From Abstract to Reality: Step Four- MISSION

From Abstract to Reality: Step 4 – Career Mission. It is first described, then put in context of the first 3 Steps followed by a look at 3 Words that explain the Nature of Career Mission.

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From Abstract to Reality: Step 4 – Career Mission. It is first described, then put in context of the first 3 Steps followed by a look at 3 Words that explain the Nature of Career Mission.

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Well Hello! Murray Comber here again with another career chat Today, From Abstract to Reality: The Four Steps in Between.

We’re talking about Step #4 which is Mission.
Now Have you ever heard anyone say something like this…

“Now there is a man on a mission or,
There is a woman on a mission”

What Do They Mean?

It means its about a person who is fiercely determined to get what they want. It Implies…

• Actionable
• Movement

It is no longer in that person’s head space. It is clearly visible and obvious to them and they’re pursuing it. That’s what Step 4: Mission is all about.

Let’s Position That For You

In the context of the overall steps shall we. Let’s review the abstract to reality process

Abstract is the state of nothingness regarding your career. There is no…

• Direction
• Idea
• You don’t even know what you’re going to do.
• And if you’re in that place then you need to begin to wonder because…

Wonder Illuminates

Its like going out and seeing bright stars in the night Sky. Its for your career parallel on that searching for things in the massive area of careers that begin to shine like stars.

“What can I do? What can I do?”

And things will pop up and you will bring attention to them.  And when you do that, those things become dreams and

Dreams Anticipate

With several possibilities in mind that you have clearly identified, you narrow them down and you prioritize them. Hopefully you’ve got more than one, but you have two or three you can choose from. And once you are there you move from…

Dream to Mission

The difference is that Vision is a Dream with a Plan. You have created a plan of action in order to pursue it and get you there.

Once you have your dream and a plan connected to it that’s where mission steps in. Mission Activates so,

• Wonder Illuminates
• Dreams Anticipate
• Vision Motivates
• Mission Activates

With a plan in place, you take action and begin to make the vision happen. Then you end up with your reality, this state of arrival at your new career, a new direction and a fresh start.

So, With This Word Mission, What Is The Nature Of It?

Well the first thing we’ve already talked about a fair amount.

Mission is Active

Where vision is the dream with the plan, mission is activating the vision’s plan. You’ve got steps to follow. There’s stages that you can go through.

And that leads to the second aspect of understanding Mission’s nature…

Mission is Measurable

With the plan’s components naturally being steps and stages, you can measure how many of them you’ve accomplished and how much is left to go. And you know really where you’re on the continuum between the beginning and the end of that career transition journey; where you’re at. Now the third part of this is really important…

Mission is Changeable

During the process of your journey you may discover tweaks that bring more clarity to your original vision. And it sends you down a slightly different path that is even better than original.

I have that happen quite often, especially when a person heads off to College or University. When they get there, their eyes are open to similar things in the field that are more appropriate and more targeted than the original direction that got them into that place in the first place. So, they’re in the right arena, they’re just changing sections. And that’s fine. You can do that.

However, a little bit more serious than that, you may also discover going down that path that you’re following, that it just isn’t living up to the original vision that you had thought. The thing that you had dreamed about. Though you’ve started the steps and are going down, there’s just something that isn’t resonating. And if that’s the case, you may have to restart the journey with your second or third vision alternative. What that means is that you’ve got to go back to your dream and choose your second or third dream then put up a plan of action to that and begin the mission all over again.

I know that sounds like it’s a little bit troubling but, the better idea is to get you into the careers that you want not just any career but the one that is specific to you. And if that’s the case then a restart is better than pursuing and ending up where you don’t want to be. Once you’ve completed all your steps, you’re there your mission is complete, and you will either have launched your career, or you’ll be in preparation for it. But…

That’s the overall process from going from Abstract to your New Reality.

• Are you there?
• Have you been there?
• Are you waffling in that journey?

Well I Can Probably Help You With That

Connect with me here in this media or any other site you may find me. We can chat, have a talk see if we can work together.

