1. Take more cab rides

That’s if you are a corporate star who gets to fly all over the world in the airplane, or if you own a limo and the cost to maintain it is higher than taking the cab to travel between places.

In other words, it’s okay to downgrade to something more affordable rather than spending too much cash on something that gets your money flying out of your wallet like there’s no tomorrow.

2. Read more books

Have a good habit of reading books, especially on the ones related to your profession. Not only you will increase in knowledge, you too will stay employable in your company with related skill sets.

By the way you don’t have to exactly buy any books to read and learn from. There’s this useful place called the library. Just remember to return the books once you finished reading them or when you are about to reach the date due.

3. Go jogging, running, swimming…

The last thing you would want to do is to fall sick in this current financial situation. Keep yourself fit by picking up a new sport to play, or head to the gym to sweat it out.

If you are into running marathons, go ahead and join them! Finishing the run in the top 100 position is an achievement which will complement your skills in the workplace.

4. Start blogging

Probably this guy had just be retrenched from his job and is on the hunt for a new one which can be made into a career in the long run. Apart from him, there are thousands more who had suffered the unfortunate news of being “downsized” or “restructuring”. He can start blogging about the experience without a job while making new friends over on the net who is in the same situation as him.

There’s a huge community out there who even without a job can be very optimistic on landing themselves into a new one, and their positive thinking can affect the blog writer and other people in that community through encouragement and sharing their experiences from the days without work to do.

5. Be self-employed

This is one of the best time to be self-employed. If you are worried about being “laid off” from your current job, feel free to join in the ranks of the over achievers by putting your talents and skills into getting projects done.

Even if there’s a financial crisis going on and companies would definitely get affected, they too have to continue on with getting their products on the mainstream media (or social media), gaining publicity, doing up the sales, and training their staff. You can help solve their needs as a freelancer, consultant, or as a self-employed worker.

There’s bound to be demand for jobs to be done, this too is when you step into the picture to win the bid for the project, and do it with excellence!

6. Put on a brave smile

It takes courage to even put on a smile when either one of the party had lost a significant amount of cash during the collapse of the banks.

Learn how to get things done with a smile from these two reference articles:

• Getting Things Done With a SMILE!
• Getting Things Done With a BIGGER SMILE!

Now not only you are able to put on a smile in the midst of this financial situation, you too have the skills to deal with the dues.

7. Just stop worrying!

Easier said than done! Okay, there are 5 simple steps that you can take to cut down on your worrying:

• Create a checklist for the stuff that you are worrying about
• Set a specific time of the day to worry about those items written in the checklist
• Find solutions if possible
• Clear off the checklist once you’ve went through every single bit of it
• And stop thinking of those things again after discarding the checklist

There’s no point to thinking the same thoughts over again, especially with the ones that are related to your worries.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. ~ Mary Hemingway