Your Mindset Is Important To Success

Could you be the next Martha Stewart or Steven Jobs? According to Linette Gerlach over at bizzia Small Business, Mindset is Important to your Business. I agree, but I want to take it a step further. Your mindset will determine your success in every area of your life. For you as a job seeker, I believe it is paramount to you successfully navigating the turbulent waters of the hiring process.

If you are looking for a new job, and you don’t think you will find one, you will still be looking while you sit in that mindset. I write about this a lot in my column here, but I don’t think I can say enough. I talk to job seekers daily and more people are stuck in their stinking thinking than you might imagine. Most of the negative junk comes from unresolved life issues, offenses that have turned into unforgiveness. Anytime you spend more time blaming others for your current or past state of affairs, you are struggling with offense and unforgiveness and you won’t move very far in life. And it will be very difficult in this current employment climate to get a job.

Let me talk about success a moment. Let’s define success. Ha! It’s not my definition that matters. You have to define success for you. I can’t define it for you. Each of us must define it based on who we are. What we believe success looks like for us. Success for me is about impacting people’s lives. I want to create value that transcends my life. In other words, when I am gone, I want the things I have sown into the hearts of people within my sphere of influence to continue to resonate within them after I am gone.

That’s my definition. What’s yours? My primary focus is to assist job seekers. I want every single job seeker I coach to have a successful job search. I would like to see them get the jobs they want to get. So, a successful job search is not about just getting a job, but about getting the job you want to get. But again, your definition may not be that – maybe it is just getting a job. Just be clear. And understand that your mindset, your thoughts, your thinking, your fixed beliefs about you and others, will determine whether you actually successfully reach your goal. Think about it and have a great Saturday!

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