#jobs #employers #employees #coronavirus #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve #NewNormal #leverage
Gail has a job that was vital to her company’s operation.
The job is low level and low paying, relative to the stress and responsibility it imposed on her.
Gail wins a big lottery jackpot. She tells her company that, instead of instinctively quitting on the spot, she would stay until her replacement is hired and properly trained. In the end, Gail wanted to be paid her regular salary for that time, and, at the end, be paid for the unused vacation time she had earned.
The company said no. Gail walked. Gail had leverage. The company resented that leverage. (Read: employer cuts off nose to spite face.)
In short, this dispute was not about money. It was about power.
Today’s labor market is in turmoil. The COVID-19 pandemic has upended most normal operations.
There are many available jobs, yet relatively high unemployment. Employers say the dichotomy is caused by “excessive government benefits” that “pay people to stay home.”
If it were only that simple. Certainly, the benefits the government provided to cushion the effects on working people whose situations were completely destroyed by the pandemic have helped those workers make tough decisions.
Employers are trying to force normalcy, and want to create some sense of – for lack of a better word — desperation to bring back the employees they had to furlough. That would give them leverage.
Employees have many more decisions to make. First, since schools are trying to reopen normally, one COVID outbreak could shut down a class, or a school, instantly. (Having everyone who is eligible to get vaccinated – by whatever means — would be a big help). Does a parent go back to work and leave a child at home to “go to school remotely” on his or her own? (Many day-care alternatives dried up during the pandemic.) Does that parent want to risk getting ill by going back to a job, among the maskless unvaccinated, at which safety measures are not necessarily assured? (A worker is no good to anyone when hospitalized, or worse.)
It’s complicated. It’s forcing employers to be more innovative about their work places and work rules. It’s forcing employees to make harder choices: is it WORTH going back to work?
Adding to the complications is job availability. If a worker spent a career at Position X, but a different Position Y offers better pay, more flexibility and more safety, he or she is likely to choose Position Y, presuming he or she is qualified for it.
Where does that leave the employer of Position X? He or she can either complain about employees “being paid to stay home,” or find a way to get those employees, or new ones, back. It may require creativity, thinking outside the box and/or thinking less about himself, or herself, and more about the future of his or her business.
For employees, there are potentially oodles of options, some of which also may require creativity and thinking outside the box. If you are someone like Gail, without the big lottery jackpot in hand, there are ways to create a potentially lucrative income that involve spending a few, part-time, off-job hours a week pursuing something you may have never thought you would do. No specific education, experience or background is required. These are non-government programs that can potentially give you leverage with your employer.
To check out one of the best such programs, message me.
Meanwhile, we all have to figure out what the “new normal” will be. We have to learn lessons from this episode so that we are better prepared for the next one.
And, there WILL be a next one.
As had been said before, if you – employer — pay them properly, ensure their safety, provide flexibility and understanding in difficult situations and mitigate fear of sudden furlough, they will come. They will work.
If you don’t, they won’t. And you can’t force them.
Peter
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INVIDIVUAL RIGHTS VS. DOING WHAT’S RIGHT
#IndividualRights #DoingRight #GetVaccinated #coronavirus #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve
Can one be for individual rights AND doing right?
In today’s world, it’s tough to see that, but let’s break it down.
The U.S. Declaration of Independence guarantees us the right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
But, when a public health crisis emerges, we have to think more about doing right.
Why? Because it’s no longer just about YOUR rights, because how we behave can affect many others – even those closest to us.
In a time like now, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have to weigh our individual rights. Yes, we have the individual right to get the virus and potentially become ill. But, if we get it, and we didn’t protect ourselves properly, we could infect others. How would you feel about individual rights if someone close to you, or even a stranger, got sick BECAUSE you exercised your individual rights not to get vaccinated?
Individual rights give us choices. One of those choices is doing right.
Individual rights can be defined differently, depending on whom you ask.
It’s my body, and I have the right to do, or not do, with it what I choose.
Does this mean you have the right to use your body to hurt someone else, i.e., with a punch or a kick?
If you don’t really have the right to use your body as a physical weapon, do you have the right to use your body to potentially spread disease – as a passive weapon?
There’s a whole different debate on how women decide how to use their bodies, and whether they have the right to do with it what they choose.
We certainly all respect individual rights. But communities are made up of many individuals. If individuals all believe they have different rights from others’, how do those individuals become part of the community?
