How To Stay Positive During Job Uncertainty
This post answers questions for The Council from an anonymous reader.
Anonymous: Hello to The Council. I took a new job earlier this year after looking for a long time. I am now facing being laid off amidst the chaos of the Trump Administration. So is my husband. We are terrified. We both worked stable jobs for years. I, of course, am trying to remain calm and positive, and assume everything will work out, but I can’t figure out what went wrong or how this happened.
Council: So #1, we would say, the ideal is your answer: planning to stay calm. Having to know how this happened, why this happened, what’s going to happen – you do not need to know any of this. What you need to know is: Yes, it’s going to work out. I don’t have to know how. It will work out.
And then perhaps play with ideas in your imagination, what you want to do next. You can pick what you want to do next, and then do the inner work to create it.
And so we would say your first idea of staying calm is exactly what you need to do right now.
Anonymous: Should I have stayed at my old job, which was very stable?
Council: It wasn’t supposed to be that way. That wasn’t your [pre-planned] choice. And so again we would say, forget the past. It doesn’t matter. That’s done right now. How do you want to move forward? Thinking, should I, could I have, would it have been this way, would it have been that way, that does not matter. That energy is out there. It happened. Now take control of going forward.
Anonymous: I am exhausted to think I need to start looking again, and doubting everything.
Council: Make it fun. Look for fun jobs – things you can’t imagine you would get. Think of having to look for a job as not exhausting. It’s a new beginning. How exciting. How wonderful. What am I going to come up with? The way you perceive it is how it will come to you. So be excited about what you are about to create.
Anonymous: I’m doubting my ability to manifest and how to move forward.
Council: Of course. And that is only part of [what] humanity [experiences]. And so it’s good to doubt. Doubt – take a look at it and say, “Oh, there it is again. That’s going to scare the heck out of me. No, I’m not going there.” And then go back into the excitement [of]: What is the universe going to help send you? Because you know the universe is there for you. Believe it. Have faith in it. Send pictures out in your mind of what you want. It has to come.
And so we wish you love, and peace, and happiness on your journey. And just enjoy. Find things to enjoy, and the rest will take care of itself.
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