Do any of these statements sound familiar?
<ul class="ee-ul">
<li>I’ll never get a job.</li>
<li>There are too many people out there looking.</li>
<li>There are no jobs.</li>
<li>I don’t know the right people.</li>
</ul>
The above statements are limiting beliefs. They are sabotaging many job searchers. Those statements are false but seem true to the owner. Statements like this prevent the owner from going forward.
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They are sabotaging the job search.
How did the owner come to these limiting beliefs? They came from where all limiting beliefs come from family, friends, media, teachers, lack of knowledge, and inaccurate information.
Limiting beliefs sabotage your efforts. If you think you can’t do something, you won’t try. Any mistake along the way and you point to the fact that you knew you could not do it. This prevents you from moving forward. You can also project your limiting beliefs on to other people. You think they see you in the same way you see yourself. When in actuality, they don’t - they think you are capable and a likable person.
Limiting beliefs hold you back from living the life you were meant to live. You recognize them so you can start changing your thoughts and start living your life.
Some of your limiting beliefs will be hard to find because they have been with you since you were young. Some of your negative beliefs are from your parents and grandparents. Your family obtained these from their country of origin, popular thoughts of their day, or their experiences. These thoughts passed from one generation to another may not be applicable to your life today. However, these outdated, extinct beliefs are holding you back.
I give you three ways to find your limiting beliefs. First, think about what you have heard your parents and grandparents have said about various issues. Are any of these thoughts still relevant today? Do you continue to think this way? Is it preventing you from doing something? Another variation of this is what your parents or grandparents said to you when you were experiencing difficulties. Were they supportive of your decisions? Did they discourage you from going forward? Did they cite their own inabilities?
Second, think of something you want to do, or something you always wanted to do. What does the thought say to you? Do you feel uncomfortable thinking about having done this? Does it feel that is out of your reach?
Third, think about the following statements, do you think like this? Who you are and what you can do are set in stone; they cannot be changed. It's what it is so there is no point in even thinking about other views. There's only one of doing things.
These statements are limiting beliefs. These statements are some of the many popular limiting beliefs. Below are examples of how they are stated:
<ul class="ee-ul">
<li>I can’t dance.</li>
<li>I can’t do marketing.</li>
<li>I have to do all the cooking, cleaning, and preparing for the holiday.</li>
<li>No one will hire me because I am too old.</li>
<li>I don’t deserve it.</li>
</ul>
Take some time and think about what you think about yourself and your situation. Don’t worry if takes some doing to get your thoughts out. Some of them are buried under harmless views. Take notice of your thoughts for several days. Think about why they are negative. Write down everything you can about what you are thinking and feeling about your beliefs
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Have you ever seen a world class athlete before their event?
If you have, you might have seen them with their eyes closed and head moving. What they’re doing is not some weird superstitious ritual before competing.
They are performing their competition in their head.
Every movement their body will make imagined along with any feeling they have to go along with the action. Included will be any sounds they will hear, smells in the venue, and the feel of their clothing on their skin.
This valuable exercise is as valuable to them as the time they spend practicing. They will do this several times during the day. It is a way of practicing without being out on the slopes. It can be done anywhere at any time. They can practice while waiting for something, taking a plane to a race, or just sitting at home.
What they are doing is called guided imagery. If you imagine you are doing something and you include all five senses, sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste, your subconscious can’t tell the difference between reality and imagination. Guided imagery misleads your autonomic system into believing that what you are doing is real. As a result of this trickery, you get the expected benefit.
If you could read this with your eyes closed, I would tell you to close your eyes and think of a restful place.
Imagine you are sitting in a chair on warm, silvery sand next to a beautiful, blue ocean while the smell of the salty air fills your nostrils. You can hear waves gently run to the beach and then pull back into the sea. You can feel warm tropical breezes blowing across you cooling your warm skin. The taste of coconut lingers sweetly on your tongue. You feel your tense muscles softening in the peaceful, restful atmosphere while your body melts into the lounge chair.
You didn’t go to a sunny, tropical beach, and sip pina coladas. But through guided imagery your mind thinks you did. If this had been an actual session, you would feel relaxed, warm, and tasting coconut.
Guided imagery has many uses including relaxation, stopping habits, performance enhancement and for improving health by relieving pain and rapid healing. Research shows guided imagery can decrease/manage stress, increase your confidence and self-esteem.
Job searchers use guided imagery to eliminate them of job loss trauma; forgive and forget any injustices they have experienced; and practice 
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Because of my desire to help the unemployed, I frequently find humorous things to share with my clients and unemployed friends. This year I took the poem, "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" and tweaked the words. Here is what I came up with.
I hope you enjoy it and my sincerest apologies to Clement Moore.
