Worried about Your Job? Twelve recovery steps. Part Two

I love a good sequel. This post is the sequel where the central figure (you) takes control of the sad state of life and turns it into a thrilling opportunity, with Oscars and entourages in the future.
If you’ve implemented the first 6 steps, you have a running chance of feeling like you’re in control. Remember, feeling like you may have control of the situation is 90% of the battle. You’re well on the way to taking things into your own hands and that’s terrific.
Here are the next six steps:

7.    Understand the advantages of owning your own business. Why do I have this AFTER learning how to set up a business? Because there are a number of different advantages to different business entities. Once you’ve decided to create a business, it’s important to decide what the peculiar advantages of a sole proprietorship may be over, say, an LLC.

8.     Get a positive mindset. If you haven’t developed one by now, DO IT. Subscribe to this blog. Borrow books on success from the library. Practice affirmations. Be around positive people. Get free stuff on the Web. In a later post, I’ll tell you what works for me and some others.

9.    Develop an entrepreneurial mindset. Michael E. Gerber describes people who go into business for themselves generally find themselves creating another job. This is called an entrepreneurial seizure, and it seems to affect lawyers pretty badly. Instead, start looking at your law degree as a gateway to larger enterprise-building opportunities that build passive income and let you have a life. Learn from other entrepreneurs, like Gerry Robert, Guy Kawasaki, and others.

10.   Learn to deal with rejection. Jack Canfield has a great remedy for rejection. Reject it. It’s that simple. You may not get the perfect job immediately, or find the perfect client. Just keep going. There’s another way to do deal with rejection, and that’s to use its opposite.

11.   Use attraction instead. Attract people to you. Get them to come to you because you’ve established yourself as an authority, or you’ve let other people know about you, or you have a killer network.

12.   Lead your team. By now, you should have made friends with an accountant, a mentor, a bunch of lawyers, and people who need what you have to offer. Take time and brainstorm who should be on your team, but remember you are the only leader.

Recognize that you’re taking things into your own hands. This is a baker’s dozen, I guess. There’s a tremendous amount of power in recognizing that you are capable of creating your life. Recognize that your law school education puts you head and shoulders above your competitors in other businesses. Socratic learning may have its downside, but you now have the skill set that will, 99% of the time, give you the edge.
Just do it. Get started today.