Thinking does make life easier

It is always a difficult period – when you lose your job. You are distraught, angry and anxious about the times ahead.

I had just been speaking to my mother about my sister losing her job. Her services were longer required as they say.

A couple of weeks before, a friend had emailed me asking if I knew of any jobs going as the company he was working for were losing their contract and he might find himself out of a job.

A major issue isn’t it – losing your job, especially when you do not have any other source of income. Which brings me to ask why very few of us ever stop to think about how we make money and what would happen if that source of income dried up.

You would have thought a backup plan would be in place for the times when your boss calls you into his/her office to say “Sorry, we have to let you go”. The problem is not such plan exists because it would have involved ‘thinking’.

And thinking unfortunately is not something we do well. Spending a few minutes to think about the day, week, month or year ahead seems to be very difficult. It is probably the last thing that comes to mind.

How different would your life be if you stopped to think? A lot easier is the answer you are looking for. You see there is something special about thinking that does wonders to you.

Thinking clears the mind of clutter, helping you see things as they really are. It also makes solving everyday problems easier because with thinking comes creativity.

Creativity opens your eyes to what is possible. When you think of what is possible, you are saying and why not. Want to know if a ‘why not’ attitude gets you places, ask Sir Richard Branson

With creativity, you start to see the possibilities of making money available to you. You realise money does not come from just your job but from many other sources. With this in mind, you begin to relax, gradually reducing your dependence on a job.