Eat to Get the Job
For a million reasons it is of critical importance that you make wise choices around what your health and what you eat during this challenging period. Don’t compromise on the quality of your food, and certainly not because you may be concerned about cost. You can eat well – well for our purposes defined as healthy – and do it without great cost.
You are what you eat has never been truer, and never with more import. Eat crappy and you will look and feel crappy. Eat a lot of vegs, fruits, and whole grains, along with exercise and everything else prescribed in this blog, and you walk into that interview radiating health. If the cut fo the job comes down to you and someone else. You both have impressive credentials and experience. A healthy presentation is subtle and noticed. But, for the moment forget about any interview.
We need good health and energy to get it up to mount a search and then, if the planets be lined up right, writing a hell of a good cover letter. You want all those pistons firing when an opportunity pops its head up. Good healthy nutritious food equals pistons firing. It’s that simple. You’ve got one shot at that perfect job. Think like an athlete. Train for that moment, when you come across a job listing with your name on it. What won’t you do to get your foot in the door? Eat tofu?
It’s not that bad. No, not the tofu; eating healthy, although I like tofu and eat it often. They say you need 9 servings of fruits and vegetables every day. Just do it! Back off on the coffee, which taps out your adrenal glands. Ease off on the red meat, which makes your body work overtime digesting. Forgive me for being anatomical, but ye of loose bowels will fare much better navigating this journey than ye of the constipated disposition.
In a nutshell: more fresh veggies, gently cooked, more fruit, preferably locally grown, whole grains, beans, with some fish and some chicken. Not no red meat; just ease up on it. Drink water and plenty of it. Less alcohol.
Call me anal retentive, but I’m not putting anything in my body, particularly during this period in my life, which could possibly make me one less iota on the ball either in the quality of my job search, writing a cover letter, or in an interview. I’m not giving up one single brain cell (not that I have so many to give up anyway) for anything, if it means I might be even a half a beat off in doing what I have to do to get the job. You think this is a tough thing to suggest. Wait until six months of unemployment turns into 12 months to 18 months. You’ll be eating tofu.
Tags: confidence, employment, Health, impression, job
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