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How To Survive Unemployment (from the Mind Your Business Radio Show)
How to Survive Being Unemployed <----- PODCAST DIRECT LINK
You also can find this special edition of the Mind Your Business podcast on nearly every podcast platform including Spotify, Apple, Google Podcasts, YouTube or where ever your other favorite podcasts are. Make sure to favorite us to stay up with future shows. Mind Your Business Radio Show comes out every Saturday at 11AM Eastern, and other times throughout the week when ever great content is ready.
A full written transcription of the podcast will be available later today and added here to the forum in this thread. Feel free to share the podcast of “How to Survive Being Unemployed” with anyone who needs it by giving them the link above, or sharing the link on your social media.
Like millions of people across the world, I once found myself unemployed and in a financial catastrophe. I had no income, no money, and no time. It is normal to not know how to deal with this unexpected crisis. Most of what you will read on line talks about State and Federal assistance, and other social programs. While not wanting to minimize their importance in your recovery plan, you can find that information elsewhere. What I have laid out in the Mind Your Business Radio Show called “How to Survive Being Unemployed” is a straight forward action plan that almost anyone can use to survive in the immediate aftermath of a financial disaster. I am trained by the Red Cross as a disaster action team member, and this checklist draws from the physical and psychological first aid that I have been trained to provide disaster victims. Use it to survive an unexpected financial crisis, and methodically map out a plan to recovery.
You’re in shock. You don’t know what to do. Let me do your thinking for you through this unique window of time. Follow the following steps :
Step 1 : Take a 3 Day Sabbatical (Mini Vacation) to clear your mind and give yourself a bit of time to just breathe.
Step 2. Get organized, on paper. Get out a notebook or a legal pad and start to track the objectives and action plan. Get your thoughts out of your head and on to paper. If you happen to be an INSIDERS at the FastLane forum, than use the TO DO List from MJ DeMarco. If not, then just start an old fashioned list on lined paper. Let what ever you need to do flow from your head to your pen. Get it all down on paper.
Step 3: Short term, cover food, shelter, clothing. Don’t worry today about anything but immediate, short term needs. Generate some short term income. What can you sell? Where can you work? Adjust your standards to cover your immediate needs for food, shelter and clothing. We can deal with long term plans later. Today, lets just figure out how to cover immediate needs. There are several ideas on the podcast or in the written transcription.
Step 4: Mid Term plan. Communicate. Get some breathing room by talking with landlords, credit card companies, car loan companies, student loan companies, insurance companies, or anyone else that needs to know of your mid term financial problem. Communicate, communicate, communicate. You might find relief programs offered to you, and you might not but it all starts with communication. Map all of these communications out on your written organizer. Strategic problem solving and proactive communication. Might even be of value to stop by and talk with a banker, not to get a loan but just to talk about finances and strategy.
Step 5 : Normal response : Do what everyone else is doing, including filing for unemployment, looking for jobs, and finding out what state and local programs are available to everyone in a similar circumstance. Don’t do what everyone else does, which is think that these programs are going to save you (they won’t). Don’t wait to be saved by someone else or some program, but use these as additional to your own independent self sustenance plan for food, shelter and clothing. Nobody else cares about you and your family as much as you do, so what ever systems everyone else is hoping for is NOT your primary game plan. But, apply apply apply for jobs and any social programs you can find meanwhile. For most people, that is the END of their plan. For you, that is just a few more data points on your checklist.
Step 6 : If you are mid-level to executive, now is the time to really dive into the LinkedIn website and network, network, network. If you are a blue collar or entry level worker, use your social media and in-person company visits to network, network, network. Write down a specific networking strategy and game plan on your written organizer.
Step 7. Become a voracious reader of the news. Become aware of economic news on a local and national basis. You have some time now, so fill your head with knowledge.
Step 8. Ask for help. Don’t let pride get in the way. Lean on friends and family if you need to for help in covering immediate needs of food, shelter and clothing. Your immediate circle WANTS to help.
Step 9. Tap ALL available resources. Don’t listen to people who tell you they know better that you do about your immediate term needs. Cover your immediate needs for food, shelter and clothing. If that means using a credit card, OK. If that means an early withdrawal from your 401(k), then OK. We’ll deal with retirement later, no matter what the financial gurus (who AREN’T unemployed) tell you. Do what you have to do, and don’t stress about it. Make it happen for today, and we will deal with tomorrow tomorrow.
This survival strategy checklist is a direct result of me being exactly where you were, and let this be a road map for you of how you can move forward and survive an unexpected financial calamity. Please share this message by sharing a link to this web site, sharing the podcast link and /or sharing the transcript when it's available.
