{"id":73,"date":"2009-02-18T22:31:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T03:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonybeshara.com\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2009-02-18T22:31:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-19T03:31:39","slug":"keeping-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tonybeshara.com\/blog\/keeping-motivated\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;keeping motivated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>when the news sucks, like it does, and you are either out of work or anxiously looking for a job while you have one, it is easy to get down&#8230;some even get depressed<\/p>\n<p>so many folks today have never had to look for a job or haven&#8217;t seen such a difficult job market..<\/p>\n<p>the first thing to do is to take massive action toward looking for a new job&#8230;but one of the most important things you can do is to read motivational books, listen to motivational tapes and CD&#8217;s, pray, feed the spirit and stay around positive people..<\/p>\n<p>the world is a negative place&#8230;blame adam and eve or anyone you wish, but the world is simply negative&#8230;there is much joy, beauty and awe, but life on this earth is plain old difficult&#8230;even in the best of times&#8230;we are born crying and childbirth is painful<\/p>\n<p>we have to be constantly &#8220;overlaying&#8221; 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