feelings of Unemployment
As Gordon points out, someone who has recently lost a job will naturally feel anger, frustration, and fear at the situation. However, he advises that one not remain with these feelings too long. Having a negative attitude toward employment possibilities will impede the search for a new job.
Though one may feel justified in remaining angry, resentful, and victimized at the sudden loss of a job amidst a bleak employment environment, this is a time for faith, confidence, and a positive approach to the future.
Faith from Spirituality, Science, or the Law of Attraction
Whether one's faith is based in religion, spirituality, Positive Psychology, the Law of Attraction, or a combination of these, the wisdom of leaders from all of these areas of knowledge provide similar job advice.
Employment Advice - Finding a Job
Build a psychological and emotional foundation for a successful job search with this employment advice:
- Have faith in the future. Faith in the future reduces fear and anxiety and frees one to be creative, open to alternatives, and receptive to positive solutions..
- Be open to opportunities. The old saw, "When one door closes, another opens," exemplifies the combination of having faith and being open. If one is consumed with the negative thoughts of anger, frustration, and victimization, opportunities can present themselves and be unrecognized.
- Be confident of skills and abilities . Everyone is very, very good at some things. These core strengths are powerful tools for success and are the unique competencies one can build upon for a successful future. Focusing on strengths can remind a person of their competencies and inspire renewed confidence.
- Seek emotional support. Though human connection is always important to one's well-being, it is especially important in times of emotional distress. Be careful, though, to associate with those who provide positive emotional support. It may be comforting to be surrounded by people who commiserate and reinforce anger, frustration, and negativity, but it will be counter-productive to the goal.
- Create a future with positive visions of success. Positive psychology research studies indicate that those with faith in the future and a positive attitude are more successful and happier than those with negative outlooks. Spiritual leaders attribute these results to the Law of Attraction, an energy phenomenon explaining that positive thinking attracts positive results, and vice-versa.
- Take action. Positive attitude, confidence, and a vision are only helpful in finding employment if action is taken.
Faith, Positive Attitude, and Action
When the actions one takes in finding a job are leveraged on positive attitudes, faith, and confidence, they are more powerful and likely to succeed.
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