Looking Forward

I did write in my last posting that I didn't like the word Redundancy, I was in fact thinking of never using it again.

That would mean changing the title as well or adding to it to project it in a positive way. In effect to try an diffuse the negative overtone of the 'R' word, because as I believe it maximizes it's power, so I want to do that in a more positive way.

Essentially, I have decided that is what this blog is about anyway, being positive.

I am still unemployed and I have been asked on more than one occasion, " am I not worried about it?" And my response is "no!" Because worrying will not change anything, it won't make me get a job any sooner, it will probably just make me miserable and everybody else around me.

People do sympathise with you and they know that its not your fault but they don't want to listen to you moaning about how worried or miserable you are.

I know that I have said that "its good to talk" and it is, but people respond better to you if you at least try to be up beat and confident.

I might point out the word 'Try'.

Again it has negative overtones as it is a precursor to failure. A much better word to use in its place is, Will, as it is positive and lends itself to success.
A subtle difference , some may even think that I am just being pedantic. But there is no point in me writing about being positive and leaving subliminal negativity all around me.

Anyway:

You could look at it this way, you have two or three months of redundancy or longer and you spend it worrying. In that time you have several interviews perhaps, but all that worrying has taken it's toll.

Your confidence is at an all time low and you even doubt your own abilities now as well as keep blaming yourself. So you enter the arena of interviews with the proverbial black cloud hanging over you.

Is that going to help you?

The answer is no!

My approach is to stay confident, not worry and look to the future and stop listening to the doom and gloom merchants who keep reminding us of the credit crunch crisis the impending recession (as if we are not in one).

As I write this my fiancee is flicking through the TV channels and momentarily stopped on the start of the seven O'clock news as the ultra serious news reader announced that the job loss figures are up again and that we are in a serious..blah blah blah.

I don't want to seem uncaring or make light of the seriousness of the situation, remember I am one of those statistics and have been for several months but it's the negativity that I have a problem with. It compounds the situation.

Imagine for one second if the same news reader had come on and announced with a positive 'slant', " it was announced today that the jobless figures are up again but don't worry things are going to be OK, we are having a recession but its moving and because of that it will end so we all need to be ready for what that brings"
"Lets all look forward!"

"Bon temps roule", "let the good times roll".

That does not sound so ridiculous when you think about it.
When things are going well we think positively and things keep going well. But the slightest thing goes wrong and the head drops the shoulders hunch and brow starts to furrow.
Is that not how it all started? One bank goes shaky the rest start worrying and the next thing you know I am unemployed and writing a blog.

Imagine if you can, a national positivity day, the whole country just having positive thoughts, a collective positivity. Imagine putting that out into the Universe en-mass.
This isn't some airy fairy thought either.
In case you didn't know but this theory is backed up by Quantum Physics, Einstein believed this self same thing, it's true.

So come on lets give it a try, start simple but be positive believe in it and see what happens.
I do it every day along being grateful for all that I have and for what I have achieved in my life to date, which is rather a lot when I sit and think about it.

It all helps to keep me focused and above all else positive.

Anybody else in favour of a National Positivity Day?