Employment after 60. Change the way you think.

"Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives." Sidney Madwed

It is said we are what we eat. If we apply that same concept to our minds, can it be true that we become what we think? Does our perception of ourselves, right or wrong, have such a profound effect that it can actually change what we are by just our believing it? Reality, whatever that may be for an individual can be determined by what they believe to be true. So if we change what we think, we can change what we are.

Keeping positive thoughts can be difficult after months of sending out resumes and not a single interview to show for it. The important thing is to stay current, and keep changing our focus and goals as the job market changes. Unfortunately, if we become stuck we will not move forward. Feeling sorry for ourselves because things have not turned out the way we thought they would, will only make us stagnant. I was listening to a motivational tape where the speaker was talking about a man who lost his job and after almost a year, he had still not found a new one. The man had a bad attitude. The speaker called it "Stinking Thinking ". The jobless man could not move past his anger and fears, and that "stinking thinking" mentality came through in his cover letters and interviews. The 'stinking thinker" is much like one who eats garlic for dinner, and then offends everyone with their bad breath. "Stinking Thinking" will ooze out of every pore of your being and you will find everyone trying to avoid you.

Thus if we agree that positive thoughts bring positive results in our life, perhaps the first thing to do is look inward and deal with the source of those negative thoughts.  Many times if we do not know how to proceed, we freeze and become incapable of any sort of action. The single most effective tool to move forward might be to start doing something, ANYTHING. Make a course of action and start moving on it, no matter how feeble it might seem at the time. Once we set a plan in action, positive thoughts will follow, and we may be in a far better frame of mind to continue planning our path. We will at least rid ourselves of the guilt involved with doing nothing. Action can lead us to redefine what is important in our life; making the path, we should take even clearer to us.

Thanks, Leighlee




Power of Positive Thinking