| Losing Your Job Doesn't Make You a Loser! | | | | jobs that are similar to those they've done before |
| | | | only because they have been brainwashed to |
| You were good at your job and loyal to your | | | | believe that's what they must do. Certainly |
| employer. But they let you go anyway. You're | | | | everyone needs to work in order to make |
| trying not to feel angry and betrayed; but the | | | | money to support themselves and their families, |
| truth is, you didn't do anything wrong. You played | | | | but if people truly had a choice, would the jobs |
| the game according to "society's rules," but | | | | they've lost (or left behind) really be the same |
| instead of getting ahead, you're worse off than | | | | jobs they'd want back if they had the opportunity |
| you were before. Now you feel afraid about not | | | | to make a different choice? I believe the answer |
| having enough money to pay your bills and feed | | | | is, "No." |
| your family; and honestly, you don't know how | | | | When reviewing the larger picture of your life, |
| you're going to manage. | | | | what do you see? |
| Whether they realize it or not, most Americans | | | | Certainly the ups and downs of life present us |
| have been brainwashed to believe that their value | | | | with challenges. But many of our challenges are a |
| as a human being is determined by what kind of | | | | result of the wrong thinking indoctrination we |
| job they have, what kind of house they live in, | | | | have been programmed to believe. We believe |
| what kind of car they drive, how they dress, and | | | | happiness is just around the corner if only we do |
| who they choose to marry. So they've spent | | | | this thing or that thing, that happiness will be |
| their entire lives trying to live up to society's | | | | found and the respect of others gained by |
| expectations. | | | | achieving society's goals; that earning enough |
| The harsh truth: You've been brainwashed to feel | | | | money will automatically eliminate all of our other |
| like a failure. | | | | problems. We have been programmed to believe |
| Nobody told you that this mentality based on | | | | that any sacrifices of our physical health, |
| external values could only result in disappointment; | | | | relationships and spiritual well being made while we |
| that you would be only a shadow of what you | | | | seek career success are worth it. But most |
| are capable of being. | | | | people are disappointed to realize after securing |
| The solution: This is your wake-up call , your | | | | their respectable dream job that it does not result |
| opportunity to reevaluate your life, claim your | | | | in the happiness they worked so hard to achieve. |
| birthright and become the person God intended | | | | They realize that they were chasing goals that |
| for you to be. By liberating yourself from | | | | actually prevented them from living in the |
| society's expectations, you can discover what it | | | | NOW-which is all there is. |
| takes for you to feel truly happy and fulfilled. Now | | | | If your obituary were written today, what would |
| you can be free! | | | | it say about your life? How would you want to be |
| You = A Robot | | | | remembered? How would you like your |
| Most people have been trained beginning in | | | | accomplishments in life to be honored? |
| childhood by a reward and punishment system, | | | | Sit down now and write the things that would be |
| not unlike that used with the family dog. It | | | | important to mention about the five key areas of |
| creates a yearning for rewards given for being | | | | life: your job/career, your financial stability, your |
| "good" and a fear of punishment or rejection if | | | | marriage and family, your physical vitality, and the |
| we do not comply with the desires of our | | | | ways you give back to society. |
| authority figures. | | | | I was at a funeral recently for a hard-working |
| Without intending to harm or deceive you, your | | | | man who died in his eighties. For over an hour one |
| parents, family members, schools, teachers, | | | | person after another stood up and conveyed |
| peers, organized religions, and the media trained | | | | memories of their times spent with him. Each |
| you to be a mental slave. You were given | | | | person presented a different observation of the |
| incorrect information, and so you made wrong | | | | man's admirable qualities, based on their personal |
| choices. As you attempted to meet the | | | | interactions with him. No one spoke of his career |
| expectations of other people and gain their | | | | accomplishments or his financial success. Finally, a |
| approval, you also gave up your own individuality | | | | little elderly woman slowly stood up. "In the end," |
| and accepted less than what we truly wanted in | | | | she said, "the best that can be said of him is: He |
| life. | | | | was a good man!" Everyone in the room nodded |
| Still, there remains somewhere within each of us | | | | in agreement. |
| the spark of our own true desires, which cannot | | | | Rewrite the story of your life to be more than |
| be extinguished. When that spark cannot ignite | | | | your job/career. |
| our true passions, we feel uninspired, unfulfilled, | | | | Certainly facing a job/career or financial crisis is |
| anxious, depressed or out of control. We lose the | | | | very scary and stressful. Not knowing when you'll |
