How to Rise Again After Losing your Job?

When you face a career challenge, it is common to suffer a painful loss. You may feel that you are not the successful professional you once were.

You are certainly not a failure, and you are still the same successful person you have always been, but you are facing a new challenge. These challenges do not negate your previous work and success, and you are now between two options: either to be preoccupied with your ordeal or to find your deeper human identity.

We can draw strength and inspiration from the "famous failures" that led to a new rise and incredible success. For example, Elvis Presley earned a middle grade in a high school music class and was told he could not sing. Walt Disney was fired from a newspaper because he "lacks imagination" and "has no real ideas."

Lucille Ball was asked to give up acting because she had "no talent" and Oprah Winfrey was downgraded from her job as a broadcaster and told she was "not suitable for television."

This list goes on and on about where these stars succeeded because they endured the difficulties they faced and resisted. They did not allow others to identify their personalities; rather, they determined their forms. So don't let adversity identify you; how you deal with it is what matters.

Four ways to rise and start working again when you lose a job

Here are four ways to rise and start working again when you lose a job:

1. Stop thinking about catastrophic situations

Your mind leads you as crazy as you allow it. So learn how to spot your own "catastrophic thinking" situation and how to resist it. If you are unemployed and do not find a job, your mind may put you in this vicious circle. You may think that you are spending your savings, that the money will run out, that you will not get a job and that your savings will end.  You may think that you will have to work in the supermarket if the supermarket owner accepts your employment, and you may think after that that you cannot live on that salary, you will not be able to feed your family, and you will be homeless.

Replace your disastrous ideas with more realistic ones, and train your mind to admit that the situation is difficult but that you can find a solution. Anxiety about homelessness and bankruptcy is common, especially when we have to start over or reinvent ourselves. In this case, self-doubt feeds on itself and you lose your ability to think logically, which makes you lose hope.

You may flog yourself because you haven't seen the likelihood of this situation happening or you may feel that you could have done more to prevent it. You may flog yourself for not saving more or failing to communicate better, and you may think others are making fun of you, or you may be getting very angry, but how do any of these ideas help you?

Instead of thinking that no one wants to work with you, start believing in your abilities and your determination to succeed. You can think about something else, which is that success is still ahead of you and that you are not finished yet, and repeat thinking about this a lot.

2. Anxiety attack

You are certainly worried now; this is because we are all worried. Take Linda Cruz, who had an excellent career in the pharmaceutical industry before going through one setback after another until she finally got a job. She was making less than a third of what she used to make. She said, "You know what you can do, but no one wants you anymore; it makes you feel lonely; they don't appreciate what you have."

The US radio presenter Chuck Leonard said that he had been offended during the last two years of his work as an insurance analyst—knowing that he was not wanted there—and that he was sure he would be fired, which ultimately happened. He said: "It was humiliating at every level; I was frustrated for two years, and then I had no work, no insurance, no dignity, no hope; I felt like I disappointed everyone, and I couldn't get an interview.

No matter how many jobs I applied for, it took nine months—the longest nine months of my life. One company interviewed me four times; thank God they hired me, and I'm so grateful."

How do you stop worrying when your whole life is out of control?

• Exercising: Research has found that exercise increases your mental alertness, focus, and cognitive function while also reducing fatigue. Physical activity produces endorphins and helps us sleep. This reduces stress, and by exercising, you will improve your health and reduce your anxiety.
• Volunteering: When you feel useless, be useful. When you help others, you feel better about yourself, and the negatives that were preoccupying you disappear. It is good to know that you are important and that you contribute to achieving a goal.
• Focus on doing just one thing: When you feel helpless, do one thing that gives you the momentum to fix your situation. Even if there are 10 things you should do, focusing on one of them is possible. So instead of focusing on 10 problems, pick one. You may need to focus on all of them, but that's It's better to get one job done than to get distracted by the thought of getting 10 things done together.

3. Stop complaining like others

There are countless online posts of people complaining about failing things in their careers, their mistreatment, how they can't find work anywhere, and how they can't get rest. Reading such a 10-minute speech is enough to make me feel depressed.

When things go wrong, you can take steps to prevent yourself from being drawn into despair, and the more you let yourself flop, the worse things will look. So don't talk too much about your situation, and don't let others fumble either; don't keep telling them what happened to you.  If you have a friend going through the same thing, decide if you can keep each other on track to feeling better or if you're frustrating each other.

4. Never give up

Indeed, you don't enjoy the situation you're in, but have you ever enjoyed those painful moments when someone or something forces you to get up and see what you're going to do with the rest of your life? What you did that time, you can do again now.

A friend or family member may suddenly get hurt, so even if you're facing some serious career challenges, don't forget what you have, don't forget your life, and while you're figuring out what to do next, don't forget to enjoy your life. You don't know how much time you have left; its use is up to you.