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I’ve come to the conclusion that whatever you try to do there will always be negative influences in your life.  These negative influence can be as big or part of your life as you choose. Learning how to control and remove these negative influences is a very important thing to do. This will help both you both in your personal and professional life.

How To Remove Negative Influences

1.  Whenever you hear a negative thought or comment simply don’t give much thought to it.
2. Think of a positive thought when you hear something negative. Positivity always beats negativity and one positive thought will cancel out lots of negative energy.
3. If you deal with negative people remove as much contact with them as possible if you can’t remove them completely from your life.
4. Removing negative places is just as important as removing negative people. If you go to businesses that give your bad service every now and then or treat you bad avoid them. Negative places/people should be avoided as much as possible.

Just remember this. You are what you think. If you’re a positive happy person you will attract positive people and experiences. People also tend to be negative because they have problems or had experiences that made them negative. If you remove as many of these negative influences as possible you will succeed and prosper more.

If the world was perfect we would all be working in our ideal location. Unfortunately living in a ideal location may not always be possible. For several years I was living in locations I deemed undesirable just to make a good living. It truly was because I lacked the know how to conduct a job hunt properly. Once I learned how to conduct a regionalized job hunt I truly tapped into the power of controlling where I lived.

I truly believe though nobody should be forced to live in a bad location. The best tip I can give everyone out there is to try to network with others in your field in your preferred locations to live. You may not be able to get your desired city but you should be able to get a network in your desired region which is almost good enough to satisfy your location preference.

I’ve always wondered why some people are so against checking out the competition.  A person has absolutely nothing to loose even if they are happy with there current employer. I think the advantages of networking for outweigh the disadvantages of not networking while you have a job.

•  Learn The Market: Networking while you have a job gives you a chance to discover what the current market is like for  your skill set. Knowing what the market is like give you a chance to know just where you stand if you loose your job. Wouldn’t it be great to know lots of companies that hire for your skill set if you lost your job? Just knowing that would be half the battle if you lost your job? Your research would be almost complete if you lost your job.

• Make Contacts In Your Industry: This is by far one of the best advantages of  looking while employed. Since you are already employed you are see as a more desirable candidate. Making contacts in your industry is far easier to do when you are employed. You can make a few contacts every now and then. By the time your next job contact comes you have lots of contacts to contact about opportunities.

• Have A Backup Plan In Case Of Job Loss:  Having a backup plan in case of a job loss is very important. Do you really want to struggle finding contacts to help you find work if you lost your job? Having a large network network you can start looking for work almost immediately if you’ve made good connections in your industry.

• See If There Are Better Opportunities:  The grass is not always greener with another opportunity. What I can tell you is that how do you know what you are truly worth? Would you change your job even if you knew you’d get better treatment? It never hurts to just see what’s out there. Nobody will ever force you to take another job that you truly don’t want.

These are just some of the advantages of networking while you have a job.