If we all want healthy communities, what are we, as individuals, doing to help ensure that? If we don’t want others to hurt us, do we still believe we have the right to hurt others?
In workplaces, individual rights have to fit within the framework of the employer’s needs. In most jobs, employees often end up having to do tasks they don’t want to do. Do they have the right to say no? Certainly, but there will be consequences that the employee may not prefer.
Incidentally, if your boss is giving you a lot of tasks you’d prefer not to do, there are ways you can build a potential income that might one day allow you to finally say no.
There are many great programs that allow you to devote a few, part-time, off-job hours a week toward building such an income. No specific education, experience or background is required.
To learn about one of the best such programs, message me.
Meanwhile, it’s worth your time to give thought to your individual rights, what is right and how you should contribute to your community.
Your rights may indeed be absolute. But to achieve the correct balance in your life, you need to find the formula of individual rights, doing right and contributing to your community that works for you and all around you.
These choices should not seem hard. In fact, they should be very simple.
Peter
WHO IS WATCHING YOU?
#WhoIsWatchingYou #BeingWatched #SomeoneIsAlwaysWatchingYou
Someone is always watching you.
It’s been said that one’s character is judged by what he or she does when no one is watching.
But, someone is always watching.
They may not watch you every minute, every hour or every day. But they are watching.
And, it’s not necessarily for sinister purposes that they are watching, as tech companies and other browsers are reported to be doing.
They are watching to see what you do, how you carry yourself, how you interact with and treat others and what results you get.
They may be watching you because they want to be like you. They may not necessarily want to imitate you, but they may look to you for guidance for their own behavior.
Just as that is true, the opposite may also be true. They may be looking at you to determine how NOT to behave in given circumstances.
If you are a parent, your children are probably your most loyal watchers. They may not always listen to you, but they ALWAYS watch you.
If you are a student, teachers and other students are watching you. They not only want to see how you perform in school, they want to see how you behave outside of school.
As adults, we may not always think our behavior is watch-worthy. We may believe we lead boring lives that no one wants to watch.
Oh, but they do. Why? They don’t watch for the entertainment value of your life – although some lives can be quite entertaining. They are more likely watching to catch some life lessons that they may want, or not, to emulate.
If you are an employee, your boss is always watching you. After all, it is his or her responsibility that YOU do what you are supposed to do at work. The boss also may be looking for how the workplace culture is affecting you. Even if you do the work properly, do you fit in to what the company is trying to achieve?
If you are a teacher, your students most definitely are watching you. Even if they seem less eager to learn than you would like, they are still watching – and learning. As with parents, they may not listen to everything you tell them, but they are watching to see whether you carry out your message.
Friends also watch you – and here’s where a sinister part may come in. They watch to see how you evolve as a person and whether they can comfortably fit into your life. They may not want you to become “too successful,” lest you leave them behind. If you get excited about a new opportunity, some friends will try to convince you that it really isn’t for you. That’s known as jealousy.
As people watch, how much you care about what they think will determine how you conduct yourself. If you are looking to do something other than what you’re doing now to enhance your own prosperity, there are many programs available to help you do that.
To learn about one of the best such programs, message me.
Someone is always watching you. How much should you care about that? A good rule of thumb is if you are trying to do everything right, you shouldn’t care. If not, perhaps you should.
But, more importantly, don’t act – or not act – based on the impression you want to leave on some watchers. Act because what you are doing is right for you, and could be right for others whom you would prefer to watch you.
Peter
FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY
#freedom #responsibility #COVID19 #coronavirus #FlattenTheCurve #vaccinations
Personal freedom is your right.
But you have to use it responsibly.
You have the right to hurt yourself, but you have the responsibility not to hurt others.
To paraphrase the late Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, you have the right to swing your fist, but the responsibility not to bloody someone’s nose.
To again paraphrase Ben Franklin, we have the right to create a republic, but the responsibility to do what we must to keep it.
Personal freedoms are not just given. They are given with the caveat that we will use them responsibly.
Most of us, deep down, understand the concept. But, today, there are a few who apparently do not.
In terms of COVID-19 vaccinations, you have the right to refuse it, get ill, even die, though no one wishes that for anyone. You don’t have the right to get the virus and, however unintentionally, give it to someone else.
It all boils down to risk. Most everything we do in life involves risk. We make decisions on what to do, or not do, based on a risk (and reward) assessment.
