Laura George - Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting: Attract the Work You Want

Copyright 2007

by Laura George

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this work in any form whatsoever, without permission in writing from the publisher, except for brief passages in connection with a review.

Cover design by Bookwrights Design

Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.

1125 Stoney Ridge Road

Charlottesville, VA 22902

434-296-2772

fax: 434-296-5096

e-mail:

www.hrpub.com

If you are unable to order this book from your local bookseller, you may order directly from the publisher.

Call 1-800-766-8009, toll-free.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

George. Laura. 1955

Excuse me, your job is waiting : attract the work you want / Laura George.

p. cm.

Summary: Applies the Law of Attraction' to the life experiences of losing or getting a job. Helps you identify the qualities you want in a job and shows you how to stay focused and upbeat to draw that perfect job to you. George offers information on rsums, cover letters, internet job boards, interview strategies, and more--Provided by publisher.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-57174-529-3 (alk. paper)

1. Job hunting--United States. I. Title.

HF5382.75.U6G46 2007

650.14--dc22

2006038248

ISBN 978-1-57174-529-3

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2

Printed on acid-free paper in Canada

www.redwheelweiser.com

www.redwheelweiser.com/newsletter

To Ted, Helen, Ken, and Magdalen

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

Albert Einstein

What we attract as a job, and how we do the work, is simply a metaphor for life. Inspired by Lynn Grabhorn's bestseller Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting, Excuse Me, Your Job Is 'Waiting is chock-full of tips, strategies, exercises, and great advice on how to develop a bright outlook, empowering beliefs, and positive energy so that you can attract the work of your dreams. Work that is fulfilling, meaningful, provides opportunity, meets your financial goals, and, best of all, makes you feel great.

Our work deeply affects how we feel about ourselves, and ultimately our personal and financial freedom. Think about it. Do you feel stuck, frustrated, undervalued, resentful, or dragged down when you think about your job? If any of these words ring true, your beliefs about work are affecting more of your life than you realize.

Choosing empowering beliefs creates a better life, spawns success, and opens us to a universe of enormous possibility. But changing limiting beliefs is, for many of us, no more than a lofty ideal. How easy is it to have a feel-good outlook, staying calm, focused, and centered when your job is unfulfilling, a daily grind tethered to a much-needed paycheckor, worse yet, you have no job at all? That is where the rubber meets the road. Meeting yourself where you are, taking an inventory of the way you approach work, and following the steps presented in this simple and sometimes sassy book will radically change the way you experience work and have a big impact on every other area of your life.

What we believe about ourselves and the world around us creates the filter through which we experience life. We don't see things as they are, we see things as we believe they are. The decisions we make and the actions we take, altered by the program of what we believe, draw to us people and situations that match the life-vibration we put out. This is certainly true with how we deal with work.

Author Laura George goes right to the heart of the matter, and each step she presents has the potential to make a big change in the way you approach the working world. For example: If we take action based on what we don't want to happensuch as keeping a job we dislike because we don't want to miss a car paymentthat puts out a needy This is the way it is, I don't have the power to change it energy. Identifying what you really want, connecting with how good that feels, and investing your time, energy, and faith there will bring you the life (and job) you dream of.

Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting weighs in heavily on the intelligence of feelings. If you close your eyes for just a moment, you'll notice that you are feeling something all the time. Every moment, every thought pattern you have, every story you tell about how things are has emotion attached to it. Those emotions are full of good information. They answer important questions immediately: Is this good for me? Is this propelling me forward or holding me back? Is this fear or is this love?

As Laura points out, choosing to see the job hunt as a temporary process filled with possibility rather than a perpetual problem feels a lot better. Choosing strategies and a point of view that feels good can make a huge difference in the way you look for work and the work situations you attract.

Another powerful idea in Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting is the concept of personal responsibility. I'm not talking about blame or taking your lumps for making a mistake. That's a fear-based perspective. Taking complete responsibility is an Act of Power.

If you find yourself in a chronic situation full of negatives, with an outlook that isn't getting you where you want to go, there is good news. The good news is that whatever you believe is a point of view you agreed to. You have (and have always had) all the power you need to change it. Once you realize that, it opens a world of immense possibility. What we put out is often what we get back. Taking full responsibility and deliberately choosing and practicing what feels good will fuel your desire, creating an amazing shift in every part of life including your work.

How can you bring all these lofty ideas about attraction, belief, and feelings to your everyday life and something so pivotal as work?

Start with Excuse Me, Your Job Is Waiting. Follow all the tips, exercises, and practices. You will begin to notice right away that you do have the power to change your beliefs, your thought patterns, and the energy you radiate out to the world. And that's only the beginning....

With Many Blessings,

Ray Dodd

Author, BeliefWorks and The Power of Belief

Boulder, Colorado

December 2006

Master your energy, stir in a large dose of enthusiasm, entrench yourself in the process, and you will find your job search becomes empowered. You only need to employ both energy and economics to expand your opportunities.

In chapter 8, I will begin to address what I call economic tools because they deal with the business aspects of job searching: skill-sets, rsums, connections, etc. I will even touch on a few traditional economic concepts, such as demand for labor and maximizing utility. But, first and foremost, we are going to have a little fun with the energy side of job searching. The energy side involves thoughts, beliefs, and, most importantly, feelings. How you feel about yourself, the economy, money, your occupation, and prospective employers has an immense impact on the outcome of your job search. Your energy has the potential to turn your job search into a smorgasbord of opportunities.

This powerful energy is your emotional energy, not your stamina. Stamina is great, and very necessary, but it isn't the stuff that will bring your world into balance. Stamina is the stuff that keeps a puppy chasing its tailnecessary for physical movement, but not all that productive if applied without inspiration. You can have plenty of stamina and still be digging your grave with your low emotional energy. On the flip side, you can be very physically tired and have fantastic emotional energy. Great emotional energy can be compared with a runner's high: emotionally high as a kite while physically wiped out.