Get Positively Positive for Positive Results in Your Job Search

What do all winners have in common? Answer: a positive attitude. It will separate you from the many who give up, settle for less or stay in unattractive situations.

Here's six guidelines to convert that negative energy into positive energy and get the fire of your job search rekindled.

1. Develop Positive Beliefs

Now is a good time to remind yourself of all the good things you have done. Write down positive things you've done and can do. Make it as long and complete as possible. You'll find it really reassuring. It will provide reinforcement for the positive attitude you must maintain. All you need is short sentences. Keep it simple.

2. Get Rid of Negative Beliefs

Having now built a set of positive beliefs about yourself, your second step is to get rid of beliefs that might inhibit your will to succeed. Get rid of the whole "The world is just grim and nothing is good" attitude. If you believe there is opportunity, then you will start seeing opportunity.

3. Set Your Expectations High

Our expectations affect what happens to us. Whether it's a leading scientist, educator, salesperson, movie personality or industry leader, you'll find that each of them had very positive expectations of themselves and their future. Picture yourself setting and achieving high goals. Positive visualizations can become a continuous process of reinforcement that will give you a new-found power and self-confidence.

4. Put Positive Expectations to Work

For instance, if someone tells you that an interview can take only 15 minutes, recognize it's a screening interview and build expectations that it will allow you to showcase your potential. Your expectations affect your actions and they affect your results. In that way, your will to succeed can and does make things happen.

5. Project a Positive Attitude

Talk to people about your positive expectations. When you do this, it reaffirms your commitment. Put yourself on the line. Let these ideas flow into your attitude, and begin to reach out and help others. Why? Once again, experts tell us this is a give-and-get world. Eventually, it reaches the point where it becomes obvious to anyone who meets you, that you project a lot of confidence about yourself. A spring in your step, a firm handshake, a confident look in your eye and comments that reveal a positive outlook can all help you project good feelings to the outside world.

6. Make Things Happen by Getting into Action

If you look at achievers in any field, you will find they are very active people. It's a simple fact that taking action is in itself like taking an energy tonic. Choose any kind of example you like. the head of a college breathing new life into an institution, a company president turning around a money-losing operation, a football coach turning a losing team into winners or a test pilot setting a new speed record. They are so intent on their actions, there is no room for doubt and indecision. You can do the same thing.