So, Erin, what should we focus on to not give up five months and losing steam there's usually two
big things that cause us to become unhappy and to get frustrated one is we have expectations of
the way things are supposed to be and they're not whatever it is i should have been invited
to the party i would have invited him he didn't invite me that kind of stuff
or or we don't feel in control of the situation when we feel in control of
the situation and let's not even get into the fact that control is an illusion to begin with
but when you feel in control and you feel that you can influence the outcome
you tend to be happy even if you have yet to achieve the outcome we get very very frustrated
when we are not getting the results that we want but the highest level of frustration occurs when
we are focusing on the result and the outcome that isn't occurring specifically what do i mean
well i'm sending the application in but nobody is getting back to me you don't control that
i sent them an email they didn't respond to me you don't control that
so which what most people are doing and aaron since i don't know you i don't know you know
if this is the case but i'm guessing it is is you get fixated on the result and the outcome
what you need to focus on to get your happiness level up and to make you feel more in control
and then in turn get your happiness level up is controlling what you can control so the
bootcamper's nicest all the time i only want you to focus in on what you can control i want
you to be obsessed with what you can control the people who are the most successful in life never
think about the finish line they think about and obsess about the starting line
right i'm going to show up on this day prepared i'm going to show up rested i'm going to show up
trained i'm going to show up to the meditation room where the candles sit and the pillow's in
the right spot and whatever at 4 30 in the morning i'm obsessed about the start if you focus on the
start and you focus on what you can control you'll be much happier and you will in turn get better
results so for you you're a job seeker what do you control i can identify my path so i have to
have direction i can control that that's desk work blueprinting my career my job my targets
the companies i want to pursue that's all me all desk work the i identify the people that i want
to contact that's all desk work i can control the message that i send them and actually writing it
and sending it total control i i'm not i've not talked about one thing just yet that is not 100
in your control own all this how many times should i send out messages every day until i get my job
you totally control that that's your outflow right so what most people get bummed out is well i sent
three messages but no one got back to me today so what right that so what go on to the next day
and so on so when you focus on the metrics that are in your control that will be a better
indication of the health of your search what do most people do i get these every day i get a dozen
messages every day that say the same thing andy thank you so much for all your good stuff that
you give me right i found you i watched a video and i downloaded this thing and do you know how
i get these right you download something you get a welcome email from me everybody share you know
tell me what your issue is i read those right i can't respond to all them but i actually read them
annie thank you so much i found you i'm 57 years old i live in brazil i i'm so bummed out because
i've applied to 800 jobs to and i'm not getting any responses it's applied to the applicant
tracking system i know what that issue is right we send them a message or something if we can
right because you're fixated on the outcome of which you have no control
now somebody gets back to you you got a job interview okay now what can you control the
starting line you can come prepped you can come with your outline in your head you know that
there's three types of questions in the formats they're going to ask you about two different
things your past or your future right you know all this now go in and let it roll let it rip
and do the best you can on that day so that's what i'm that's what i mean about
focusing on what you can control so if you want to talk about focusing and not give up
all i have to do to know how well somebody is job searching is if i sat down with you and i'd
say okay show me your target company list show me the people you're contacting show me what you're
sending them and how many are you sent how many have you sent that's it that's all i need to know
and i can almost to the dot tell you how many interviews you have by now by by the statistics so
if you do what i just said and and you're actually using high quality language then you every five to
ten let's call it seven every seven times you send something out you should have an interview that's
just basic stats math from the boot campers and what they tell me some of them go one for two some
of them go five for five in a week like i mean but most of them and it depends on level it depends
on consistency they will get those interviews the reason most of you are not having luck is
actually and i i put this out if you follow me on instagram you saw right lack of consistency kills
faster than a lack of talent if you follow my job search challenge and you send three messages out a
day each day and you only did that monday through friday that's 15 a week that's 30 in two weeks
30 in two weeks right that's four interviews that's what should happen now if it doesn't
happen then you go through your troubleshooting exercises right am i targeting the right companies
am i targeting my people am i targeting is my message quality does my resume align is it
whatever you go through the steps but i'm telling you focus on that all of you will be a heck of a
lot happier if you're actually job searching than if you're stuffing your resume in the applicant
tracking system or well i only sent two messages out last week why is nobody getting back to me
right three in three out every day and i just want you to send them you are better off
sending a seven out of ten meaning a like medium quality email a five out of ten and just send it
then not sending it like it should be your goal in life every single day if you're unemployed to send
at least three i would actually probably amp that up a little bit but you should be able to send 15
a week out no matter what if you're in the boot camp i already wrote the templates for you so you
have those it's insert your name here take that put your thing there and so on and make it your
own if you're not in the boot camp then you gotta you gotta either try to piece together some of
the the stuff for my free free stuff but i know that there's different variations of networking
so you're not always trying to boss hunt you might be trying to get a teammate inside a
company you might be going through somebody you know as a referral you might be following up with
somebody you met at an event you need to know what to say to those people you need to know
the the ingredients that need to go in it and you need to go know how to say it
so that's all in the program but there's a lot of that kind of stuff there is some free stuff too
that you can use aaron i focus on what i can control had a sale last week right ended
on friday i just mentioned what did i focus on we had a four day resume workshop that's
all i cared about showing up kicking butt showing you guys how to write that resume and then i
i put in there right we talked for a couple of minutes each day about my program that was it
and then i introduced it to you i sent you some good emails with some some some some things that
were inside the program the features the benefits and then i let it go whatever happened happened
and that was not in my control but my performance was and my engagement with you was and the time
i spent with you and all that good same thing for you same thing you guys are all in the most
uncomfortable marketing exercise of your life the more you can focus on what you can do and what you
can control the happier you'll be the better the results will be the better the quality of
your stuff i hope that helped i mean i know that that is a big deal for a lot of you so i probably
went on a little bit longer than i intended to but that's i think you all needed to hear that
you