Any good plan deserves a goal. Begin with the end in mind, is another way of stating this. The book, The Secret says it another way, that it is in the intention that we create what we want.
But these ideas miss the core issue. There is a deeper angle to the dilemma of finding employment and moving your career ahead. It’s not a mental game of thinking your way into the next job. The problem solving, figuring it out, strategizing comes later.
Finding a job takes heart.
I want to back up and state for the record that heart and brain are not living in separate towns inside your body. They are interrelated, sharing blood, nutrients and dna. But we fixate on thinking that thinking is the way out of a problem.
Finding a job takes opening your heart. This is where your passions reside. And it is your passion that gets you up off your chair and motivates you to seek in the world. 
When I interview people for jobs (my one career), or in my second career, resume coaching, I see people who are not connected to their heart energy. They are confused, and resistant to do the work. The mind is in charge. They have so many reasons why they can’t. Why they don’t, why not.
That’s the mind churning and the fear talking.
When you are in touch with the heart of you, you are connected to the passions that enliven you. Heart energy motivates, it overrides the mental negativity. Heart energy gives you that passion to want to meet with others, discuss what interests you. Heart energy gives you that oomph that allows you to be friendly, curious, willing to keep going, connecting to others.
Can you imagine the entrepreneur who has a new idea? She is passionate, engaged, wanting others to know about her new thing. Hearing “no” doesn’t deter the person who is wild about her new invention. She knows that others will benefit from it, that it will serve a purpose and be profitable.
That’s passion, heart energy, and it resides within, waiting, wanting to awaken, to be of service to the overactive brain we all overuse.
Take time to network with your heart first, then you’ll be ready to network with the world out there.
How to do that? Be kind to yourself. Do some (cheap) things you haven’t done in years, but keep meaning to. Take a walk in nature to rediscover the awesome unfolding that spring is doing right now. Get out of your head, and soften to the wonderfulness of heart energy.
