When Your Heart and Your Mind Is In It ☀️

Okay, so I’ve been a bit of a distracted Steemian lately. I’ve been around but not nearly as much as I am normally. At the end of the day I only like to post while the price is up hahaha. No seriously, all jokes aside, I’ve just been distracted the past month. I can get quite obsessed when I put my mind to something and at the beginning of August I made the decision that by the end of the month I would have a new job.

Some people have long term plans and a very detailed way of how they go about achieving them. I get bored easily so long term doesn’t really work for me. I do have a vague idea of where I want to end up. It’s just that I’ve learnt to adapt to my short attention span haha. That and the fact that things can change so quickly, especially when you have kids, and I’ve just found it easier for me to have a sort of idea and smaller and more focused goals on the road to getting there.

We’re all different after all and we should take our own personality, short comings and circumstances into account to decide on which approach would better suit us. I find that by doing it this way I don’t burn myself out. Not only do I get bored easily, but I also become quite obsessive about whatever it is that I’m trying to achieve in that short time frame. Can you imagine if I had to focus on more than one major thing at a time? I’d drive myself batty. If I don’t set a very specific deadline, I’ll procrastinate and never get it done at all. If it’s too far in the future, I’ll just get bored as I’m not getting any feedback from my actions.

I’ve come to learn this about myself. This approach works for me. One goal at a time and a realistic and short time frame in which to achieve it. I find that when I do it like this I’m constantly working on it. If we take August as an example in my mind it would have worked something like this: I need to get a new job. What do I need to do to get a new Job? Do these things every single spare moment until it happens.

So that is exactly what I did. I sorted out my online profiles, updated my CV and checked every single job posting website I could several times a day. In the end I probably ended up applying for well over 20 positions. I arranged a meeting with a recruitment agent and no matter how despondent I felt I did not stop trying.

Not only was I doing these actions every single day but I was also making sure that I kept telling myself that by the end of the month I would have a job every single time I felt insecure. I’ve always believed that our minds can be incredible powerful. It’s almost like if we believe in something hard enough and we constantly put in the effort that it will be. Please just be realistic though, it must still be something that is attainable with your skillset and means.

Towards the end of the month I had still not received any feedback from any of my applications. I was starting to feel despondent and like it wasn’t going to happen. I didn’t allow those feelings to stop me from trying though. I kept trying and kept telling myself that it would happen. Then I got a call and they wanted to see me for an interview. I went for the interview on the Wednesday, met the MD on the Thursday and on Friday the 31st of August, he called me to tell me that I had the job!

As I sit here writing about it I am still so incredibly thankful. I’ve used this approach many times and it’s always worked for me. The only trick is that it must be what I truly want. If my hearts not in it my mind won’t be either.

Thank you for reading and remember to keep smiling 😊
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