2. Warm Contacts.

From everyone you seek out while you are making personal contacts, you try to obtain names and contact numbers of people they know and if you can use their names as a source of referral. If all people you directly know, literally dozens, give you a few names to call, you may have well over a hundred names within a few days. Frequently first and second level contacts are all that is required. Someone you touch will know of something suitable somewhere.

3. Tepid and Cold Contacts.

If you are really unfortunate, your circle of social acquaintances is very limited, your geographic area has devastating economic blight, your have negative or limiting personal aspects (prison record, disabilities, a very poor work record), then you may need to expand an extra level or two. Secondary referrals have some potential but more tenuous link between you and your friends and target person, less effort to help you is likely to be encountered. When you have exhausted all of your contact lists, unlikely but possible, you are left with standard job search techniques (classifieds, internet, job fairs, agencies) or cold calling. Cold calls, whether by telephone or, preferably, in person, require you to call or walk into an employer without any introduction, and with no knowledge of any openings. You are likely to receive many negative responses to your queries but sometimes you just happen to time it perfectly and there is a newly available position that suits you. While chances are sobering, you can still feel proud that you are out in world, taking positive actions for yourself, rather than withdrawing into sanctuary of home where odds against success become astronomical.

In a nutshell; what you think is what you become. So, if for past weeks, months or years you have been thinking negative thoughts. For example: you have been thinking that you are not good enough to do something. You have insufficient skills to do a particular job. You feel that you are not as good as another person. You believe that you are ‘thick’. You believe that you are not as good as others. You believe that your time will come when your children have left home. You believe you will be able to do it when you have more money. You believe that fundamentally you are not made that way. You maintain that you are no suited to that particular way. Whatever negativity you have been thinking of.

These are not thoughts that breed success and happiness. These thoughts may well be with you as a result of way you grew up and your education. They may be part of your being, but if you want a successful, happy life they are not going to help you.

The fact is, most people who aim to be successful go for it hook line and sinker. Then when they have achieved they will be able to buy all things they want and then they will be happy.

Wrong.

To become successful and powerful you have to change way you do things. To do more of what you have always done is not going to work, that is just going to give you same results. You have to do something different. As Einstein said :

‘one cannot solve a problem at level of thinking that is creating problem’.

Success comes from changing your thoughts. You just have to change your thoughts. Often people try to live their lives backwards: They try to have more things in order to do more of what they want, so that they will be happier. The way it actually works is reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do in order to have what you want. (Shakti Gawain, in Creative Visualization) It’s as easy as that. All you have to do: is change your thoughts, live life in opposite direction to that which you currently live. Can you visualise that? That’s most under rated method to achieve success.

Good Luck

Graham and Julie www.desktop-meditation.com