Are you looking for a new role? It’s easy to become frustrated, pessimistic or downright low about the process. It’s only natural.

Luckily for you, you have an incredible tool at your disposal to combat this - your mind!

If you tell your mind that you’re feeling cold, you’ll quickly notice it feels a little chiller in the room. Tell your mind it’s heating up around you and suddenly you notice that you feel a little warmer.

The power of suggestion is remarkable.

So here’s something you can do to remain optimistic while looking for a new role: choose one positive thing to tell yourself, to suggest to yourself, on a daily basis.

It can be as simple as this: ‘today is a completely new day, it hasn’t come before and will never come again, the possibilities are endless, and on this day I will take steps in the direction of my goal’.

My advice is to do this each day. If you do this every day as part of your job search, your mindset will have no choice but to be more positive.

And a positive mindset puts you in a better place for landing that next role.