7 Great Affirmations for the Unemployed

With Practical Tips You Can Apply Today

By Paul & Tracey McManus, Authors of The 7 Great Prayers: For a Lifetime of Hope and Blessings

Lost jobs. Lost homes. Lost hope.

It's in the headlines, it's on the news, and it's in our day-to-day conversations with people we care about: family, friends, co-workers, neighbors and people within our spiritual circles. When you're out of work, where do you turn when it seems nobody can help you or those you love?

For Tracey and I, and the thousands of people who visit our website everyday, we turn to a power greater than ourselves and we use affirmative prayers.

But what are affirmative prayers? How do you use them? And do they work?

The 7 Great Affirmations for the Unemployed

The following is our suggestion of how to use our 7 Great Affirmations to overcome job loss. We use the term God to mean the higher power of your understanding. These seven affirmations are the ones we and thousands of others have used to overcome unemployment and the negative emotions surrounding it.

1. Change Your Focus

Give praise. Take your mind off your life's challenges and shift your focus toward good thoughts and attaining a new job.
Affirmation: I love you God and welcome you into my heart. Thank you for blessing me with a new job. Tip: For many of your affirmations, affirm as though you have already been blessed with what you are asking for.

2. Put Yourself in a State of Gratitude

Take a moment and reflect on all the good things in your life and give thanks. Change your thinking from lack to thanks.
Affirmation: Thank you God, you give me power, comfort and strength while I find a new job. Tip: Affirmations without taking action are just wishes. Take steps forward every day to find a new job and give thanks for everything during the day. There is nothing too small to give thanks for. For example, thank God for the beautiful day, a smile, a kind word, not to mention your health, family, etc.

3. Connect with Your Higher Power -- From Whom all Blessings Flow

Feel God's presence and know that God is within you right now, and that you are connected with God.
Affirmation: God, you are within me right now and you are helping me through my job search and helping me find the perfect job for me. Tip: When using affirmations, don't beg. Instead, talk as though you are talking with your best friend. Talk and affirm positively, and know that you are loved.

4. It's Okay to Ask to Be Blessed with a New Job

God wants the very best for you . . . "whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive".
Affirmation: I am being led on the right path for me today for finding a new job, leaving all the details to God…I am blessed. Tip: Some people believe for some reason they don't deserve blessings -- throw this idea out once and for all! You are a good person. You are loved. You deserve to be blessed, so ask to be blessed in prayer, believe you'll be blessed, and you will receive blessings!

5. Be on the Lookout for "Messengers" and Blessings

Be alert to messengers and events that have been sent your way to help you receive the blessings you desire, which includes helping you through the entire process of your re-employment.
Affirmation: God, because I see you everywhere, I easily recognize it when you are reaching out to bless me. I take continuous action and leave no stone unturned. Tip: Set a goal. Have a clear picture of the job you want. Put your re-employment goals in writing. There are studies that report that those who put their goals in writing achieve dramatically better results than those who don't. So write down your re-employment affirmations in a journal along with your re-employment goals, and then take ACTION!

6. Bless and Love Others

"Love your neighbor as you would love yourself". When you are out of a job it's easy to feel very alone and isolated in your negative situation. Again, it's crucial that you maintain a positive mental attitude, and an easy way to do this is to say short, loving affirmations, blessing others.
Affirmation: I love and bless my family and friends. I love and bless all those who are in need of love, comfort and strength. Tip: Decide to live in the now. Don't fret about the past, don't worry about the future. Don't go through your re-employment alone. Connect with family, friends, people you've worked with in the past, community services and your spiritual circle.

7. Use Your Talents

Whatever you put into the universe will come back to you ten-fold. You have special gifts. Reflect on these gifts and how they can help others. Be open to a completely different career; maybe a move to a new location. With every adversity there is the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
Affirmation: God, work through me now and help me do your good works. The more I help others, and do your good work, the more blessings I attract into my life. Tip: While looking for a new job, stay active. Volunteer. Help others. It's the right thing to do and your volunteer work may very well connect you to a person or event that will help you become re-employed.

