I highly recommend any material by Eckhart Tolle. I specifically recommend
A New Earth.
The Power of Now (also by Eckhart Tolle) is good, too, but I found
A New Earth a little easier to read. It felt more structured, which I liked.
My bet is that you're very focused on this issue since it's something you encounter so often. And with that in mind, I recommend that you watch this video:
YouTube - ~Abraham-Hicks~ Money & The Manager
The great thing about the above video is that it clearly explains what you should do in terms of intentions and thought and feeling in general, and when you're in a situation where you want something different, but you're kind of forced to focus on what you don't want all the time.
I also really like this video, and think it'd be helpful to many people:
YouTube - MONEY AND THE LAW OF ATTRACTION: Aligning With Your Veritable Fortune - Abraham-Hicks
2:10 and onwards of the above video really helped me--the notion that the more you focus on something, the more it's included in your experience, and that even includes observing principles, such as the law of attraction, etc. There is no upper limit: inclusion applies to everything, from stuff you want, to reality mechanics you might consider.
Abraham-Hicks have some great material, and I really find their stuff helpful. I find their audio and video content to be better than their books, since their books are generally incomplete (they don't cover all the different areas; I'm a fan of understanding the mechanics of something, not just hearing analogies or processes I can use), and I find it helpful to hear Esther-Abraham actually speaking what they talk about. There's more information available in the form of tonality, etc.
Finally, I'll mention that there's lots of great Eckhart Tolle material on YouTube. I watched this video recently, and really liked it:
YouTube - Eckhart Tolle in the Living Luminaries movie * * *
MyEyeIsOpen, I wish you luck with your current task. This is a challenge that is here for you, and here to help you grow. Often unpleasant, often not very easy, when I ask myself why life would have us go through unpleasant things, I realise that, in part, I want experiences like this. I don't want life to be all roses and sunshine all the time. I want to be happy, sure, but I want to grow as well. And often that means we have to do unpleasant things, or even suffer for a period of time. But I find this suffering almost always transmutes your experience, acting as the fire that melts away parts of yourself that hold you back, leaving you with a greater sense of awareness and less resistance to your experience.
Take care, and be easy about all this. If this is something that you have to deal with, even if it is unpleasant, accepting it will make the journey a little easier--a little more pleasant.
Whatever you cannot enjoy doing, you can at least accept that this is what you have to do. Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.
– Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth