How difficult is it to navigate in the dark? How difficult is it to get somewhere when your GPS isn’t working? How hard is it to make decisions without quality information?
It’s the ‘not knowing’ that makes life interesting. It’s a challenge to move forward when you aren’t sure where you are going. It’s even harder when you don’t know how to get there. However, rather than get overwhelmed by the ‘not knowing’, why not reverse it and think of it as something exciting and make it an opportunity that teaches us more about ourselves?
As you approach the final stage of college and have to begin the next phase of life, the thought process is and should be different than ever before. Now you need to find a job. For those of you that have that in place – LUCKY YOU! And for those of you that don’t – let’s get to work. This is the ‘not knowing’ and it can be frightening. None of us likes to walk around in the dark – bumping into stuff and falling down. That’s a drag. Find value in the ‘not knowing’ – it’s there for the taking. You just have to look for it.
Difficult should inspire ambition. Make it a journey that has night-vision and create goals on how to overcome the ‘not knowing’. The accomplishments that we achieve under adverse conditions are far more rewarding. When we do it in the ‘not knowing’, it will energize you and it will make you stronger.
But, make no mistake – its work and it is a challenge. It requires effort and it requires patience. One school ends and another begins. The school of ‘not knowing’ is open for business and your job is to walk in and get to work. Open those doors and embrace what’s on the other side, because each door leads to yet, another open door. Eventually, you open enough and someone invites you in and tells you to have a seat.
How you get from door to door depends upon you. What is the plan? Do you know what to do? Do you know how to do it? Do you have resources available and do you know how to leverage them to work towards the targets and objectives you have placed upon yourself. There has to be a plan supported by desire and determination, which follows the lead of intention.
Job Search Therapy provides the fundamentals to help you navigate this path and help you build a job search plan that will help you land safely into the ‘not knowing’.