Worrying About Your Job is Not an Option - Five Ways to Eliminate Worry From Your Life
When you are handed that pink slip, or worry that you will be next in line for the big company layoff, what is the first thing you think about? Do you get angry? Do you get scared? Do you worry how you will make your next mortgage or rent payment not to mention how you will pay your bills? Do yourself a favor and reframe your perceptions and eliminate the worry from your life.
If you cannot eliminate worry, then bring it down a notch or two.
Turn down the volume of the "worry voices" in your head and relax.
Relaxing will eventually lead you to re-energize yourself that will subsequently allow you to regain charge of your life.
The expression, "Not to worry" can become your mantra as you eliminate worry from your thought process and change the tape.
So, why is worrying not beneficial to your job hunt, career path, and your life purpose? Because it does not allow you to move forward and let the creative energy flow.
It makes you act "funny" during an interview and hiring managers will immediately pick-up on this.
Your friends may be avoiding you.
It can make your loved-ones not want to interact with you because of your high anxiety.
Most important, what is it doing to you? Your stomach is in knots, your are always fretting, and you constantly tell folks you are "stressed-out.
" These are not good ingredients while searching for a job, or trying to keep the one you have.
It's also not good during a time when you need the support of your friends and loved ones, not to mention the support that you can give yourself.
Once you can change your worrying-ways, you will immediately start feeling and seeing a difference in the way you feel about yourself and the way other folks respond to you.
There are five ways to conquer worry, or at least turn down the volume: 1) Reducing the anxiety caused by worrying: When you are worrying all you can do is focus on that "thing" making you anxious.
How often do you say, "I need to get a job before my money runs out?" ...
or...
"Once I get a job I will stop worrying?" You may be fretting, "What if I am next for the layoffs, and then what will I do?" Admit it; you are most likely guilty of one of these statements.
Remember, worrying is not going to make any of these things easier, so why are you doing it? You need to do something for yourself that will take the "edge off.
" Get a part-time or temp job while you are looking for another job, work on your resume and interviewing skills to prepare yourself if you think your department may be next for layoffs, talk with your HR department and find out what types of packages are being offered during a layoff, and most of all be proactive and relax.
Do whatever it takes to take the "edge off.
" I am recommending that you be gentle with yourself during this time and take good care of yourself with regular exercise, healthy eating, yoga, meditation, a long bath, or whatever it takes for your own relaxed being.
Another mantra can be, "Take the edge off.
" 2) Diminishing the negative frame of mind brought on by worry and turning it into a positive frame of mind: If you are constantly worrying you can never get past the negative state brought about by all of that anxiety (see number 1).
You need to shift your perspective.
Start thinking positive even if you don't feel positive.
If you can "act as if" you will eventually become that person who doesn't worry.
3) Eliminating worry so you can move forward in your journey: If you are always worried then you are stuck in a place where you cannot take action and move forward in your life.
For example, you may get the interview but this doesn't mean you have the job yet.
If you are so worried that you "won't" get the job, your anxiety will undoubtedly manifest during the interview and you will find yourself living a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You now say, "See, I knew I wouldn't get that job...
I never get the job..
..
what's wrong with me?" I will tell you that nothing is wrong with you..
..
but you need to stop worrying.
You are worrying yourself right out of a job.
Start creating positive affirmations for yourself: - I will get this job.
- I have the job.
- I love my new job.
Write these affirmations down three times in the morning and three times at night and watch what can happen.
4) Creating and imagining both come from a worriless mind: If you are anxious with a negative frame of mind and cannot move forward then you will be unable to imagine and create.
Once you let go of the worry and leave it at the door, the anxiety and the negativity diminishes, you start to move forward and suddenly all your creative energy will begin to flow.
Immediately, you will find that all of the creativity you couldn't muster up before will flow from you naturally and beautifully.
5) Eliminating worrying will allow you to get in touch with your feelings: Why do you worry? What is it that makes your worry if not worrying can feel so good? Worrying can keep you from feeling deeper feelings that you may not want to feel such as sadness, anger, and loss.
As a coping mechanism, worrying masks the deeper feelings that you may not necessarily want to deal with.
Once you become aware of your feelings you become worriless, or less worried, and you can move forward with your creative energy.
If you cannot eliminate worry, then bring it down a notch or two.
Turn down the volume of the "worry voices" in your head and relax.
Relaxing will eventually lead you to re-energize yourself that will subsequently allow you to regain charge of your life.
The expression, "Not to worry" can become your mantra as you eliminate worry from your thought process and change the tape.
So, why is worrying not beneficial to your job hunt, career path, and your life purpose? Because it does not allow you to move forward and let the creative energy flow.
It makes you act "funny" during an interview and hiring managers will immediately pick-up on this.
Your friends may be avoiding you.
It can make your loved-ones not want to interact with you because of your high anxiety.
Most important, what is it doing to you? Your stomach is in knots, your are always fretting, and you constantly tell folks you are "stressed-out.
" These are not good ingredients while searching for a job, or trying to keep the one you have.
It's also not good during a time when you need the support of your friends and loved ones, not to mention the support that you can give yourself.
Once you can change your worrying-ways, you will immediately start feeling and seeing a difference in the way you feel about yourself and the way other folks respond to you.
There are five ways to conquer worry, or at least turn down the volume: 1) Reducing the anxiety caused by worrying: When you are worrying all you can do is focus on that "thing" making you anxious.
How often do you say, "I need to get a job before my money runs out?" ...
or...
"Once I get a job I will stop worrying?" You may be fretting, "What if I am next for the layoffs, and then what will I do?" Admit it; you are most likely guilty of one of these statements.
Remember, worrying is not going to make any of these things easier, so why are you doing it? You need to do something for yourself that will take the "edge off.
" Get a part-time or temp job while you are looking for another job, work on your resume and interviewing skills to prepare yourself if you think your department may be next for layoffs, talk with your HR department and find out what types of packages are being offered during a layoff, and most of all be proactive and relax.
Do whatever it takes to take the "edge off.
" I am recommending that you be gentle with yourself during this time and take good care of yourself with regular exercise, healthy eating, yoga, meditation, a long bath, or whatever it takes for your own relaxed being.
Another mantra can be, "Take the edge off.
" 2) Diminishing the negative frame of mind brought on by worry and turning it into a positive frame of mind: If you are constantly worrying you can never get past the negative state brought about by all of that anxiety (see number 1).
You need to shift your perspective.
Start thinking positive even if you don't feel positive.
If you can "act as if" you will eventually become that person who doesn't worry.
3) Eliminating worry so you can move forward in your journey: If you are always worried then you are stuck in a place where you cannot take action and move forward in your life.
For example, you may get the interview but this doesn't mean you have the job yet.
If you are so worried that you "won't" get the job, your anxiety will undoubtedly manifest during the interview and you will find yourself living a self-fulfilling prophecy.
You now say, "See, I knew I wouldn't get that job...
I never get the job..
..
what's wrong with me?" I will tell you that nothing is wrong with you..
..
but you need to stop worrying.
You are worrying yourself right out of a job.
Start creating positive affirmations for yourself: - I will get this job.
- I have the job.
- I love my new job.
Write these affirmations down three times in the morning and three times at night and watch what can happen.
4) Creating and imagining both come from a worriless mind: If you are anxious with a negative frame of mind and cannot move forward then you will be unable to imagine and create.
Once you let go of the worry and leave it at the door, the anxiety and the negativity diminishes, you start to move forward and suddenly all your creative energy will begin to flow.
Immediately, you will find that all of the creativity you couldn't muster up before will flow from you naturally and beautifully.
5) Eliminating worrying will allow you to get in touch with your feelings: Why do you worry? What is it that makes your worry if not worrying can feel so good? Worrying can keep you from feeling deeper feelings that you may not want to feel such as sadness, anger, and loss.
As a coping mechanism, worrying masks the deeper feelings that you may not necessarily want to deal with.
Once you become aware of your feelings you become worriless, or less worried, and you can move forward with your creative energy.
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