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.

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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

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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.

To get all of these videos and the ones that I’ve created before, on the End Screen will tell you how to access them.

‘Till then,

Keep wondering,

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From Abstract to Reality: The Four Steps In Between

From Abstract to Reality: The Four Steps In Between is the Introductory video pointing you to four distinct steps that move you from the awareness that a change could happen in your World of Work to the reality of that change happening. Are you ready to change your career. Do you know where to begin? You start by discovering the abstract, the Idea and move that Idea towards Reality, your new career. Between those two ther are four steps. This video introduces you to them.

From Abstract to Reality: Four Steps In Between Transcript

Are you ready to change your career. Do you know where to begin? You start by discovering the abstract, the Idea and move that Idea towards Reality, your new career. Between those two ther are four steps. This video introduces you to them.

From Abstract to Reality: The Four Steps In Between

Well Hello! Murray Comber here with another career chat.

Today we’re beginning another ‘Career Thought’ series which I’ve called,

From Abstract to Reality: The Four Steps In Between

Now this is a series where you’re going to begin to ‘Embrace the World of Possibility’, something that is needed for every career changer.

Let’s understand the book ends first. Abstract is one bookend and Reality is the other. Then we’ll look at the four steps.

Abstract

It comes from a root word in Latin meaning ‘pulled away or detached’ from something that is concrete. The idea is something has been separated from the physical reality. That in fact may have already happened to you because if you really don’t like your job your mind has been wandering elsewhere into something else. And if that’s the case, you’ve already begun the move from abstract to reality.

Reality

Is another word and it’s summed up in the first four letters… Real…R – E – A – L…Reality. It’s a world or state of things as they actually exist as opposed to the idealistic or the notional idea of something. It is concrete as opposed to something just in the mind.
Now in this introductory video between abstract and reality, I’m going to layout the four steps for you. And that’s where we’re going to be going for the next several videos. One video for each one.

This mini-series has to be thought of like a funnel. A Funnel goes like this. The top two, the number one and two on the top part of the funnel are the abstract. It moves to #3 on the bottom part. That’s going to be the real part of it; The Reality section.

So, let’s start with the top of the funnel shall we. The very top of the funnel is big picture. It’s called…

Wonder

• Big picture
• Demands no commitment
• Exploratory in nature meaning they can go wherever and whenever and however you want and
• It really there’s no parameters on it
• Anything flies

It’s simply, and it can be, a mental escape from your current picture that you’re in, your current reality. Just to get away. Just a little holiday from the difficulties and you may Wonder. If you’ve done that, you’ve already begun the process.

But Wonder is where #2 born and #2 is also abstract and it’s called…

Dreams

Still big picture, but I call them Targeted Wonders.

With wonder you’re looking at the big picture. With dreams you’re beginning to cherry pick things that you could dream about doing. And if that’s the case, you could have several dreams at this stage. And you’ll begin to play with those and begin to work them through What…

• Is possible
• May not possible
• Is a reality
• Isn’t a reality

And then that is where you will launch into #3 which moves into the reality area on the bottom of the funnel…

Vision

You leave the abstract behind and now you’re tracking towards reality. It’s a mental reality at this point. It’s not there yet but Ypu Can

• See it
• Feel it
• Sense it

There’s something deep inside that’s pulling you there. It is a mental framework of where you want to go. It shapes an endpoint for you and once you’ve defined an endpoint, that becomes the springboard for number 4 which is…

Mission

Now mission bridges between your vision and getting to your new reality. Your Mission is…

• Personal. It’s yours. You own it
• Actionable. It’s yours. You do it

And when you are on your mission, you are on the move towards something that is an ‘Identifiable Destination’.

So, let’s work backwards.

• If you’re on a Mission, that flows from Vision
• Vision is launched in Dreams and
• Dreams are birthed in Wonder

Do you see how it all fits together?

So, I encourage you to begin to…

• Wonder
• Dream out of the Wonder
• Have a Vision out of your Dream and then
• Get on your Mission to track you to your Reality

But you may need help with that

And if so, I’m available. Perhaps we can work together. You can look at my Website. You can look at my YouTube page.

If you want to keep up with all of these videos with the ones we’re doing now forward, and the ones that I’ve done in the past, I’d love to see you there. How to get there is on the end screen of this video.

In the meantime, next video is going to focus on one of the four. It is going to be focusing on Wonder. Let’s dig deeper into that.

So, we’ll see in a few days.

You have a great day and,

Thank you for letting me share with you today.

See you soon.

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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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Career Question – What Do YOU Do? 

Has someone asked you this Career Question – What do YOU do? or What do you do for a living? do you know how you would answer. A 2 or 3 word response falls short. A longer response tells them what you actually do but, that answer also goes a long way in helping you assess your World of Work. Here is what I mean…

Career Question – What do YOU do? is a commonly asked question. Do you know how to answer it? How do you feel when you have to answer it? Based on your answer, what could your next steps be.

Transcript: Career Question – What Do YOU Do ?

 Well Hello! Murray Comber here for another Career Chat.

Question. What do YOU do?

It’s not an uncommon question when your meeting someone. It’s a conversation starter, an icebreaker. It’s one of those questions that is asked, and it’s asked often.

Question is, how do you answer it? Is it a simple one or two word thing…

•  Real Estate
• Doctor
• Teacher
• Lawyer
• Retail…

Simple, Big Picture?

Well…OK more about that in a moment. In the meantime, my second question is this…

Whenever you’re asked, how do you feel about it?

Do you feel…

• Joyful
• Happy
• It puts a smile on your face and
• You could talk about it for a while,

Or is it the opposite…

• You’re sad
• You’re embarrassed
• You’re apologetic and
• You want to change the subject.

