2. Start a journal, if you don’t already have one. Chronicle your activities, how you feel while doing them, and how you feel afterwards. Watch patterns of your emotions so that you can start to predict when something is going to be stressful and uncomfortable. Schedule a fun activity afterwards to help you regain your balance. If certain activities make you feel buoyant and hopeful, concentrate on increasing such activities throughout week.

3. Approach interviews with thought that each one is really only practice for perfect position you will eventually find. Perform as well as you can without investing your sense of worth in one person’s decision. If it takes a hundred interviews to secure a job, each “No” you receive brings you one step closer to that final “Yes” you are seeking and therefore every step on road to unemployment is worthwhile and “rejection” no longer belongs in your vocabulary.

Besides physical action, fun puts job search into a frame- work that relieves tension of being out of work.

Finally, re-working your job search plans and finding a community of peers will put process into a new pers- pective.

Try these suggestions. AND, JUST GET MOVING!