New Sense for the Job Hunt

Making Sense in the Job Hunt

One of the great challenges in a job hunt is maintaining perspective and refueling your spirit every so often to keep your energy up.  For this, I recommend using the real sense approach.

Anyone who has been unemployed or underemployed for a length of time appreciates how it can drain your spirit.  Life becomes a bit more lonesome as you face the repeated "no" from employers and the even worse nagging of the bills as they sit on your kitchen table.  So how do you keep your spirits up?  The fun part is you already know how, I am just directing you to how to find it.

Get out a piece of paper and write on it each of your five senses:

Seeing; Smelling; Touching; Hearing and Tasting

On a scale of 1 to 10, ten being your favorite write down your favorite sight, smell, etc.  If you could have your favorite sound playing, what would it be?  The sound or rain?  Soft jazz music?  You get the idea.  Write down YOUR favorites, ones that make you feel most centered and most at peace.  

Take a few more moments and write down your favorites for each of your five senses.

Further down the scale

Now think of something that is further down the scale, ones that are good, but not quite a ten.  Maybe a six or seven on the scale of what your favorites are for each sense.  You may say that spaghetti and meatballs is a ten while hot dogs and baked beans is a seven.

Take a few moments and write down each of these for each of the five senses.

Now you have your "roadmap".  When the trail of your job hunt gets rough and doubts creep into your thoughts, take a moment to recharge your spirits.  Settle back into as peaceful a place as you can in your circumstances and try to enjoy one or more of your tens.  If you cannot afford your tens, enjoy a couple of sevens.  

Current technology can give you different sounds or sights in your computer for example.  With some concentration on your part, you will see that even in the midst of other things facing you, you can still enjoy something that is special to you.

Doesn't that just make sense?