Ease your way through career
change “An emotional survival kit”.
Following is an emotional survival kit filled with
three tools to help navigate you through this transition
Acknowledge your emotions
Change
of any kind stirs
all types of emotions, whether its
change you’ve chosen or change that’s been
forced upon you. Acknowledge the
emotions, feel them and release. If you
don’t, the emotions will hold you back.
What you hide from will run you.
And dwelling on emotion will keep you struck. Give emotions the importance they deserve
Talk to a trusted friend. Write about
your feelings Cry, Get angry, feel the fear.
Do something physical to release them.
Unresolved anger will take expression in different from which can be
harmful.
Monitor your thoughts
What
you focus on gets bigger. If you have negative thoughts you will get negative
results. If you have positive thoughts then
you will get positive results. Keep a
sharp look at your thoughts and self
talks. Thinking “No one will hire me at my age will not move on to success “. Thinking They are
fortunate to hire me will all
my wisdom and experience “ will. Thoughts
are a self fulfilling prophecy. Make
sure you maintain a positive attitude. Reframe
those negative thoughts into positive once.
Consider the possibilities.
Get together
with your friends and family. Brainstorm
all the possibilities that are new
opening up to you, such as starting
a home based business, temporary or part
time work, changing carriers going
back to school, contract work,
taking time off to
with family, traveling, turning a hobby in to a business and soon.
Get outrageous. Be excited. The
sky is the limit.
Continuously
acknowledge your emotions
and monitor your thoughts so that you can be fully
open to consider the
possibilities This is an ongoing process If you let your
heavy emotions and negative
thoughts camp out rent free
in your consciousness then you won’t
have the space available
for the possibilities to shine through
More tools to ease your
way through career change
These three tools
complement your emotional
survival kit to help you more
into your new career as quickly
and as easily as possible.
Take
stock of your finances
Identify your monthly expenses. Determine
what you have in
savings and investments. Eliminate unnecessary expenses. Ask for financial help if you need it. Knowledge
brings with it please of mind. Find out exactly
what you have, what you will need and how or where to get it. Expert advice is often
just what you need to get you where you want to go. Move quickly and easily and with less stress
Use
available resources
They can be is the
form of skills, training for resume writing, interviewing techniques and salary negotiation There can
also be employee assistance programme’s,
career planning workshop and online career programs.
Get
experts Help
You don’t need to carry the load all by yourself and loved
ones can be limited in the counsel they give.
Expert and objective assistance
is often just the
catalyst you need to get you where
you want to go more quickly
and easily and with less stress. Getting bogged down in the emotions? Go to a
therapist. Can’t figure out your
finances? See a financial planner.
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