Do You Believe What You Believe ?

A BELIEF IS A FEELING OF CERTAINTY WE HAVE ABOUT SOMETHING… THAT MAY NOT BE TRUE!

 When you work with clients/students and provide tools and strategies to help them achieve worthwhile goals – like landing a great new job – it is important to understand their core beliefs about their circumstances. Why? Because their belief system significant affects how quickly they achieve (or don’t achieve) success. Consider this:

•  I am too old to ever get another good job again.
• When I network for a new job, I feel like I am begging for a job.
• The job search process is painful; a long and difficult endeavor.
• My resume must be standardized and blend in with all others to have a chance of standing out.
• When I interview, I am being judged – and I hate being judged.

 I am sure you can come up with dozens, if not hundreds, of other beliefs that your clients/students have that limit their ability to secure the right employment. Empowerment coaching is the ability to inspire and challenge your clients/students to

 1) become consciously aware of their beliefs,

2) evaluate whether those beliefs empower or impede success, and

3) how to recondition (substitute) a new belief that will result in positive thinking and action – to attain worthy goals.

Two Tips to Empower New Beliefs

 1)   Do you know this to be true?

 When clients/students share with you their beliefs about pursuing and securing new jobs, and you know their beliefs are limiting or down-right destructive… just ask, “Do you know this to be true?”

•  I am too old to get another good job in this economy. Employers want younger talent.

 Do you know this to be true?

•  Well, all the articles say that all the good jobs are going to younger people.

 Do you know this to be true – that ALL good jobs are going to younger people - and not a single person your age landed a job yesterday anywhere in the US? 

•  Well, okay. Maybe not all – but most.

 Do you know even this to be true?  What if the job market is RED HOT and you are unaware of this, wouldn’t you be missing out on many great opportunities?

By asking the question, “Do you know this to be true?” you empower your clients/students to evaluate and re-evaluate information they may have just accepted as fact, when in fact, it’s false. This allows them to change a belief from a limiting one to an “anything is possible” belief.

2)   Provide evidence-

?If a client/student believes it is difficult to land a job and he/she is not aware - or even open to the fact - that it is a job seekers’ market and easy to land a good job with the right tools and strategies, you need to provide evidence of this. If you simply tell him it is a job seekers’ market and easy to get a job, you are NOT empowering him. You are enabling him. 

•  Your job is to empower a new belief – and you can do this by providing evidence and allowing your client/student to determine whether he is open to embracing a new belief. 
•  The process of job search is painful and overwhelming. I will never land another good job if I land one at all.
•  Please read this article on the state of the current job market. Take ten minutes and see for yourself the real state of the job market. I think you will be impressed with how many people are landing jobs – good jobs quickly.

When you provide solid evidence that breaks with your clients’/students’ conditioned and limiting beliefs, where they finally acknowledge that their beliefs are not serving them well, they will eagerly adopt new beliefs that will liberate them from their self-imposed limitation – and catapult them to the level of success their desire and deserve.

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Take 10 minutes and Google "current unemployment rate".

Read a few articles on the low unemployment rate and how easy it is for people to land good jobs in this economy and job market. Then, provide your clients/students with the links and the articles, so they can see for themselves the realities of the job market, with the hopes that they will reconsider their beliefs to empower their success.