Certainly, not all risks are worth taking. Some risks can be minimized. Some can be avoided. The key is to determine your risk tolerance based on good information, a strong feeling of self-preservation and a strong desire not to inflict unwanted hardship on others – even others you may not know.
Risk also abounds in the workplace. Most people, unless they are in knowingly risky professions, don’t see taking a job as a risk.
In fact, they see taking a job as a necessity, regardless of the hardship it brings. The risk comes in the form of missed opportunity, taking Job X instead of Job Y.
What if you took Job X, but Job Y is completely different. And you could do Job Y while keeping Job X?
There are programs out there that allow people to, while they are off from Job X, to devote a few part-time hours to Job Y. Perhaps, eventually, unless they really love Job X, Job Y may be all they need to thrive financially.
To learn about one of the best such programs, message me.
Personal freedom ALWAYS comes with responsibility.
Think of freedom like a paycheck. You have the right to collect it, but you have the responsibility to do what you must to earn it.
One craves the freedom, but also must embrace the responsibility. One has the freedom to marry, but one must have the responsibility of fidelity to that marriage.
One has the freedom to choose, but has the responsibility to choose wisely.
One has the freedom to be a daredevil, but has the responsibility to ensure daredevil antics hurt no innocent bystanders.
So, if you support personal freedom, you MUST support taking the responsibility it requires.
Freedom and requirement are not mutually exclusive terms. We all cherish the freedom the U.S. allows. We have the responsibility to ensure that freedom does not hurt others.
Peter
KNOW YOUR LIMITS, OR PUSH THROUGH OBSTACLES?
#2021Olympics #pressure #mentalhealth #decisions
Simone Biles decided to opt out many of the 2021 Olympics gymnastics events for her mental health.
Sunisa Lee almost quit gymnastics, but pressed on and eventually won a Gold Medal at the same Olympics.
CNN’s Alisyn Camerota posed the question: What is the teachable moment here?
Many of us were always told to press through obstacles. Play hurt. Don’t let setbacks stop you.
Now, with Biles and swimmer Michael Phelps, among others, there is new thinking. If your head is not in the right place, take a step back.
In other words, know your limits. It’s OK not to be OK. Time away can help you.
It was undoubtedly difficult for Biles, considered the greatest gymnast of all time, to pull out of what was said to be her last Olympics. After all, she’s the best at what she does, she can bring home many medals for the U.S. and the Olympics are what she works so hard for. Some ask, how can her mental state get in her way? Can’t she just suck it up and play through it?
As an elite athlete, both mind and body have to work together. In one of her events, Biles got a “twisty,” meaning her mind did not know where she was, what to do and how to land, in mid air.
News reports say that if she weren’t as good as she is, she could have landed wrong and injured herself, perhaps to the point of paralysis.
She’s gotten “twisties” before, but she didn’t want to risk it again, the reports say.
Meanwhile, U.S. teammate Lee, earlier in her career, was not in a good place. She thought of quitting the sport, news reports say.
Yet, she persevered. That paid off with a Gold Medal in the all-around exercises at the 2021 Olympics.
So, what do you tell your kids when they ask questions about these incidents? Often, as children, we are taught to overcome, or push through, obstacles. We are encouraged not to get discouraged.
Here’s what you may have been told: Others are depending on you.
Everyone reacts differently to that kind of pressure. Some can handle it regularly and for life. Others can handle it for a time, but not all the time. Still, others can’t handle it at all.
Elite athletes face that pressure regularly. Most have their own way of dealing with it. But, sometimes it can build up over many years to a point that it becomes too tough to handle. In that case, many elite athletes retire. Some should retire, but press on. Others press on to more success.
So, this begs a question. How do you handle obstacles? Do you simply avoid them at all cost? Or, do you accept the challenge they pose? Things will happen to you in your workplace. Many are not in your control. How do you handle them? Are you looking for something better?
There are many programs out there that allow you to spend a few, part-time, off-work hours a week to enhance your income, and your future. No specific education, experience or background is required. You just need an open mind, and willingness to do something you perhaps never thought you would do.
To learn about one of the best such programs, message me.
Lee’s and Biles’ situations are not mutually exclusive. You just have to know yourself, know what you want and know how to protect yourself. May you find the right place for you.
Peter
WORK SHIFTS: PART 2
#work #workplaces #jobs #coronavirus #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve
Brigid Schulte believes the workplace – at least office workplaces – should not go back to the way they were before the coronavirus pandemic.