Tracey and I want to help you with your re-employment. To download a free pocket-size prayer card designed to help you stay positive, take action and get a new job, please visit www.the7greatprayers.com/unemployed. And please consider committing to the 21-day Prayer Challenge found on our website.

© 2009 Paul & Tracey McManus, author of The 7 Great Prayers: For a Lifetime of Hope and Blessings

Author Bio
Paul and Tracey McManus authors of The 7 Great Prayers: For a Lifetime of Hope and Blessings, originally created The 7 Great Prayers in response to their own financial and personal challenges. They have made it their mission to teach others how to live abundant and blessed lives by tapping into the power of God and the power of the mind through The 7 Great Prayers. They live in Connecticut with their three children.

To learn more about The 7 Great Prayers: For a Lifetime of Hope and Blessings please visit www.the7greatprayers.com

New report helps companies use innovation to navigate the global recession

New report helps companies use innovation to navigate the global recession

Chuck Frey, founder of InnovationTools.com, and Renee Hopkins Callahan, director of publications at Innosight, have published a timely report for businesses to fight the recession.  Here is a synopsis of this report: "Slashing innovation and R&D programs during the downturn may leave companies at a competitive disadvantage and poorly positioned to capitalize upon opportunities as the economy recovers. That’s the key message of a new report from InnovationTools.com, the world's leading innovation website, and Innosight, a leading consulting firm. This new report, which incorporates advice from some of the world’s leading innovation experts, provides a valuable set of best practices and strategies that companies can use to help maintain their innovation initiatives during the current global economic downturn. As part of this study, Chuck Frey, founder of InnovationTools.com and Renee Hopkins Callahan, director of publications at Innosight, recently contacted a diverse collection of innovation experts and practitioners to learn more about the strategies they recommend for maintaining innovation during these challenging times. Respondents include some of the best and brightest innovation authors, bloggers, consultants, and practitioners. In addition, this report includes links to more than 60 examples of recent coverage of this topic in online media and the blogosphere. "When the economy enters a downturn, most companies instinctively shift to cost-cutting mode, and often decimate their innovation and R&D programs in the process," explains Chuck Frey, founder and editor of InnovationTools. "However, in today's fast-paced, global, interconnected world of business, the experts we talked to said this is a big mistake. Slashing innovation and R&D programs during a downturn leaves companies ill-equipped to capitalize upon opportunities as the economy recovers." "Difficult economic times pose a dual challenge to innovators who have to figure out not just how to keep innovating when budgets and staffs are cut, but also how to use innovation to save their companies. This report offers strategies culled from the current thinking of many innovators on how to do both those things," adds Callahan. This valuable report is available as a free download from the InnovationTools website at this web address:http://www.innovationtools.com/reports/recession.asp." I recommend reading this report today!

Ten Ways to Beat the Business Recession and Depression

The Institute of Chartered Accountants has published a great list for businesses to beat this recession and depression.

Their advice: Stay motivated. Be passionate. Network. Manage strong. Build relationships. Don't get down. Support. Reward. Cherish. Be positive.

Here are their top ten ideas on beating this recession and depression:

"Most businesses will be concerned about the impact of the recession, but you don't have to let it get you down. Find out how to stay motivated during the economic downturn"

Top Ten Tips to beat the business recession:

"1. Maintain relationships. Make sure you hold on to customers and suppliers by keeping in regular contact with them. Consider taking your best clients out for an end-of-year meal to thank them for their loyalty and to keep them on side.

2. Exercise strong management. It is crucial to make strong management decisions and follow them through. Update your business plan on a regular basis, and be prepared to adjust your strategies and targets. You will feel more confident if you are taking control of the situation.

3. Retain your passion. However much pressure you are under, don't lose sight of why you started the business in the first place. If you have a genuine passion for what you are doing, you will naturally have more energy to overcome difficulties."