If you want to review or repeat and see any of the other videos in this series the “From Abstract to Reality” series, your access point to that will be on the end screen of this video in just a few seconds.

The Next Video

We’re going to wrap it up with a final video on this Abstract to Reality series by giving you a high fly over giving you a visual look of exactly what is going to be going on and we’ll wrap this series up.

So, we’ll see you then.

You have a great day.

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From Abstract to Reality: Step Three – Vision

From Abstract to Reality: Step 3 – Career Vision There is a major difference between a Dream and a Vision. In this video, using my own story, I will put Vision in context with the other Steps in the Series and specifically identify what Vision actually is.

From Abstract to Reality: Step Two- DREAMS Transcript

From Abstract to Reality: Step 3 – Career Vision There is a major difference between a Dream and a Vision. In this video, using my own story, I will put Vision in context with the other Steps in the Series and specifically identify what Vision actually is.

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Well Hello! Murray Comber here again with another career chat.

Today, ‘From Abstract to Reality: Step Three – Career Vision’.

In terms of your career, are you feeling internally empty? If so, your direction is probably in confusion, lacking substance, perhaps even leaving you with a sense of inner void. If that’s the case, that’s what I mean by the ‘Career Abstract’ and that is where the series begins…From Abstract to Reality with Four Steps in Between.

Those steps we talked about…

#1 was Wonder

Wonder ‘Illuminates’ like bright shining stars in the dark sky, each one of the possible opportunities you see for a career is a bright shining star that glows and you pick up on it.

Step #2

Those things that you pick up become dreams and dreams ‘Anticipate’, they create anticipation when you latch onto the brightest possibilities that you identify. This leads us to today’s lesson.

Step #3 – Vision

Vision ‘Motivates’. When you explore and create a plan and pursue one or more of those potential careers, you’re in the visionary process.

Metaphorically Speaking

Well wonder is the bridge between ‘Abstract & Dreams’. Similarly dreams are the bridge between ‘Wonder & Vision’. So then what is career vision? Let me illustrate by using my own personal story.
I remember when I was in the process of career counseling. I was in the wondering stage grasping for some direction and out of that vast cosmos of wonder I would think of the target a few of the bright stars, those dreams and here are few as an example

1. Given my interest in both music and working with my hands and tools, out of my world of wonder, Piano Rebuilding and Tuning became one of my dreams. I could have been very comfortable with that but, that one didn’t stick.
2. Also, with my experiences of pastor with marriage counseling and working with many marriages and families, I knew that finances were a major issue in those relationships. Marriage Counseling built on a Financial Platform was another dream that I had. And I could have really enjoyed that one. Helping people get through; understand their finances but, that didn’t stick either.
3. Neither of those dreams were my brightest star but, with my passion when we identified it for what people did with their lives combined with my long-term, since a teenager, interest in assessments, sitting with my career counsellor, knowing what she was doing, Career Counseling captivated me. It was a dream that I could latch onto. Something that had substance and frankly it blew past the others and within months I was in formal training.

So, my dream…between the dream and the formal training was this visionary process.

From Dreams to Visions. What’s that?

Out of my wonder I identified several doable dreams. One of those dreams became a vision. It became a vision when I when I created the path and make it a reality. You see, a vision involves a plan of steps that motivates you to take your dream from where you are to where you eventually want it to take you…where you want to be.
Mine involved several steps both practical and psychological.

Here are a few of my Practical Ones.

 My Family

Getting my family on board. I had a wife and two children. I wanted to make sure that they were on this journey with me.

The Application

To go to college to be conceptually approved, all the paperwork. Then finally…

The Interview

The process of formal acceptance where I had to sit in front of people. And they talked to me about what I would be doing as a career consultant. Then once approved, because I was accepted…

The Financial Arrangements

It had to be paid for somehow. And there was something called

Accommodation

You see the college I was going to was two hours away from home and required four days a week away from my family. And so I had to arrange for the accommodation and the transportation back and forth.

Now let’s look at a couple of Psychological Ones.