How to Survive Being Unemployed <----- PODCAST DIRECT LINK
You also can find this special edition of the Mind Your Business podcast on nearly every podcast platform including Spotify, Apple, Google Podcasts, YouTube or where ever your other favorite podcasts are. Make sure to favorite us to stay up with future shows. Mind Your Business Radio Show comes out every Saturday at 11AM Eastern, and other times throughout the week when ever great content is ready.
A full written transcription of the podcast will be available later today and added here to the forum in this thread. Feel free to share the podcast of “How to Survive Being Unemployed” with anyone who needs it by giving them the link above, or sharing the link on your social media.
Like millions of people across the world, I once found myself unemployed and in a financial catastrophe. I had no income, no money, and no time. It is normal to not know how to deal with this unexpected crisis. Most of what you will read on line talks about State and Federal assistance, and other social programs. While not wanting to minimize their importance in your recovery plan, you can find that information elsewhere. What I have laid out in the Mind Your Business Radio Show called “How to Survive Being Unemployed” is a straight forward action plan that almost anyone can use to survive in the immediate aftermath of a financial disaster. I am trained by the Red Cross as a disaster action team member, and this checklist draws from the physical and psychological first aid that I have been trained to provide disaster victims. Use it to survive an unexpected financial crisis, and methodically map out a plan to recovery.
You’re in shock. You don’t know what to do. Let me do your thinking for you through this unique window of time. Follow the following steps :
Step 1 : Take a 3 Day Sabbatical (Mini Vacation) to clear your mind and give yourself a bit of time to just breathe.
Step 2. Get organized, on paper. Get out a notebook or a legal pad and start to track the objectives and action plan. Get your thoughts out of your head and on to paper. If you happen to be an INSIDERS at the FastLane forum, than use the TO DO List from MJ DeMarco. If not, then just start an old fashioned list on lined paper. Let what ever you need to do flow from your head to your pen. Get it all down on paper.
Step 3: Short term, cover food, shelter, clothing. Don’t worry today about anything but immediate, short term needs. Generate some short term income. What can you sell? Where can you work? Adjust your standards to cover your immediate needs for food, shelter and clothing. We can deal with long term plans later. Today, lets just figure out how to cover immediate needs. There are several ideas on the podcast or in the written transcription.
Step 4: Mid Term plan. Communicate. Get some breathing room by talking with landlords, credit card companies, car loan companies, student loan companies, insurance companies, or anyone else that needs to know of your mid term financial problem. Communicate, communicate, communicate. You might find relief programs offered to you, and you might not but it all starts with communication. Map all of these communications out on your written organizer. Strategic problem solving and proactive communication. Might even be of value to stop by and talk with a banker, not to get a loan but just to talk about finances and strategy.
Step 5 : Normal response : Do what everyone else is doing, including filing for unemployment, looking for jobs, and finding out what state and local programs are available to everyone in a similar circumstance. Don’t do what everyone else does, which is think that these programs are going to save you (they won’t). Don’t wait to be saved by someone else or some program, but use these as additional to your own independent self sustenance plan for food, shelter and clothing. Nobody else cares about you and your family as much as you do, so what ever systems everyone else is hoping for is NOT your primary game plan. But, apply apply apply for jobs and any social programs you can find meanwhile. For most people, that is the END of their plan. For you, that is just a few more data points on your checklist.
Step 6 : If you are mid-level to executive, now is the time to really dive into the LinkedIn website and network, network, network. If you are a blue collar or entry level worker, use your social media and in-person company visits to network, network, network. Write down a specific networking strategy and game plan on your written organizer.
Step 7. Become a voracious reader of the news. Become aware of economic news on a local and national basis. You have some time now, so fill your head with knowledge.
Step 8. Ask for help. Don’t let pride get in the way. Lean on friends and family if you need to for help in covering immediate needs of food, shelter and clothing. Your immediate circle WANTS to help.
Step 9. Tap ALL available resources. Don’t listen to people who tell you they know better that you do about your immediate term needs. Cover your immediate needs for food, shelter and clothing. If that means using a credit card, OK. If that means an early withdrawal from your 401(k), then OK. We’ll deal with retirement later, no matter what the financial gurus (who AREN’T unemployed) tell you. Do what you have to do, and don’t stress about it. Make it happen for today, and we will deal with tomorrow tomorrow.
This survival strategy checklist is a direct result of me being exactly where you were, and let this be a road map for you of how you can move forward and survive an unexpected financial calamity. Please share this message by sharing a link to this web site, sharing the podcast link and /or sharing the transcript when it's available.
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