Many of my clients are either seeking help after being laid off or are fearful of losing their jobs. No matter what your current circumstance, you can either live in fear or live in faith. When you live in fear, you are paralyzed and consumed by negativity that depletes your energy and sabotages your efficiency. You become unable to make healthy decisions or to see solutions and opportunities.

• Keep a positive attitude. Have you ever noticed how we want to be around happy, upbeat people? If there are two candidates with the same experience and background, wouldn’t the employer want to hire the person with a positive attitude rather than a negative one? If a company has to lay someone off, the employee with a positive, “can do” attitude, who is working on solutions rather than complaining about problems, will stand out from the others.
• Stop complaining and worrying and take action. It is easier to change lanes if you are moving, so start taking action, even if it is one action step a day. While it is easy to complain, it does nothing for you, especially if you are complaining about something you can’t control. It just makes you feel down and depressed. Negative energy creates negative results and positive energy creates positive results. It also does not help you to worry. Around 90% of what we worry about never happens!
• Keep your mind focused on solutions instead of problems. In every market there are opportunities, but you’ve got to stop focusing on how bad things are in order to see the solutions. The unemployment statistics may be close to 8%, but turn that thought around. That means 92% of the population is still employed! If you are in a positive mindset, you will be able to see the opportunity, find a solution, and take action.