Personal Realignment

Dealing with the concept of a career shift. For anyone its huge. it was with me. Also just…

Raw Emotion

From me, mine was the fear of returning to school as an adult, and that really affected me emotionally

Because you see, when Inner Values caused me to move away from what I was doing, I left the reality of the familiar into nothingness. I didn’t know what I was going to be doing.

And that was ‘My Abstract’.

And when that happened, with the help of a career counselor…

• We walked through the overwhelming vastness of wonder then,
• She helped me birth the dream that I identified then,
• Together we shape the vision.

We shaped the vision…the road map to follow, to allow my new life to unfold.

What then is vision?

Where…

• Wonder Illuminates
• Dreams Anticipate
• Vision Motivates

A Vision is a Dream into which you design a plan of attack to make your Dream actually happen.

• Once you start on that journey
• Once you begin to activate the plan
• It leaves vision and becomes your next step…

MISSION

What does a Mission do?

A Mission ‘Activates’ and

That’s the final step…

Step #4 in the Abstract to Reality Series.

We’re going to be dealing with Step 4 in the next video. I hope to see you there.

Hopefully, my story will help you to create yours; create some anticipation motivation within you.

Do you want to catch all of these videos? If you haven’t seen the Abstract to Reality series, you’ll be able to catch where to see those on the end screen of this video in just a few seconds.

I invite you to join me also join me in the next video…Step #4, Mission

Talk to you again soon.

Have a great day.

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From Abstract to Reality: Step 2 – Dreams

From Abstract to Reality: Step 2 – Career Dreams. Are You “Living the Dream”?, If not, this video will weave you through the tapestry of Notable Men and Women who taught us much of what we need to know about fulfilling our dreams

From Abstract to Reality: Step Two- DREAMS Transcript

From Abstract to Reality: Step 2 – Career Dreams. Are You “Living the Dream”?, If not, this video will weave you through the tapestry of Notable Men and Women who taught us much of what we need to know about fulfilling our dreams

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Well Hello! Murray Comber here.Well Hello! Murray Comber here.

In today’s video, From Abstract to Reality: Step Two – Career Dreams.

Like the last video wonder, dreams are part of the abstract on the way to reality. Wonder is where dreams are born. And no, I’m not talking about the kind of dreams you have while sleeping.

Let me illustrate

Have you ever asked the question, How’s life? And they give you this three-word response, “Living the Dream!” Basically means…

• Doing what they want to do
• Living the type of life that they want to live, without regrets
• Achieving all their goals
• Enjoying the fruits of the labor

Sounds nice doesn’t it.

The implication of the statement is. That happens when…

• One creates a dream scenario
• Pursues it, and
• Eventually accomplishes it

Now let me weave a few quotes together from some very notable people, names that you will probably know, and create a tapestry about how we can pursue our dreams.The first one is simply this,

You’ve Got to Do it, You Got to Do Dreams

Canadian humorous Stephen Leacock said this

“It may be that those who do the most, dream the most.”

So, if you want to do more, dream more. And when you have a dream, our next point is…

Dreams Need to Simply Start

Social Activist Martin Luther King who was most known for his ‘I have a dream’ speech, also said…

“You don’t need to see the whole staircase; you just need to take the first step.”

And yet how often are we to, once we have a dream, take that first step. He encourages to do so. Because you never know. It could end up being what the Third Point is…

World Changing Dreams

And if it doesn’t change the world at large, it’ll certainly change your world, which is most important.

I’m sure King was inspired by underground railway conductor, Harriet Tubman who, despite of all the odds on her very, very difficult job regarding living her dream said this…

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach the stars to change the world. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Do you believe in the beauty of your dreams? Well, Sometimes it…

Takes a Little Bit of Stick-to-itive-ness, Tenacity, to Do it.

Because dreams come in stages and the stages of dreams were talked about by Hollywood actor Christopher Reeve known for his role as Superman. But also, that he had a horse accident and became a quadriplegic. And he put it this way…

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable and then, when we summon the will, then soon, they become inevitable.

