Using negative thinking to gain positive action!!

DREAM: WORK WITH GOOD PAY

Negatives:

1. Skills: Shortages or Over skilled
2. Fear of Rejection – Disillusion
3. Our Efforts may not be fruitful
4. Limited Thinking
5. Dropping Salaries in the Market
6. Jobs not openly advertised
7. Financial pressure to take the wrong job
8. No Jobs

ACTION

Negative: 1. Skills:Shortages or Over Skilled

Action: Under skilled

• Up skill for 1 to 2 years to be ready for a good job in the recovery
• Make sure courses pursued are appropriate to the industry
• Make ourselves more marketable by having extra qualifications
• Gain Work Experience with courses (to get foot in the door)

Over Skilled

• Widen Category
• Tailor CV to suit job
• Use skills to create a new, potential work

Negative:2. Fear of Rejection – Disillusion

Action:

• Use all of the above
• Keep up Activities
• Put together a daily Job Plan (Business Development Plan) to make our job seeking our own personal ‘business’
• Read widely
• Ensure rejections make us more determined to get that work
• Count our blessings
• Create a positive list
• Create new Questions

Negative:3. Our efforts may not be fruitful

Action:

• Change our attitude: questions: manner
• Change how we do things – change the venues where we seek work, the type of work we seek, the market, etc
• Post on the Blog
• Contribute to the Blog
• Ask ‘Why’ at interviews, where we are not successful and learn from the responses

Negative:4. Limited Thinking

Action:

• Talk to Others
• Network
• Create a Plan/Vision
• Set Goals and test weekly where we are achieving on these goals
• Brainstorm
• Avoid negative influences
• Create a new language to develop our new thinking

Negative:5. Dropping Salaries in the market

Action:

• Accept this reality
• Acknowledge that costs are dropping also
• Work out a budget
• Find new providers for our bill paying
• Think Long Term Prospects
• Look at government grants:
• Enterprise Ireland
• Enterprise Boards
• Negotiate renumeration according to excellent performance (be creative)

Negative:6. Jobs not openly advertised/not real

Action:

• Eliminate wrong searches
• Target (only) the business we require
• Join Linked-in or other social media groups
• Create a Real Plan to Target Real Jobs

Negative:7. Financial Pressure to take the wrong job

Action:

• Control financial outgoings
• Change Lifestyle – do simple stuff with no or low cost
• Be Creative with finances
• Barter with other professions for needs
• Use all facilities – source and resource

Negative:8. No Jobs

Action:

NO NEED

The Group feels that if all the actions cited above are carried through, then the most difficult negative to overcome – NO JOBS – will not exist.

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Well done everyone and I hope you will use these ideas and many more.

Best of luck

Valerie

Footnote:

These are the notes of a facilitation with Valerie Pierce, Director of Clear & Critical Thinking Ltd, using her training technique to change negative thinking into positive action.

To contact Valerie, please visit her website www.clearcriticalthinking.com