Schulte, director of the Better Life Lab at New America, was interviewed by Henry Grabar in an article for Future Tense, published July 13, 2021.
Work, before the pandemic, really didn’t work for most people, she tells the reporter.
It encroached more and more on people’s lives. Some workers, including many so-called essential workers, were underpaid for the necessary work they did.
Others were asked to work more and more hours, taking more family and leisure time away from them, she said in the article.
With the advent of the pandemic, some workers spent more time at home, and started to realize what they were missing, the article points out.
Another issue: child care. With parents at home during the pandemic, they were worker, caregiver and teacher aide to their kids. Now, with the pandemic forcing many day-care and other services for children to close, that limits the options, particularly for women, the article points out.
What you now have is a care crisis, Schulte says in the article. That puts a heavy burden on women.
Then, there is the issue of career advancement. Schulte says that people who work in front of their bosses, or at least where their bosses can see them, can help advance their careers. They can at least give the appearance of being industrious, and, therefore, get noticed.
Those who work from home may produce good work, but it may make it harder to judge someone you don’t see in action very often, she said in the article.
The article talks about digital nomads, people traveling, looking for suitable wireless signals and doing their work while having a good time on the road.
“I think it’s too early to say that digital nomads are a red herring. I think it’s just really going to depend on the cultures that develop and what they allow, what they value, and ultimately what they end up rewarding. Because if you’re a digital nomad, but you keep missing promotions and you’re not getting pay bonuses and you’re not valued, well, I can imagine you’re going to get the message that even though the policy says you can do it, if it’s not working out in practice, you’re going to run right back to the office,” the article quotes Schulte.
So how do you fit in to these scenarios? Is your employer making you come back to the office, because, after all, he’s paying for that space? Or, is the employer allowing you the flexibility you want, without penalizing you, and, perhaps, even rewarding you?
If you are in the latter category, good for you. If not, you may want to rethink what you want to do with the rest of your life.
Fortunately, there are several programs that allow you not only to work from home OR outside the home, but also can perhaps give you a potential income that could dwarf what you are making dealing with all these obstacles.
And, you don’t have to quit your job. You can do these with only a few, part-time, off work hours a week to start. No specific education, experience or background is needed.
To learn about one of the best such programs, message me.
You’ll probably read and hear a lot more about workplace changes – the good, the bad and the ugly – over many years. Try to analyze them and work to make them compatible with your own situation. You can’t do anything about some things, but you probably can do some things that make everything work out for you.
Peter
WORK SHIFTS: PART 1
#work #workplaces #jobs #coronavirus #COVID19 #FlattenTheCurve
Work, and the workforce is changing. Thank COVID-19 for that .
Anna North, in an article for Vox.com published July 13, writes that the five-day workweek is dead. More on that later.
A LinkedIn article says the pandemic has introduced three trends that are redefining the modern workforce: 1) Remote and hybrid models are quickly becoming the “new normal.” 2) Workers’ sense of possibilities is expanding. What people think of as a “good Job” has shifted, with flexibility rising to prominence. 3) The geography of jobs is realigning in ways that may have multi-decade implications. Job seekers are going to smaller places to live, rather than larger cities.
Finally, an article by Llewellyn King, executive producer and host of “White House Chronicle,” on PBS, says it’s time for “old bonds to be loosed and for new energy to be released” into the workforce. The article, written for InsideSources.com, was also published July 16, 2021, in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
So, what’s happening and how is it affecting you? Are you still doing what you were doing before the pandemic hit? Did the pandemic make you rethink your life, or life’s work, and encourage you to try something different?
In the Vox article, the five-day workweek, which workers fought hard for during the Industrial Revolution, has been debated for decades. The early 1970s featured articles that said more leisure time was trending for workers, as jobs were scarcer than they are today.
One can debate whether one needs to go into work five days a week, as the other articles discuss, but it’s unlikely that most employers will allow their workers to spend any less time doing their jobs.
The LinkedIn article says what people thought of as a “good job” is changing. What do you see as a “good job?” Do you have one? Or, better yet, are you working just for money and nothing more?
King’s article takes the trend head on. He talks about how people found out during the pandemic that commuting was a drag. He also discussed how some people find life better without a boss, and are creating income through “gigs,” or starting their own businesses.
These trends are being labeled by some as just laziness, with too many prospective workers turning down jobs because of too much available government aid. They’re not seeing what’s really happening. People are beginning to re-evaluate what a job should be, how much of their time they should spend at it, and whether they should do it in a place dictated by someone else.