That’s called stick-to-itive-ness, yes, stamina and tenacity. And if you pursue your dreams that way our next point is that…

Dreaming Leaves You with No Regrets

You probably don’t know the name Samuel Langholm Clements, but he is better known by his pen name, this author and humorist, Mark Twain. He had some tremendous advice…

Twenty years from now you’ll be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones that you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream and Discover.

Yes, dreaming is about exploring and discovering.

The only thing that can really get in the way of that is,

Dreams Biggest Obstacle

The American football quarterback, Tom Brady, put it simply this way…

The only thing that will stop you from the fulfilling your dreams, is you

You!

Do you have a dream?

If yes, follow the advice of these notable people. If no, then listen to my last video, Step 2 on ‘Wonder’ and keep wondering and keep wondering until you discover a dream or two that you can latch onto.

And once you find that dream, then follow the advice of Napoleon Hill who said…

Don’t wait! The time will never be just right.

Do you have a dream? Are you procrastinating? Are you waiting for the right time? Don’t!

Simply start and recognize that you can see down the road the fulfillment of your dreams if you’ll put some action to them.

Our next Abstract to Reality video will be on Step #3 where will talk about ‘Vision’.

If you haven’t seen the former videos and would like to learn about the ones on this theme and topic and others that are coming down the pipe, then all you have to do is watch the end screen and I’ll point you to where you can get access to those.

So, you have a great day!

We’ll see you again soon,

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From Abstract to Reality: The Four Steps In Between

From Abstract to Reality: Step One – WONDER. It is where your Career Search Should Begin. Wonder is a Big Picture, Abstract Concept that is the Birthplace of our Dreams. History gives us some Key Examples on how this impacted the careers of others

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From Abstraact to Reality: Step One – Wonder. It is where your Career Search Should Begin. Wonder is a Big Picture, Abstract Concept that is the Birthplace of our Dreams. History gives us some Key Examples on how this impacted the careers of others.

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Hello! Murray Comber here with another career chat.

Our current series is about..

From Abstract to Reality: The Four Steps In Between.

We’ve already introduced it in the last video. Today,

Step Number One is about WONDER

Wonder isn’t an extremely used word. Children certainly don’t say it, but they live it…because wonder is their world.

Because of that, adults tend to not use it, only when needed…Maybe! And due to that ‘seemingly juvenile thought process’, adults tend to put it on the backburner. But if so, and when it comes to your career, your losing out.

How? Well let’s look and learn. First of all…

#1. Wonder is an Emotion

I found that somewhat surprising.

An 18th century Scottish philosopher by the name of Adam Smith…he defined it as an emotion. Let me simplify his Old English statement.

Wonder arises when you see or experience something new. There is no mental reference point therefore, it is incredibly unique…very intriguing. This captivates us. This creates a physical and emotional response you can’t let go of, or as Smith said, “A suspension of breath or a swelling of the heart”.

We must use the response by exploring what is uniquely and incredibly wonderful within the World of Work. That which intrigues and captivates is far beyond which would be ‘Our Norm’.

Don’t be limited by the ‘What Is’, when you can allow wonder to create the ‘What Could Be’s. Now…

#2. Wonder Should Bring Out Your Inner Child

• Not Childish. That’s a maturity but,
• We’re talking about Childlike, which is an, Unassuming Belief That Something Can Be Real.Walt Disney did it with his movies, and Disneyland and Disney World. You know…

‘When You Wish Upon a Star, How You WONDER’, or…

Sir James Barry’s theatrical presentations which you know of as Peter Pan or Finding Neverland or Tinker Bell. These appeal to OUR…

• Inner child…
• World of wonder
• World of dreams and

Some may not be too real, but a lot of them are more than real.

It certainly worked for them. The third is…

#3. Wonder Draws No Conclusions

It is a source. But it can put you on the ‘Path of Pursuit’ which may have a Conclusion or an Endpoint.

