Your mind-set makes or breaks your search for jobs in Kenya

Reality takes on the form of the person observing it.
Isn’t that a rather strange thing to say?
Let me explain how that works.
Let us say your friend has bought a new mobile phone. It is a real cool phone, with all the funky functions. Its shiny, it’s cool and it is in your eyes the perfect phone.
When your friend bought this phone, they took time to show it to you and you spent time looking at it. So you are now familiar with the way it ‘looks’.
Suddenly, as you walk on the streets, get onto a public transport vehicle, walk around your neighbourhood, you start to see other people with the same phone.
Question? Did all those people pick a phone similar to the one that your friend has just after you saw it?

Most certainly not! They had the phone with them, only you were not ‘awake’ to seeing it. But when you spent time looking at your friend’s phone, opened different functions, interacted with it – that interaction made you ‘awake’ to the presence of all those other similar phones around.
There is so much happening in your continuing reality all of the time, that your brain cannot keep up with the details. It is totally impossible for you to be ‘aware’ or ‘awake’ to everything around you all of the time. That is why you need to hear the report of more than one eyewitness to get a fairly accurate impression of an event. Different people are simply aware of different things in the same environment.
Why is that important to you if you are searching for a job in Kenya? Because you cannot ‘see’ what you are not aware of. That is how people get hit by lorry. They say, ‘the lorry came out of nowhere’. For that fraction of a minute they were unaware of traffic, the lorry whacked them.
The minute you start to think that there could just be a possibility of just one job in Kenya for you somewhere, events will begin to come into your ‘sight’. But it starts with your choice, to change your mind-set.You mind-set will make or break your ability to find a job in Kenya.
In the words of a famous writer, ‘The moment one definitely commits oneself, Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred… raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Johan Wolfgang Von Goethe.
Paula Thayrow – 6th December 2009