How to Use the Law of Attraction in Your Job Search

January 29, 2012 | Author: admin-sextant

“Our brains become magnetized with the dominating thoughts which we hold in our minds, and, by means with which no man is familiar, these “magnets” attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”

Attract a job like a magnet attracts metal

~Napoleon Hill

Our thoughts are magnets that attract the thoughts we are thinking.  Even if you want something desperately, if your thoughts say you will never get it.  Guess what? You won’t.  However, if you change your thoughts on achieving it, you will.  Mostly because if your thoughts are laser focused on getting it, you will do the right things in order to attain it.  This principle can be applied to many areas of your life.  Whether it is getting well, losing weight, quit smoking, competing at peak levels or finding a job, your attitude is crucial to success.  Believing you can do something provides the strength and stamina to overcome the obstacles in your path.  Positive thinking propels a small engine successfully up a mighty hill and you to landing your dream job.

This principle can be applied to your job search.  By changing your thoughts, you will reach your goal.  Notice the attitudes of successful candidates.  They are positive and enthusiastic.  They keep their heads up high and smile. They believe from the bottom of their being they will get a job.  The unsuccessful candidates walk around saying there aren’t any jobs, they will never find anything and other such thoughts.

How to use the Law of Attraction to your job search:

  • Think positively.  Deep down positively not just on the surface.  You can’t just say you are thinking positively.
  • Believe in you.  Don’t allow others bring you down.  You have the power.
  • Align what you think and what you do to what you want.  It won’t work if your actions and thoughts are contradictory to the goal.  If you don’t think you will get it, you won’t do what it takes to get it.
  • Know you are going to get a job. Talk about when you get a job rather than if you get a job.
  • Write down what your ideal job is. Concentrate on it.
  • Imagine doing that job.  Use guided imagery to assist in this step.
  • Don’t allow yourself to become discouraged.  If you do, look for all the positive things in your life, and focus on them.

As with all things, practice makes perfect.  If you aren’t used to thinking this way, it will take some getting used to but continue working on it.  Success will be yours if you do.

“You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in harmony with your dominant thoughts.” ~Brian Tracy

Arleen Bradley is a certified career coach and certified job loss recovery coach.  She assists clients in moving beyond job loss grief in order to land dream jobs using the Job Loss Recovery Program.  The Job Loss Recovery Program uses guided imagery to achieve results. To learn more about the Job Loss Recovery Program and how you can benefit from it, log on to   www.arleenbradley.com.

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What World Class Athletes Can Teach Job Searchers To Achieve Success.

January 21, 2012 | Author: admin-sextant

Have you ever seen a world class athlete before their event?  If you have, you might have seen them with their eyes closed and head moving.  What they’re doing is not some weird superstitious ritual before competing.  They are performing their competition in their head.  Every movement their body will make is pictured along with any feeling they have to go along with the action.  Included will be any sounds they will hear, smells in the venue, and the feel of their clothing on their skin.  This valuable exercise is as valuable to them as the time they spend practicing.  They will do this several times during the day.  It is a way of practicing without being out on the slopes.  It can be done anywhere at any time.  They can practice while waiting for something, taking a plane to a race, or just sitting at home.

What they are doing is called guided imagery.   If you imagine you are doing something and you include all five senses, sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, your subconscious can’t tell the difference between reality and imagination.  Guided imagery misleads your autonomic system into believing that what you are doing is real.   As a result of this trickery, you get the expected benefit.

If you could read this with your eyes closed, I would tell you to close your eyes and think of a restful place.  Imagine you are sitting in a chair on warm, silvery sand next to a beautiful, blue ocean while the smell of the salty air fills your nostrils. You can hear waves gently run to the beach and then pull back into the sea.  You can feel warm tropical breezes blowing across you cooling your warm skin.  The taste of coconut lingers sweetly on your tongue.  You feel your tense muscles softening in the peaceful, restful atmosphere while your body melts into the lounge chair.  You didn’t go to a sunny, tropical beach, and sip pina coladas.  But through guided imagery your mind thinks you did.  If this had been an actual session, you would feel relaxed, warm, and tasting coconut.

Guided imagery has many uses including relaxation, stopping habits, performance enhancement and for improving health by relieving pain and rapid healing.  Research shows that guided imagery can decrease/manage stress, increase your confidence and self-esteem.

Job searchers use guided imagery to eliminate them of job loss trauma; forgive and forget any injustices they have experienced; and practice job search skills.  The job searchers who practice guided imagery are more likely to obtain jobs more quickly than those who don’t.  A study by Dr. Lynn Joseph showed that over 60% of participants in a study using guided imagery for job searchers obtained jobs within two months.  Only 12% of the control group obtained jobs in the same time frame using another method.

One of the last things an athletes imagines at the end of their session is standing in the winners area receiving the accolades due them.  This success has been dreamed of since a young age.  Job searchers imagine accepting a new job that comes with a regular paycheck.    They, too, have been dreaming of this goal for a long time.

Arleen Bradley is a certified career coach and certified job loss recovery coach.  She assists clients in moving beyond job loss grief in order to land dream jobs using guided imagery.  The Job Loss Recovery Program uses guided imagery to achieve these results.  To learn more about the Job Loss Recovery Program and how you can benefit from it, log on to   www.arleenbradley.com.

