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So you’ve lost your job, huh? That’s sucks. Or does it? What if it’s the best thing that ever happened to you? What if it’s a blessing in disguise? I know you might feel terrible about it, but millions of people who’ve lost there jobs are deciding to re-interpret what unemployment means. They’re going from UNemploymed to FUNemployed. And you can too!

5 Steps for Turning UNemployment into FUNemployment

1. Drop the Guilt and Fear: These are new times. Lots of people are losing there jobs. You may lose your job many more times. It doesn’t mean you’re bad. It doesn’t mean you’re not taking care of your family. Feeling bad about losing your job is a waste of time. Surrender to the situation, be grateful for the fresh opportunities before you, and get curious and excited about what you could do with your time off work!

2. Take a Mini Retirement: This is an opportunity: an opportunity to start a new chapter in your life; an opportunity to catch your breath, an opportunity to take a Mini Retirement! Tim Ferris’ book “4 Hour Workweek” explains how counting on a nice retirement at the end of your life is no longer a valid strategy. There’s too much uncertainty with the economy, social security, finances and your health. It’s much smarter to take mini-retirements throughout your life. There is no longer a stigma attached to taking off 3,6 or 12 months between jobs.

3. Carpe Diem: So seize the day! Give yourself permission to have the time of your life! Whether you just have a lot more fun with the flexibility and time you have during your job search, or whether you take a full on mini-retirement - have fun with your unemployment!

4. Swap Time for Money: When you have a good job, you have money, but no time to enjoy it. When you’re without work, you’re rich with time but have limited money. How exciting! You just need to learn how to be clever & creative with your cash.

5. Do Something Stupendous! I hope by now your brain is running wild with ideas for things you could do with your time off. Do something exciting! Do something that people will be amazed by! Do something that makes a great story! Do something that will fill a photo album that will make you laugh, and smile and relive happy memories all the days your life. Make this unemployment a FUNemployment!

What might you do with your FUNemployment? Learn a language? See concerts? Teach your children to surf? Learn the accordion? Backpack South America? Volunteer to help save the rain forest? Write your memoirs? Finish that screenplay? Play your favorite video game to the end? Find a cure for baldness? Please share your ideas in the comments section!

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