They are also re-evaluating whether a job that they had prior to COVID-19 is worth going back to, or is even available to go back to. There are certainly available jobs, but there seems to be more of a variety from which workers can choose. Someone may prefer to make widgets than wait tables, for example.
There is good news here, especially for those who are looking for something different, but the available alternatives they have seen just aren’t suiting their fancy. There are a number of programs out there that allow you to take, or keep, a job – if you are just working for money — and spend a few, part-time off-work hours building a potential future income that could dwarf anything you could find in the job market.
The best news: these programs can be done from home, or not, and you don’t need any specific education, experience or background to do them. Yes, there are no bosses either. To learn about one of the best such programs, message me.
The coronavirus has spurred workforce changes we will see for years, or decades, to come. Companies have to adapt. Workers have to adapt. The workers, though, may find more options than they ever thought. But, they have to be willing to look.
Peter
WOULD YOU HANG AT WORK LONGER IF THERE WERE BETTER OUTDOOR SPACE?
#outdoorspaces #workspaces #socializingatwork
What if your workplace had a great outdoor space?
What if it were a place you could sit, talk, eat, even drink?
Some office buildings in Atlanta are creating such spaces.
“With many Atlantans still working from home (because of the pandemic), building owners are expanding outdoor areas to both lure workers back to the office and keep them there for the long run,” says an article in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on the subject. It was published April 11, 2021.
“I think with the events of last year (pandemic), functioning outdoor spaces matter a lot,” the article quotes Kevin Green, president at CEO of the Midtown Alliance in Atlanta. “People need more places to gather and they need more elbow room,” the article quotes Green.
In fact, many office workers, especially younger ones, have come to expect the nice outdoor areas, the article quotes Matt Wilson, a senior associate at Cooper Carry, an architecture firm designing Midtown Union, a mixed-use project in Midtown Atlanta.
Let’s ponder this for a minute. You’ve spent a year working mostly from home to avoid spreading the coronavirus. You’ve gotten rather comfortable not commuting to an office. You’ve been available for your kids as they try to get educated from home. Now, your company is spending the money to lure you back into coming to the office to work.
Certainly, you may be eager to get out of the house and socialize with your buddies at work. Presuming everyone, or most everyone, has been vaccinated, it’s not a bad thought.
But, in past decades, work was a place you would be counting the hours and minutes to leave. In fact, for many, there was a work life, a home life and a social life. You looked for ways to spend more of your time at home or socializing, while minimizing time at work.
Now, your company may be trying not only to lure you back into the office, but also to keep you there longer.
Make no mistake: these office building owners/managers see a real threat to their livelihoods if working from home became a big trend.
But there may be something sinister in this idea. If you want to socialize with your buddies at the company’s outdoor patio, you could be being photographed by security cameras. Do you really want your boss to see what you do, and how you behave, when not on the clock?
Certainly, an outdoor patio is a better place to hold a meeting than a conference room. But how much privacy will you have in that outdoor area? Will you be free to be open with your ideas/criticisms if you were being watched by everyone around you?
Will your performance reviews feature something you said in what you thought was a private meeting?
What if your workplace is toxic, whether indoors or out?
If you don’t see yourself long term at your current employer, there are programs out there that will allow you, with a few, part-time hours a week to start, create a potential income that could dwarf what you are earning at your toxic workplace.
To learn about one of the best such programs, message me.
The pandemic has prompted a lot of employers to rethink how they work, where employees work, how many people and how much space they need.
These outdoor spaces may be nice, but they won’t necessarily change what you do, or how you do it. They could make some interactions more pleasant, but just how much time you want to spend at work may not necessarily be up to you.
Peter
TACOS, NEW OWNERS AND WIRELESS SERVICE
#cluelessowners #cluelessbosses #bosses #employees
In a TV ad, Ryan Reynolds, the new owner of Mint Mobile wireless service, introduces an original Mint customer.
The customer praises the service, and the $15 monthly bill. So, Reynolds retorts: “And under my ownership, it will get even better.”
“How?” the customer asks.
“No idea,” says Reynolds, who then makes a flip suggestion about introducing “Taco Wednesdays,” which he says no one has done before.
“Still $15 a month?” the customer asks. Yep, Reynolds replies.
