Challenges are popping up let and right, depending on the moment it might feel easier or more difficult to strive what you aim for. The pandemic was difficult on everyone from getting sick, having family of friends with issues or potentially job loss.
While more difficulties could arise it’s important to prioritise what is important for you. While looking for a new job it’s still possible to pay attention to eating healthy or spending time with your children. It may put some extra pressure on yourself attempting to push forward while being pushed in a difficult corner. You will not see the benefits of staying true to your priorities immediately. However in a couple of months when everything goes like you planned you will remember how you pushed through the difficult time remaining focussed on what is important. Not the easy times but the more difficult ones show the importance of your character and your ability to stay focussed. Anyone able to fight through obstacles will see the benefits later on.
Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal. – Nathan Chen
Everyone goes through difficult times in life. These difficult times don’t define us, but how we deal with them does. For example the company you are working for has to let a lot of people go not based on the performance of the employees but rather the financial situation from the company, possibly even as result from the pandemic. Everyone getting fired, no matter the cause, is devastated because of the result. We work to either pay or rent or mortgage and to continue living our current standard. Being left without a job means we have to look for a new job to survive. Being immobilized for a couple of days is very normal, however this situation should hopefully only take a month or 2. Then the search of a new job starts. You may not be fully motivated yet, but the search can start to see if something good crosses your path.
How you react in the eye of problems will show your family and friends how motivated you are to perform well. Obviously depending on how much experience you have on the work field and, less importantly, what degree you have will greatly influence the length it could take to find a new job. Don’t be concerned if it takes a while to find a new job, it’s not the length it takes that is important but rather how much effort you put into the search and how you are spending the time you are searching for the new job. Are you laying on the couch 8 hours a day or are you going to job interview and when there aren’t interviews you go for walks, work out, learn a different language, learn new skills and so on. Without a full time occupation you have the possibility of improving in areas of your life that have been lacking.