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Creating Your Dream Job

Failure is an Illusion A job search can be one of the most emotionally charged and challenging processes that we face. Throughout a job search, we carry faith, excitement, and hope in the same basket with doubt, uncertainty, and fear. If we choose to experience a lack of immediate success as failure when resumes don’t get a response or we are not invited back after an interview, our sense of self-worth is diminished, and we can create a downward spiral. If we focus on failure, we create more failure. Instead, we can choose to recast rejection as simply a lack of immediate success and turn it into progress by applauding our efforts, celebrating what we’ve learned, and practicing gratitude. We can create an upward spiral of success by focusing on our internal, rather than external, progress.

Creating Your Dream Job

Direction is Always Available All around us, direction and creation are evident – in the growth of plants in the spring and the harvest in the fall, in birth and death, in the migration of the birds and butterflies, in our own growth as children learning language, in the growth and evolution of our bodies. Everywhere we look, growth, creation, and change surrounds us, and the natural laws of the universe support it. Why do we think we are so different? We can choose to continue to let our fears define our choices and blind us to guidance that directs us beyond the range of our beliefs, or we can consciously look for direction and trust our intuition. Abundance surrounds us. “Lack” lives in only our minds.

Creating Your Dream Job

Resistance is Futile Resistance gets us nowhere, but we all experience it. Once we understand and learn to sort out resistance as one of the many voices in our mind, we can more easily let it go. The mind is full of chatter that runs on and on with the inventory, judgments, and complaints that have become second nature to us over a lifetime. If we listen to the mind for our guidance, we will stay exactly where we are—it matters not to the mind whether we are happy or unhappy. The mind continually repeats what it already knows, and within the mind, we have a lot of unlearning to do. Because the job search is one of the most emotionally charged and challenging processes that we face, resistance is to be expected. Acknowledge it, release it, and over time it will become nothing more than background chatter.