Simplify Your Life and Your Job Search Will Follow

Simplify Your Life and Your Job Search Will FollowSimplify Your Life and Your Job SearchSimplify Your Life and Your Job Search Will FollowYou might not know it, but this is Simplify Your Life Week (August 1-7). With the economy as rocky as its been for the past couple years, many of us have been simplifying our lives whether we like it or not. Fewer expensive indulgences. More time at home. Personally, I like it (mostly).In the past, I often thought, Life is pretty good, but once I have enough money to buy X, itll be perfect. Yeah, right. Thats the old carrot-and-stick dilemma. The carrot youre chasing just keeps advancing along with you. And things keep getting more and more complicated. A lot of people seem to be deciding that simpler is better. Look at our reality TV preferences 20 years ago, reality shows were all about the lifestyles of the rich and famous. Today, we love seeing people sell their possessions on Pawn Stars, and watching the folks on Operation Repo take back unpai d luxury cars, boats, and motorcycles from former Jones (or Kardashian) keeper-uppers. Its as if our collective thinking has changed from, Waah I deserve an fein lifestyle, too to Hah At least Im not that bad (yet) Whats this got to do with your job search? Heres where I see the connection When it comes to employment, the rules have changed, the promises have been broken, and there are no more guarantees. So its up to each of us to make some simple (not necessarily easy, but simple) decisions about how we define success for ourselves, and what type of employment situation will help us achieve it. And then, we need to take the steps to create that reality.Entrepreneur Jim Rohn said, Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. So I hope we can all celebrate Simplify Your Life Week (and beyond) by figuring out the few simple disciplines that we can do each day to move us closer to our own brand of success.