GUIDELINE 7

Never Stop Looking for New Career Opportunities

IT takes approximately two months for a new behavior to become automatic and anywhere between 18 to 254 days to form a habit. The latter period depends on several factors, such as personal characteristics, intensity and type of the action, substances (or lack thereof) involved, and others. No wonder that my daily routine of looking for a new job after I left the law firm became second nature to me. During that time, I implemented a similar schedule to fill up my days. It prevented me from procrastination and introduced a structure to my new reality. Each morning I would refresh my mailbox hoping for a message of acceptance, then I would check on the status of the applications I submitted, ...

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