There are many levels from which to analyze this interaction. First, a new owner may not yet know exactly what he will do to make things better for his company. As an employee, customer or even an investor, it may give you some comfort to know that the new guy wants to improve things.
Second, when – especially if you are an employee or customer – you hear a new owner not have a clue about what he’s going to do next, it may make you wonder why he bought the company in the first place.
Third, since tacos have nothing to do with wireless service, it makes you wonder whether he has a clue about what the company does – never mind what he’ll do to improve it. Did he buy a pig in a poke? (Obviously, the taco comment was made as a joke for the ad, but there have been some clueless new owners in the business world).
The lesson here is that if you buy something, particularly a company whose success, or failure, can affect many, you do so AFTER figuring out what you will do once you own it.
Some entities buy other entities simply to take money out of them. They cut costs with abandon, leaving many people jobless. They reorganize it with other entities under the ownership, meaning that if you are part of the overall entity, but not necessarily part of the newly purchased asset, your job could be affected as well.
Under this scenario, no thought is given to “improving” service to customers, or maintaining or enhancing the work environment for those on whom the product or service depends.
Sometimes, to their credit, instead of taking money out of a newly purchased asset, some new owners put money into it. Ultimately, they may hire even more people, while, at the same time, eliminate inefficiencies in the previous operation.
These business machinations illustrate just how (pick a word: tenuous, fragile, unstable) ANYONE’s employment situation is, or can suddenly become.
It doesn’t matter what you do, how good you are at it or your personal situation – in many cases. You are a cost, and that cost has to be justified in the eyes of any owner. Many talented, hard-working people have lost jobs, and even careers, through reorganization.
The good news here is that if you want some insurance against this happening to you in the workplace, there are many programs out there that allow those willing to spend a few, part-time, off-job hours to generate an income – one that could not only eventually dwarf what you are earning at your job, but also that no one will take away from you.
To learn about one of the best such programs, message me.
Meanwhile, be you a customer or employee of a new owner, beware. Just because someone has bought a company does not mean he or she has any idea what he or she will do with it.
That could leave you, and others you like and admire, in the lurch. What if all of you could sport a smile from that lurch?
Peter
ANTS: NOT JUST PESTS
#ANTS #AutomaticNegativeThoughts #Youarewhatyouthinkabout
If you Google the acronym ANTS, you may not see material about insects.
You may see something about Automatic Negative Thoughts.
To dig deeper into that, when you wake in the morning, do you automatically think about what bad things might happen today? Or, do you automatically think about all you have to do during the day, and dread it?
The opposite of that, of course, is to wake thinking about how GREAT the day is going to be, how many worthwhile things you will get done during the day and how you will celebrate those worthwhile accomplishments at the end of the day.
Earl Nightengale’s book, “The Strangest Secret,” says, to paraphrase, you are what you think about. To expand on that, you BECOME what you think about.
Certainly, you can think good thoughts, or thoughts of success, every day. And, not every day sees those successes you thought about.
The point of the ANTS message is to presume what you will do each day WILL be a success. And, if you don’t achieve what you were thinking, to use the failure as a learning experience. Ask yourself: “Was it something I said?” “Was it something I did?” Was it something I didn’t say, or didn’t do?”
Chances are, when you don’t succeed, it will be a combination of thoughts AND actions (or inactions).
ANTS, the thoughts, are like ants, the insects. They can overwhelm you. When they do, you have to get rid of them.
How? In the case of the thoughts, you have to teach yourself NOT to think that way. That starts with always looking first at what is good in your life. Focus on that to start. Then, as you compile tasks for accomplishment, think that you will do all you can to accomplish them successfully, no matter how small.
Envision success on the other end. Soon, those ANTS will become APTS – automatic positive thoughts.
Let’s say you are at a place in life that you seek to rise out of. Your job is not what you want to do the rest of your life. Or, your job has become – or will become – unstable. You wait for the day you walk into work and hear that you no longer have a job.
If you are indeed ambitious and see yourself as a success, and feel you need a different vehicle or route to get you there, know that there are many programs out there that can show you the way out and provide the mode of transportation.
You don’t need specific education, experience or background. You do need a willingness to look at something you may have never thought you would do. Plus, you need a willingness to be coached.
To learn about one of the best such programs, message me.
Meanwhile, stomp out the ANTS from your mind, by creating APTS. Wake up with the intention and presumption of success. Then, do what you need to do to make it happen.
ANTS can indeed be pests. It is up to you to exterminate them.
Peter