I put this together for a presentation on hope for a training seminar I'm taking... enjoy!

2. Hope

3. We hope that our circumstances change
We hope we can better than we are now
We hope that everything turns out alright

4. Where do
I go from
here?

5. “If today were
the last day of
my life, would I
want to do
what I am
about to do
today?”

6. So what are the keys to
finding hope?

7. • 100 used a single method
of job search
• 100 used multiple
methods
• How did they fare?
Job Seeker
Survey

8. 51%Of those who relied on only one search
method quit within one month

9. More than 2/3 of those using
two or more methods were
still going after 30 days

10. Diversity of
perspective
The ability to see more
than one way out

11. It’s all about how
you look at it

12. Sentenced
to 5 years
• 10 year back up
• 500 hours com
service
• Keep a job
• Remain drug
free

13. Insurmountable

14. What can you control?

15. First things
first
Focus on what we can
control or change

16. A study of
patients
Each were paired
according to
illness, prognosis, an
d recovery time
One with a short
recovery time, and
one with a long time

17. Those with the quickest
recovery times believed that
their illness had meaning

18. There’s
always a
second act
The story doesn’t end here

19. In February 2009 the
U.S. Job Market
lost 726,000 jobs

20. The unemployment
rate rose from 7.6%
to 8.1% overnight

21. At the same time,
4.3 million jobs were
found and an
additional 3 million
were available

22. Ignore the
statistics
They don’t tell the
whole story

23. Two friends with dramatically
different attitudes

24. Two friends with dramatically
different outcomes

25. When it
comes to
hope…
Attitude
really is
everything

26. -Questions-