Managing your job loss
When you get laid off, there are a number of things that jump out and demand to be given attention and to be managed. Things that usually may not even demand attention but get dealt with in the normal flow of things.
Although they are all reality, some are more concrete than others. Facts need to be managed but so do emotions. And don’t be surprised when the latter demands more energy than the first. Many of these dynamics that call for attention, become factors to be reckoned with, not because it is fact, but because it is emotion. Emotions that become fact = demanding and exhausting managing.
However, if you are on top of the situation by removing yourself from the emotion and seeing the opportunities, it becomes an exciting future turned present.
But it remains difficult to manage the emotions of people around you who do not have the ability to remain calm, collective and able to see the opportunities.
Patience, an ability to see opportunity in murky waters and an ability to see the trees, not the forest, those are the traits that will take you through.
Manage your mind, that is the first command. Everything else depend on how effective you do that.