Job Security: The Worst Goal Ever Set.
I am using the word goal loosely. A real goal needs to be written, revised, and reviewed for it to be useful. Saying and thinking something many times over a course of a lifetime is more of an affirmation, but still very powerful. I use the word goal, because affirming something in our mind is about as close as 95% of the population will ever get to goal setting.
Here is why affirming that you want "job security" is so damaging and a disservice to yourself. What happens when you continually affirm something, or set a goal, is that your actions and your outwardly habits, consciously and subconsciously, seek out the means and methods to reach this end objective. Basically, you may not even know that the actions you are taking right now are all in an effort to help you obtain the objective you have been affirming. This is exactly why goals and affirmations are so powerful and why you should use them for positive purposes.
When people set as their main goal in life, job security, the effects often include:
1. They stay at companies for decades never really accomplishing what they could have. Creativity shuts down.
2. They settle for lesser jobs and lesser companies with the hopes of being able to stay longer.
3. They go along and compromise even when they know they shouldn't. Fear is their main driver.
4. They get complacent and stop learning and growing, making their value outdated in the marketplace.
5. They organize together in an effort to reach their job security goals, all at the long-term expense of their company or industry.
6. They start to seek out what others can do for them, such as looking to a Government for more security.
7. They get bitter and resentful at the fresh new hire out of school and because others are passing them by. They sit around feeling threatened and dispersing negativity, versus continually improving themselves and staying one step ahead.
8. They subscribe to broken economic and political philosophies that they believe might get themselves closer to their job and life security objectives.
9. They hang around with others who share their philosophy.
10. Probably the biggest negative effect is that they pass this mentality on to younger generations. Have you looked around these days? While it is not everyone, you have a generation of people whose main goal seems to be developing a useless social identity online and off. You have a generation that is screaming and fighting for more government and government programs. You have a generation that has not connected a few things, like real effort, hard work, and developing themselves over a sustained period of time leads to a great life. You have people subscribing to political and social labels in an effort to make up for their insecurities.
You have a horribly misinformed generation of people that does not understand that America's capitalist society has produced more good for people than all other countries on earth combined. They don't get that we, for now, have what everyone else no longer has, and that is incentive. Take away incentive, and it does not take much looking around outside of America to see that the results are disastrous.
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