Overcoming your Career Challenges and Creating the Journey of Your Dreams

What you tell yourself affects the way you behave. So if you think negative thoughts, you will behave in a way that confirms them. For example, if you think career fairs are a waste of time, you will avoid them. If you think instead that you might make some useful contacts, you will go.

Now changing your negative thoughts to positive ones does require a conscious effort not to get caught up in negative automatic thoughts. Here are some tips to keep you focused on your positives:

1. Notice when you are having these negative automatic thoughts. Understand your triggers as it will help you to minimize them or prepare to replace them.
2. Get yourself to stop the negative thoughts. Either by something simple as saying “stop” or placing a rubber band on your wrist and snapping it when you have the negative thought.
3. Replace the negative thoughts with positive ones about the same topic.
4. Get support from friends or family that are good at being positive.
5. Praise yourself for your little and big successes and do not engage in negative thoughts or punishing yourself when things don’t go well-take something positive from the situation — a learning lesson perhaps — that will keep you going forward.

Start today on facing the career issues that you have been avoiding and begin on a path where nothing is impossible and you let positive thoughts, not fear, define your future.