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Lost Your Job?
9 Simple Steps to Help You Help Yourself
Losing your job, client, or gig can be painful, especially if you’re in financial fear. But fear not! Fear, its cousin, anger, and the grandpapa, rage, hold us back from loving everything about the short soul journey in the school of life.
Losing your job or any setback can be your springboard to courage, gratitude, and the willingness to learn what’s next. Given the faith in your many gifts, you can see your suffering as the gateway to salvation: loving who you are and what you do.
Tony Robbins once said, “The secret of living is giving.” Instead of feeling lost, offended, and hurt, focus on giving of yourself. That requires remembering your many gifts, beginning with the gift of life.
After all, there’s only one soul with your name on it. You have been given unique looks, thoughts, gifts, interests, and abilities. Your primary job is not to make money and buy more crap you don’t need or can’t afford. It’s to find your authentic self and love all aspects of life.
My Meeting with John
Yesterday, I met remotely with a man we’ll call John. John had read an article I wrote. He sent me a heartwarming message that read something like this, “Thanks for writing what you wrote. I recently lost my job, and I’m…
