To quote Norman Vincent Peale, Change your thoughts; you change your world. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The first step was to examine their negative language and replace it with a positive affirmation: a short, specific self-script in the present tense that states a situation or goal they wanted to achieve in their job search.<\/p>\n Jack\u2019s affirmation was: “I am experienced and qualified for the position.”<\/em><\/p>\n Susan and Claire, on the other hand wanted to affirm their age was not a problem, and so they chose respectively: “I am as young as I want to be and am a great candidate,”<\/em> and “I can get the job I want; age is not important.”<\/em><\/p>\n After writing their affirmations they posted them on 3 by 5 index cards in visible places around their home:<\/p>\n They repeated their affirmations frequently, both out-loud and silently, until each became a mantra of reality.<\/p>\n To their surprise they found their job search improved. They were more relaxed on interviews and were finding interviewers showing more interest in their abilities and experience as well as getting call backs for second and third interviews.<\/p>\n Each of them eventually landed good jobs that matched their skills and experience.<\/p>\n At the same time they practiced strategies for conducting a good job search:<\/p>\n But that\u2019s another article (coming soon).<\/p>\n The message here is about the first step<\/em>, adapting a positive attitude, to keep you motivated, focused and strong during an unexpected layoff, emotional upheaval and unwanted job change.<\/p>\n A persisting negative attitude will only zap your energy and pull you down.<\/p>\n You may still be skeptical about affirmations and not sure of their value. Studies on learning have shown that repeating the same message programs your subconscious to believe the message, and believing it will cause you to take the actions needed to make it happen. Think about it, don\u2019t we do this with negative thoughts?<\/p>\n It\u2019s easier to be negative than positive. Research has found that 75 percent of our daily thoughts are negative. Why not work on changing that statistic to 75 percent positive thoughts?<\/p>\n Creating and practicing your personal affirmation is a commitment to your future and toward a positive job search. Try it, and enjoy the results.<\/p>\n With a Master’s degree in Vocational Counseling, Boomer Ren\u00e9e Lee Rosenberg<\/a>, MA, is a specialist in vocational counseling, career management, job search, and retirement. Ren\u00e9e is also a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with over 25 years of experience helping individuals navigate career change, cope with stress, and achieve successful outcomes and a Certified Five O\u2019Clock Club coach for over 20 years. For more information about Ren\u00e9e, visit her websites RetirementTutor.com<\/a> and PositivityPro.com. You can also find her Profile on LinkedIn, send her an email at renee@retirementutor.com, or call her office at (212) 924-2117. Boomer Job Search Expert Renee Lee Rosenberg offers ways job seekers to use affirmations to reset their mental dialog to help them succeed at their job search using affirmations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":19134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"old-site-template.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jobs-for-seniors","category-job-search-advice"],"last_modified_at":"","edited_by":"Jessica Howington","acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19135,"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4382\/revisions\/19135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.job-hunt.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}How did they do it?<\/h3>\n
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Studies show that positive attitudes work.<\/h3>\n
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