If the last few years have taught
me anything its this: the one thing you will need more than anything else more than even proper research and interview preparation – is resiliency. Resiliency is the winners edge in this, or
any market. Winning is not a sometime thing its an all the time thing. You dont
win once in a while; you dont do things right once in a while; you do them
right all the time. Winning is a habit, so says Vincent Lombardi, footballs winningest coach.

Resiliency the Winners Edge

Winners share one special quality -
resiliency. As defined by The American
Heritage Dictionary of the English Language:

For our purposes, resiliency quite
simply is the ability to take disappointment or take a hit as Vince Lombardi
would say, and get up, and keep going.

You know full well that if you were
at work and you ran into an obstacle that prevented you from launching a new
product or reaching a key client for information that was going to help you be
more successful on the job, youd find a way around it or through it.

Put another way, if you found out
you had the winning lottery ticket in your hand with fifteen minutes left to
claim the $2 million youd find a way to do it  even if you had to walk up
hill in a snow storm both ways – with a leg cast on!

Your job search is no different and
no less lucrative (40 yrs x 50K = $2 million). This is your life. Take complete
charge of it. Develop your plan and then
start implementing it with resiliency. Parlay your series of jobs into a purposeful career.

First-hand Experience

All around you the people who have
the character and courage you admire most in life have gone through pivotal
moments in their lives. Times where
theyve pushed forward and won against all odds. Whether it was a job loss, a death in the
family, a health problem, or something as simple as getting through
university, you admire them for it. That
experience gave them resiliency and transformed them into winners. From that moment forward winning becomes habitual for them and their resiliency permeates everything they do.