How To Stay Calm During Job Search
Channel: MherMardoyan Career Coach
Date: 2020-03-07

There's always going to be a level of not having solid ground, especially when you're applying to jobs. 

I remember in my life, not necessarily applying to jobs, but in other times, I experienced uncertainty that increased my likelihood of becoming anxious. What I would say is, you should focus on what you can control. A lot of job seekers will be like, “I sent this resume over to this recruiter, but he hasn't responded back to me, or I don't know what's going to happen”. There's a lot of uncertainty. 

What I would say is, if you are in any spot in your life, where you're not certain where you're not in control, you must find ways to create certainty and to create control in your life. Remember when I told my story, I was at my rock bottom, I was overweight, I was anxious, and I was depressed, what I started to do was control what I can. I controlled what time I woke up, what I ate, started healthy self-care habits in the first hour of the day like; meditation, journaling, breathing exercises, reading all things that have been shown to decrease anxiety. 

Whenever you're in a time in your life where there are a lot of things happening, it's super important to focus on creating your own version of control and have certainty. When you're in the middle of the day, you're trying to apply to jobs, a lot of the times you might have a renewed sense or feeling of control and of sort of certainty in your life, I guarantee you're going to send out way more resumes than you normally would.
I'm a big believer in, in biochemistry, in terms of anxiety. A lot of people drink coffee to stay focus, but if you are drinking more than four cups a day to stay focus, but you are creating more anxiety. Other people eat food or cake, all that sugar in that dessert that you just ate for breakfast is going to spike your blood sugar. Spiking your blood sugar has been heavily correlated to increase rates of anxiety, because what happens is after your body is done metabolizing that sugar, it goes into a panic response. 

But if you fill your body with healthy food, complex carbohydrates, healthy fats, protein, your body is not going to have the same biochemical response. Personally, I think that anxiety can be divided and be looked at in two different ways: One of them is at a general level, your body, your mind, your soul, is making you anxious because you're somebody who you are not. But on the other side of the spectrum, the other 50% is your biochemistry. You could literally be working the best job, have the best relationships, have the best family, make a decent amount of money, have certainty in your life, but you could still be anxious.  If you're not eating healthy, you don't exercise, you barely sleep, you stay up all night hustling, that can equally create anxiety too.

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