• Disney for example with all his works…it launched an entirely new era of 1928 and after…Cinematography.
• Out of Sir James Barrie’s world of Peter Pan, emerged something brand new in 1908 theater that was appealing then, and quite frankly still is now.

You see wonder was their world, not someone else’s. The doubt of others didn’t stop their pursuit. Similarly, and point number four…

#4. Wonder is Your World, Not Someone Else’s

Therefore, you have no need to explain it.

It creates your path to pursue.

People may question but you won’t stop because for you it is incredibly believable. So how does this translate into your career? Well…

Two Examples

An 18th century one would be,

Thomas Edison, whose high school teacher said

‘He was too stupid to learn anything’.

What an insult. But he wondered…

• What it would be like for electricity to be used to light houses and streets instead of gas. And after 3000 failures, in 1878, he invented the incandescent light bulb. It changed his world…and ours.

In the 20th century, nowadays…

Elon Musk, Who wondered

• If things could be purchased on the Internet online? So, he created x.com. He ended up selling it to eBay, and that’s now called PayPal
• If environmentally friendly, battery powered cars could be on our roads. And with all his new innovative technology, created the vehicle, Tesla, and…
• He also wondered if ordinary people could go into outer space. And he’s currently working on that in the Space X program.

You see these are people…changing the world. Perhaps that big is reserved for a few. But…

Wonder and Your World of Work

That’s about changing Your…

• Work
• World and
• Your life

All for the better

Have You Done Any Wondering in Your Life?

Well comment below. I’d love to hear about it.

In the meantime, in our next video, we’re moving from Step One, WONDER to Step Two, YOUR DREAMS.

I want to see you there.

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‘Till then,

Keep wondering,

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Career Question: What Do You Do – Next Step

Career Question – Next Step is the follow up video to the question What do YOU do. Do you know how you would answer. This follow up to the last What Do YOU Do video reviewing Question 1 extends it by presenting Question 2, the follow up challenge. Both of these are designed to help you reconsider your career whether you like it or not. 

Career Question:  What Do YOU Do – NEXT STEP Transcript

This Video is a follow up the the last What Do YOU Do video reviewing Question 1 and presenting Question 2, the follow up challenge. Both of these are designed to help you reconsider your career whether you like it or not.

Well Hello! Murray Comber here with another Career Chat.

Last video I asked a question and I gave an extensive answer. We’re building on that. But whether you’ve seen it or not, you can still move forward with this by asking yourself the
question…

Right now, what do you do?

I’m not talking about a short answer, one or two words like…

• Teacher
• Doctor, I work in
• Retail
• Real Estate
• Factory Worker

I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about delving down and explaining exactly what you do on your job. I think it’s important that you…

• Write that in detail on paper
• Ponder it
• Think about it

And put it on paper so that when you’re done you can say…

• Well I’m totally happy with that
• I’m content or
• You may know an idea where to make some adjustments.

But, if you don’t like it then you definitely need to move on to the second question.

But whether we move on to the second question because you don’t like your job or

Whether you do like your job but would like to open the door to something different in the future, here’s the question…

What would you REALLY like to do?

Can you answer that? Is there anything that’s brewing in your heart, your mind that you could write down and say I could do this job and explain what you mean by that.

Then once you’ve done it ask yourself this question…

• Is that realistically possible?
• If it is, what’s holding you back?
• If there’s nothing holding you back, then
• What are you going to do about it and,
• What is your plan?

On the other hand if you say, asking that question, what I really would like to do

• I have no idea
• I do not know what to do

then you don’t even know the alternatives, then

There’s a Very Strong Possibility you Don’t Even Know Where to Begin

• So, whether you like your job but would like to explore the future options, or
• Whether you don’t like your job and need to explore future options

Perhaps I could help you with that. So you can just

• Reach out
• PM me
• Let’s talk
• Let’s see where it goes.

Leave a comment that’s always appreciated. But even better…

If you know someone

that’s dealing with the thing that I’ve been talking about today, forward them this link. It could be a ‘Gamechanger’ for them.

In the meantime, you have a great day.

There will be another career chat soon with the next few days.

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