I want you to know that if you are job searching I genuinely I genuinely feel this you can disagree
at the moment that you're you're being given a gift because if you're breathing every minute
is a gift and every experience is a gift and I realize you might not think that right now but I
promise you and I'm not afraid to make promises that you will at some point in the future look
back and know exactly why it had to happen that way that may be today it may be tomorrow it may
be next year or 5 years down the road but it will happen if you open your eyes and stretch
your ears and reflect and so I want to show I want to show you something and I I I I want to I want
to Breeze through this quickly but I I believe this has a lot of analogies to what you're going
through right now and these are my these are my booklets I'll explain what these are in a in a
second but each day each morning I write in in this thing it's it's a it's a journal and what
this thing does for me and I know people Journal many different ways but the first thing that I do
in the morning when I get up is on the front page of the journal it it's okay if you can't read this
there are 10 reminders for me I look at them it's the first thing that I do every basically every
day it's open it's on this page and I I when I come to this desk I look at this and I'm not going
to read all these to you but they're reminders for me of what to think how to how to make sure
that I'm experiencing what I'm going through at any moment in time and you know my first one is
be responsible for your energy just to give you an idea and these are these are reminders I'm being
prepared I'm learning and all those other good things these are reminders to me every single day
because we all move through life at a Breakneck Pace at the speed of our emotions and it's very
very difficult for us to actually experience what we're going through and any moment in time when
you when you are constantly reminding yourself of how to to behave and what to think and have
perspective and then what I also do in this in this book is is I I mean I write down everything
I'm I'm grateful for and sometimes it's repetitive it doesn't matter it gets me to stop and focus on
all the great things and one thing that went in this booklet today was that how awesome is it
that I get to teach these people and I get to help a whole bunch of people right that's that's pretty
awesome and so so so the first thing that I want you to to to realize as you're going through your
workday your search your whatever it is think about you're going through an experience gain
the benefits of that experience don't just go through it with the mindset of gez I'm a victim
why me why did that happen that's so unfair who knew the market was going to do this I thought I
joined a great company I get it there's a lot of circumstances most of which are totally out of
your control own the decision gain the benefits of the experience figure it out everything will
be fine now as you're going through and you're working the mechanics of your day of your search
of your whatever I have another booklet this is my training Journal I uh I do a lot of sporting
events I like to do triathlons and run and swim and bike and strength train and do other stuff
every day usually at least once but usually twice a day I go into this thing and I register what I
did and so the book it's just a lect ter 1917 there's nothing magical about it but but but
it's big enough for me to fit the 8 and 1/2 by5 cards that I have to write my swimming workouts
in and other things that get that get you know loaded into this book about what I accomplished
how I'm feeling and the reason that I I put the Swim cards in there and I tape them in or other
things that I do is because I when I'm tired or when I'm getting close to race day your race day
whatever that is is I know know I put the work in and it's registering when I'm doing it and when
I'm done although that swim was hard or that run was hard or whatever it was I know I put the work
in I know the work is being done three a day three a day three a day kind of thing right so so this
tells me I put the work in and I can do it and it gives me a chance to look back and see what I've
actually done there's another element to this for any you guys in my leadership program you probably
know what this is this is the last thing I want to tell you about about making things register
a lot of you are super worried right you're worried about getting a job you're worried
how you're going to perform in the interview you might even be worried about putting food on the
table or where the rent's going to come from this is my worry book and in this book anytime I have a
worry or I'm frustrated about something I go into this booklet it's just a field notes booklet and I
write down what I'm worried about when I'm worried about it and the reason I do that is because I
want it to register I want to capture that I had that thought and most of the time I think
you would agree show a hands is most of the time the things you're so worried about you don't even
experience them and even if you do they're never as bad as you thought one of my favorite quotes
of all time is Mark Twain I've been through some terrible things in my life some of which actually
happened and I looked I looked this morning I didn't have any worries but the last worry
I had now it's November what 8th I had a worry on October 25th that was the last time I actually was
worried about something I actually wasn't worried I was frustrated about something technically that
was going on in the time before that was October 18th about something that was ridiculous my point
is and and I there are not a lot of registrations in here but the point is if you can can can
capture what you're so worried about and and intercept your automated thinking and make it
register that that isn't so bad or in the first place making sure that it's registering properly
that you are given an opportunity to reach out to somebody you are given an opportunity to open up a
new connection you are getting an opportunity to interview with a company where you get to learn
what's the worst thing that can happen you meet somebody new you learn about a company and maybe
it doesn't work out right Pawn being moved off the chessboard kind of thing so when I go through my
day these booklets are they're with me uh I mean I don't I once I register this I register this I
mean I had my bike this morning I'm going to have a workout later today too but I it's but I don't
like this is always with me I just don't write in it a lot and what I'm doing is I'm conditioning
myself to make sure that I'm actually experiencing what I'm going through at any moment in time there
is absolutely not one other thing I can do other than teach you today and that's it and
that's that's all I'm going to focus on there's a whole lot of noise going on around me and I'm
not pay any attention to any of it and I want you to to just think about this and how it can be put
into your life take what you like leave the rest but think about how you go through your search
are you actually gaining the experience and the benefits of the experience are you actually truly
experiencing what's happening and gaining the most out of it and that's why I wanted to tell you this
and I wanted to tell it to you today because if you're with me here in the jab search challenge
we are now going into day three four and five and this is the time where you're going to start to
feel uncomfortable because what we've done so far in day one and day two is we've given you
the mechanics we've talked about some desk work we've talked about identifying companies but
now you got to get into hand toand combat and that makes people uncomfortable so I want you
to remember this I want you to remember this I don't care what you write on I don't care I
would recommend you write it out because it's going to emotionally register differently than
if you type it out and it's okay but I want you to keep your stats want you to make sure that you're
experiencing what you're going through so that you gain all the benefits so I hope you enjoyed that