She lost her job. He lost his. I too have lost jobs in the past due to economic downturns. How about you? It’s a sinking feeling. When you first get home, it’s far from business as usual. Then, you search and search online day after day on all the sites posting jobs around the world. Each day rips at your soul.<\/p>\n
You plan success, but you reach dead-ends. The wrong job haystack keeps growing, yet no needle. All that searching is anything but free.<\/p>\n
It taxes your emotions. It challenges your self esteem. When time passes on, you wonder if you will ever find your opportunity again. It gets personal. Your dreams and goals get sidetracked to a numbers game. Your family will ask over and over again “anything today”? You go to career events. Collect information, send your resume and score zero.<\/p>\n
In a tough economy, like after 9\/11 and today, the duration drags on beyond reasonable hope. That is when it hits you. You come across an article such as this one and realize, there are other choices. What choices you say? Certainly not a get rich quick scheme.<\/p>\n
It starts by discovering your authentic self. In order to really become whole you need to rediscover your separated segments. These pieces make up who you really are. Think back to when you were 6-years-old. As a kid you were whole. Then you began to conform.<\/p>\n
What the world of business is facing right now is the negative effects of years of dissecting people. The economy, Wall Street, offshoring, mergers, golden parachutes, burst bubbles, job losses, frozen credit, lights-out-manufacturing etc. etc. etc.<\/p>\n
The silver lining in all the negativity, is tremendous opportunity to create an economy that harnesses the best in all of us. To overcome the challenges of the current reality is to build products that are holistic from whole people for real needs. This is true innovation. And… innovation always outperforms in any economy.<\/p>\n
Part of you investigation is to separate yourself back to your 4 separate selves to see what needs healing and development. These are your 4 parts:<\/p>\n
The problem you are facing is that for so long you have let bosses, companies and others define who you are. Wage gains were the reward for meeting their standards. Now you are looking inside. You are going to create a higher standard.<\/p>\n
Your standard, that moves beyond fear. Because, fear prevents you from living authentically. When you connect to that part of you that is honest, courageous, sincere, and humble you will find a world waiting for your talents. You will begin to make connections that you were previously rejecting. Your circle of influence will expand and whole communities of people will embrace you.<\/p>\n
Some call it the law of attraction. This is really selecting to connect with people that energize you and your reciprocation. If that is a law or attraction then I guess you could call it that.<\/p>\n