By Kathryn A. Thomas

Being employed in the conventional sense means working for a corporation or company who provides the employee with job and future financial security. Now with companies folding by the thousands that promise may seem less likely. So what does America do when her ample backside is against the wall? Well giving up isn’t the answer. Falling into doom and gloom isn’t the answer. Creativity is.

Recreate yourself with strong knowledge that there are many skills inside which make you who you are and no one else.

So, who are you?

The inclination toward fear can rock someone with great self-confidence and demeanor. The people winning the jobs are those finding connections, those not giving up, those finding an inner perseverance and belief in themselves that might have been undiscovered until the terror of unemployment. What if the successful people of 2010 will be able to look back on this recession as the most powerful catalyst they had yet experienced in their lives?

The last home I owned was a place in the path of Hurricanes Jeanne and Frances during 2004.  Things began to change rapidly for me when I had to put my home back together without proper » Read more: Staying Motivated: The Gift of this Recession