This year I’d like to share some things that have helped me to gain insight into life. Here was the situation: I had graduated from college and I couldn’t find a job to save my life. I was unemployed for a year and a half and the only good thing was that I could continue to stay at home and live with my parents. I loved being at home and my parents were great but I still felt like a big loser because here I am 25 years old with a college degree and I have to live at home with my parents to survive. I should’ve reframed my thinking to gratitude and just been grateful that I had parents who were willing to support me and let me live rent free. That kind of thinking comes with age and experience and back then I had none. I would go out for any job I could find, temp services and whatever else was out there. I went on interview after interview and never got the job. I was pretty down and felt really as if I wasn’t good enough for anything. Then I was in Barnes and Noble one day and I spotted the book Attitude is Everything by Keith Harrell and I bought it with what little money I had from my Mom (I know, I know but give me a break) anyway the book changed how I saw everything. I get nothing (not paid to plug the book) except satisfaction for telling you about this book so you know I honestly loved it.

I read the book cover to cover really fast and that’s when I discovered it all started with me and my own attitude. I conveyed what I felt even though I was putting on the happy interview face but I never really felt good about myself at that point. I was conveying my loser mentality through my loser attitude. So I started to practice what the book told me about attitude. How I felt about myself was important and I was worthy to get a job. So I just started to tell myself things such as: Today is going to be a great day, things are turning around for me and I am blessed to be able to find jobs to try for.

Finally I found my dream job and I applied for it and got an interview. I was so nervous but I kept thinking in my mind to project a positive attitude and believe that this job is already mine. I kept saying that over and over, this job belongs to me they just have to give it to me. I went into that interview confident with a winning attitude and do you know what happened? I got the job and it was my dream job. It was the job that started me on my career that I have today. I don’t think that if I hadn’t read that book when I did and implemented some of the mindset changes that I would not have gotten that job. Who knows where I would be today if I hadn’t. This book holds a special place in my heart as changing my life for the better and I still have this book and reread it whenever I need an attitude adjustment. A positive outlook on yourself and life is crucial to getting to where you want to go. If I could do it so can you.

I hope you have a superfantastic day (if you read the book you will know why I chose that word).