How do you stay positive and motivated to look for a job when your personal life keeps turning upside down? I thought I had everything settled in a family matter, so I woke up this morning with a plan to freelance and job hunt, only to have missed calls over another thing I had to fix. Have you had this experience, what do you do? Any advice on how to block out others to get work done?

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Same way as I would dealing with personal matters when I'm employed. I don't let it impact my end goal of the day or week. If my goal for the day is to apply to 3 postings, I push personal matters of all things aside and apply to 3 postings. Then I allow them the privelage of having my attention for a given amount of time. Not the full-day. I strongly believe that we give permission to people to treat us the way they do. 100% easier said than done, and I had to do some serious therapy to work my way out of being a people pleaser.

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