Go to the Institute's column to find out the ten ways to beat the business recession and depression...

Ten Ways to Beat the Recession for Business

How does a business beat the recession? How does a business outcompete and outmarket the competition? How does a business survive and beat the recession?

Here's a great column by Shaun Smith on how a business can beat the recession...

Here are Shaun's Top Ten Tips for a business to beat this depression:

Shaun states the age-old customer service mantra: "It has been estimated that reducing your customer churn by just 2% has the same impact as reducing your costs by 10% and in tough trading conditions it is even more important."

Shaun asks us to "look out for these ten pitfalls that trip organizations up when the going gets tough.

1. Believing that delivering your brand does not require the active and continuing involvement of leadership. There is a tendency for organizations to hunker down and this leads to the leaders becoming internally focused. It is even more important for leaders to walk the talk to keep their people motivated and their customers coming back.

2. Delegating responsibility for the customer experience to marketing or HR or Operations. The executive team have to own the customer experience and you cannot afford competing agendas and politics to determine priorities.

3. Segmenting customers by demographics or account size rather than profitability. In tough trading conditions when customers are scarce you want your best customers spending more with you rather than your competitors so focus on real customers not some arcane marketing view of the world."

Go and read Shaun's column for all the ten tips and tricks to beat the recession.

I also recommend taking a look at the Innovation Bootcamp to jumpstart innovation and growth at your business!

Top Ten Ways to Beat the Recession (or Not)

Here's a fun column by Justin Case of Montana Pioneer Newspaper on how one can fight the recession. Of course, it's a spoof... and it is quite entertaining!

Read on to hear Case's thoughts on beating this recession...

"1): Become a Hutterite: What you can’t barter or sell, you can always drink.
2): Start an Investment Bank: Squander billions, take huge bonuses, get a bailout, then do it all over again. You’ll be on easy street.
3): Get into an old time-honored profession, the oldest: You’ll always have work, always be loved, and feel very little stress as you lay back and enjoy life."

Go to Justin's column to find these ways to beat the recession, or atleast have a jolly good laugh!

Ten Ways to Beat the Recession

Here's another column by B Nelson on how to beat the recession.

Shop at local Farmers Markets.

You can buy most anything, from vegetables to fruit, to home baked pies or sweaters. When you shop at farmers markets you put the money directly into the hands of another local individual. Hopefully they will spend it locally as well, and in turn it will keep the local economy strong.

Buy from Consignment stores.

There are many different kinds of consignment stores. Some consign clothing, others may sell local arts and crafts. Generally the owners and consignors are local thus keeping the profits close to home. The only disadvantage to this is that the products used to make any craft items may be bought elsewhere, so some of the money did not stay local.

Go to Nelson's column to find all the ten ways to beat the recession...

Top 10 Ways to Find, Save and Spend Money During Tight Times

Here's a great column by Donna Montaldo at About.com on Top Ten ways to beat the recession.

"Looking for ways to save money during tight times? Here is a list of ways to save on everything from food to entertainment and where to find quick cash for the small things you really want to buy." - Donna

#1:
Consignment Shopping Saves You Money
Buying at secondhand stores offers thrifty shoppers a wonderful way to extend their buying dollars. For the newly pregnant mother, maternity clothing is abundant. Brides on a budget can find beautiful wedding dresses at a 90 percent savings. Parents can also find a huge selection of slightly used baby clothing and furniture at a fraction of the retail costs. Furniture, clothing, luggage, books and small appliances are just a few of the things you can buy for less at consignment shops.

#2:
Learning How to Haggle
Whether one haggles for a great deal on a new pair of jeans, a dishwasher, the bid on having the house painted or the cost of a child's new braces, entering into price negotiation is smart and will often result in getting a lower price.

Go to About.com to read the Top 10 Ways to Find, Save and Spend Money During Tight Times.