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Day Dreaming + Job Searching = New Job

January 16, 2012 | Author: admin-sextant

Remember in grade school when you were daydreaming because you weren’t interested in what things a country imported or exported.  Or in high school when the teacher was talking about just about anything and your daydreams were on the cute boy/girl who was the focus of your attention that week.   In college, instead of listening to the professor you were thinking about spring break.  As an adult, the last business meeting was a blur because your mind was on nothing even close to the matter at hand.  Now, that you are unemployed your thoughts are where you are going to find another job and when because you can’t take the stress anymore.

I don’t think I have to go into detail about the connection between job loss and suffering it causes.  There are many reports, articles and the like talking about the negative effects.  The people I know are highly discouraged; some have gained weight; some are in treatment for sleep disorders; while others are on various medications; and they all want to go back to work.  Many have lost self-confidence and self-esteem.  They fear their skills are eroding and/or no one will ever hire them again.  The ones who are most affected are the ones who have only had one job their entire adult life.  The skills they have are not up-to-date by today’s standards and they don’t know how to look for a job.

The Job Loss Recovery Program by Lynn Joseph, Ph.D. tackles the problem most people are only reporting.  Dr. Joseph uses guided imagery to reduce the distress from job loss trauma.  She uses the technique to get you to relax.  Once relaxed, you are able to access your imagination in order to put the past behind you and start focusing on what is ahead.  An important part of the program is guided imagery.  Belleruth Naperstek, LISW, BCD, calls guided imagery “deliberate daydreaming.”  That title describes the protocol accurately.  Guided imagery is daydreaming with a purpose.  Studies show that it is used successfully to speed up healing various ailments, stop smoking, reduce pain, and many uses.  For the job searcher, it can do three things.  One, reduce the amount of stress that is felt, two, resolve feelings of anger, and resentment toward your former employer, and three, prepare for interviews.

I think the most remarkable feature of the program is that it moves you past the anger and resentment you feel toward your past employer.  This is critical to your job search.  You no longer have negative and resentful feelings that are evident in interviews and networking.  Looking for a job before you have resolved these issues is more complex and frustrating.  Your attitude must be positive and your mind focused for a successful search.

In the coming weeks, I will talk more about how guided imagery in the Job Loss Recovery Program can reduce the stress found in job loss and how it can help you get a job much quicker.  In the meantime, start daydreaming about the job you want.

Arleen Bradley is a certified career coach and certified job loss recovery coach.  She assists clients in moving beyond job loss grief in order to land dream jobs.  To learn more about the Job Loss Recovery Program and how you can benefit from it, log on to   www.arleenbradley.com.

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Surviving Unemployment: Are You Holding onto Something You Should Let Go Of?

January 8, 2012 | Author: admin-sextant

There are some things that get better with time; a fine wine; a broken bone; or a loving relationship.  Then there are the things that don’t; leftovers; overnight guests; and anger.  In fact, the latter gets rank the longer they hang on.  We like hanging on to things regardless of whether they get better or worse over time.  We don’t like change, or to let go of things.

The things we hold on to drag us down.  They prevent us from moving on.  It isn’t just things but also our thoughts.   In movies about settling the west, the pioneers move across the prairie in over-loaded covered wagons to settle in new lands.  They brought with them all their possessions of their past life.  But then the wagon axle breaks, and in order to go to their new life they have to let go of some of their belongs.  Things they were hoping to bring them comfort and pleasure later on have to be released.

When the decision was stay stuck in the middle of nowhere or get rid of stuff, they quickly chose to part with what was going to keep them from moving on.  Although I’m sure it was reluctantly and maybe even some tears, they did it.  They had to.  They had a life waiting to start.

Well you’re not traveling in a covered wagon across the prairie.  But you are a trying to blaze a trail for yourself.  However, it seems like everyone has some input in your path.  Your spouse, children, parents, friends, and managers impact your course.  A manager determined that you would be employed by a company.   Then at some point someone  decided that your position should be eliminated thrusting you into unemployment.  This action hurt and angered you.  You felt betrayed.  Your self-esteem suffered.  Although it has been a while now, you are still holding on to the resentment and hostility against your manager.

These negative feelings can weigh you down and prevent you from moving on which shows up in your appearance and demeanor.  You make excuses for not looking for a job.  Or when you hear of one you have many reasons for not going after it.  It’s too far, too close; you are not qualified, over qualified;  or other such reasons.  Or you do pursue it, and you don’t get the job.   This just drags you down further.  And the cycle continues.  There is an air about you that doesn’t show enthusiasm and energy.  There is a flatness about you that shows up and is holding you back.

Forgiving the person responsible for your lay off is required to break the anger, resentment and discontent you feel.  After you let go these feelings, you will feel better about yourself and your demeanor will improve as your attitude improves.  It isn’t an easy task, but it is well worth the time and effort you put into it.  When you start showing enthusiasm and energy, your job search will benefit from your improved outlook.   For one thing, you will be more responsive to new opportunities.

There may be a comfort in holding on to what is familiar, but comfort can’t be found in waiting for your life to begin.  Like the pioneers of old who tossed their excess baggage, tossing out your unnecessary feelings will take you to the life that’s waiting for you.

 

Arleen Bradley is a certified career coach and certified job loss recovery coach.  She assists clients in moving beyond job loss grief in order to land dream jobs.  To learn more about the Job Loss Recovery Program and how you can benefit from it, log on to   www.arleenbradley.com.

 

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