| clear connection between God and our true | | | | get your next paycheck or if you'll be able to |
| selves that is called passion. We go through the | | | | hang onto your job (if you still have one) can |
| motions each day like robots. Eventually we may | | | | become an all-consuming worry. But look at the |
| be unaware of all the ways our lives could be | | | | positive side of your situation: If you are struggling |
| different; we are unable to even see what we | | | | in the job market or financially-and perhaps you |
| are missing. We feel like losers. | | | | have nothing to lose-this is a great opportunity to |
| If you have been caught up in an endless cycle of | | | | reinvent your life to be exactly what you want it |
| meaningless activities on the road to nowhere, it's | | | | to be. By seeing that trying to live up to society's |
| not your fault. You didn't know any better. You | | | | expectations did not guarantee your success, or |
| worked at a job you didn't like in order to make | | | | happiness, but only resulted in disappointment and |
| money to buy things you didn't need. You | | | | disillusionment, you are in the most powerful |
| became a slave to financial institutions who tricked | | | | position of your entire life. Instead of being afraid, |
| you and lied to you. Your physical and mental | | | | for one day, allow yourself to view your situation |
| health suffered because of stress and pressure | | | | as having unlimited possibilities. Now is your chance |
| you felt to achieve goals set by someone else. | | | | to create the life you really want, a life that is |
| Your relationships suffered because you focused | | | | truly meaningful. Now you can begin living your |
| too much on your job/career and your finances. | | | | second life. |
| As a result, you couldn't find time or energy to do | | | | Playing the game of life to win. |
| something worthwhile with your life, to achieve a | | | | Winning at the game of life requires achieving |
| meaningful goal or make the world a better place. | | | | balance in all five key areas of life. This isn't |
| You may even feel that God has deserted you. | | | | always easy, particularly when we have been |
| You are not alone. | | | | indoctrinated to believe that the dictates of |
| If you're struggling in the job market or financially, | | | | society's rules are more important than honoring |
| you are part of the majority of Americans. | | | | our life purpose by mastering our God-given gifts. |
| These are the facts: | | | | The ideal is that each of us is a sum total of all |
| * There are 140 million people in the labor force | | | | that God has given: |
| of the United States. | | | | - Our job/career provides us the financial |
| * The official unemployment rate is around | | | | resources to support ourselves and loved ones |
| 10%--that's 14 million people out of work. | | | | materially while giving back to society. |
| * But the real number is double that, more like 28 | | | | - Our physical health is the vehicle that houses the |
| million people when you count those not officially | | | | soul and carries us through our every day |
| included: part-time workers, temporary workers, | | | | endeavors. |
| those no longer qualified for unemployment | | | | - Our relationships (with ourselves and others) are |
| benefits; and the dropouts (those who gave up | | | | a reflection of our values, principles and beliefs. |
| on finding a job or returned to school). | | | | - Our spirituality provides the consciousness of |
| * Studies show that 55% of working people (77 | | | | living in Oneness with all other living things by being |
| million) fear losing their jobs and feel out of | | | | of service to others in our every day lives while |
| control. They are afraid that without a paycheck, | | | | fulfilling our own life purpose using our God-given |
| they'll also lose their cars, their homes, and won't | | | | gifts. While mastering these five key areas of life |
| be able to feed their families. | | | | you can begin living A Second Life , being the |
| * So, more than 70% of Americans are | | | | best that you can be. |
| experiencing difficulties and fear in the job market. | | | | A proven system for making your job search |
| Why are you struggling to hold onto or regain | | | | more successful is detailed in the life manual, A |
| something you never really wanted in the first | | | | Second Life, God is giving you a second chance. It |
| place? | | | | contains an extensive chapter with detailed |
| Recent studies conclude that at least 50% of | | | | guidance on how to find a job, interview tips, |
| working people in the United States are actually | | | | winning the job and creating a job insurance policy |
| unhappy in their jobs. That's half. No one is polling | | | | once you've got the job. It also tells you how to |
| the recently unemployed, the persistently | | | | fully develop all five key areas of life, so that if |
| unemployed, or those desperately trying to get | | | | you are struggling in the job market, you won't |
| back into the types of jobs they were working in | | | | feel like the world is going to end. Go to the Web |
| before. | | | | site: to download a free book excerpt and articles |
| I contend that people are trying to secure new | | | | containing more job/career tips. |