Let’s get back to how you would answer it.

I’m going to use myself as a model because I’d like you to do an exercise when you’re done this video that would be helpful for you.

Murray what do you do?

I could say, I’m a Career Consultant. Or I could say…

Do you know the people that are dissatisfied at work?

• They don’t like your job
• They don’t want to go in and
• They can’t wait to get home
• They don’t even know why they chose that career and
• If they could, they would start the career all over again doing something else.

Well I work with them by teaching them a very comprehensive Career Management System that once learned, can help them navigate their world of work.

Ultimately, the goal is…

• to create a more satisfying, fulfilling job experience
• not only in the immediate
• but from the point they learn it forward
• right till they retire and maybe even beyond.

Oh, I know that’s long and wordy but that’s what I’d like you to do because that really gives you a standard that once you get it on paper you can follow up with question #2

But how do I really FEEL about that?

And that’s important because if its negative, you need to deal with the issue.

I’d love to hear your story. Why don’t you post it in the comments below?

• The Title of your career
• Flesh it out and
• Tell me you’re happy or sad.

If you’re private, message me on this media

but in the meantime, we’re going to build on this theme in our next video in just a few days.

I’d love to hear from you. I’d like to hear your story.

In the meantime, you have a wonderful day and we look forward to talking to you again with another chat.

Bye for now!

There are other posts below but I recommend this one to help you on your career journey

How to Make a Career Shift When You Think You Can’t

Six Reasons Why Your World of Work Will Change After Covid

There are six reasons why your World of Work will change after Covid 19 Isolation is over with. Four are tied in with the Workplace itslef. One with the Clients and last but not least, YOU will change. This last one is the one I spend a fair amount of time on. What is being presented here is what I have been reading online about a couple of major themes that are being talked about on the internet.

6 Reasons Why Your World of Work Will Change After Covid

This video, 6 Reasons Why Your World of Work Will Change After Covid was impired by my Isolation time on the Internet look in places like LinkedIn and other Business Reviews. Honestly, I had come to these conclusions myself so when I was reading them, they only added fuel to my fire to get online and record and write up my thoughts.

Video #5 Script

Well hello! Murray Comber here with another career chat. This is the 5th of five videos on career questions.

When I started this series I used to words… Take and Make.

• Take the time to deal with your career if you are in isolation
• Make the time if you’re not in isolation to deal with them.

Why would I ask you to do that? Well as I’ve been looking on LinkedIn and other Internet sources, I have seen two themes pop up:

• Your world of work will not be the same when you go back. It will be different. More about that in the moment people.
• People is the second thing because they have been using this unsettled time to reconsider matters pertaining to their career. You know what? Things that have been buried for years, maybe decades, are beginning to surface and pull out and look at them. So, when it comes to working people, Let’s just dig a little deeper on those two things shall we.

Best Case Scenario is that when you return to work it’ll be normal or close to it but, probably not.

And I’ve come up with six reasons why any combination of which will change things there.

1. Your company will change
2. The way your company does business will change
3. Your workplace, the actual job you do will change and,
4. The management team, your leadership – there will be a shuffling and a changing there. Those four things will probably happen or could happen because of:

• publicly owned companies
• privately owned companies and
• entrepreneurs

that all want to get out of the red and quickly get into the black to recover from this isolation time.

However, there is one more, very critical part…

5. It’s your Clients. Yes, clients are going to change. They’re going to become more demanding and that’s going to put even more pressure on the world of work. But the last piece is really the one I want to talk to you about is this. It’s that…

6. YOU were going to change. Deep inside you, now that you thought about things and reflected that that you are going to be looking inside and saying, What can I do?
With those six things, any combination that means your world of work is going to be different whether it be

• Your work
• Your client or
• You.

Now for your own sake I want to encourage you to do two things I want you to reflect and I want you to re-evaluate.

• When you reflect you are using thought processes and logic to make sense of your world of work
• When you re-evaluate, you are using your values and your emotions to determine how you feel about your world of work

You need to do those things and if you do, it could be the best thing that ever happened to you.

Twenty-Three and a half years ago I went through that without an isolation virus. I just made the time and you know what? It is the best thing that I ever did.

Yours may take you back to your work. It may move you forward but you will appreciate that either way.

Now the five-video series that you have been looking is just only a starting point. You do not just move forward aimlessly because if you do that, you will lose.

So, you need a next step and that next step is a short eBook that I have written that is called

‘So, You Hate Your Job and Want to Shift Now: 6 Things to be Aware of Before You do Anything’

It sponsored by…

• Life Concepts, my company that does ‘one on one’, ‘face to face’ work; as well as
• CareerFitForYou.com that is the video-based career training.

How do you get it?

You go to the homepage of CareerFitForYou.com, click on the link that’s obvious there. It will be delivered to your inbox.

The URL for that I’m going to put on the end screen of this video but also…

If you want to see the all five videos also tell you where you can go to the very beginning of the playlist where you can see this 15 – 18 minutes series.

So, watch for more career videos – I’d love to teach you!

You have a wonderful day!

Rethinking Your Career? 

In this video we will briefly review Questions #1 & #2 then deal with Question #3, Are you rethinking about your career completely, and considering a Career Restart. We will look at two KEYS you must deal with to give you a beginning point. The first is exploring your career Whys. The second is exploring your Interests

Question #3 Script: Are You Rethinking Your Career?

Well hello again! Murray Comber with you. Another career chat.

This is the fourth of five videos where we’ve been dealing with some questions.

1. What do you like about your career and would like to keep and develop?
2. What do you not like about your career and would like to offload, get rid of, remove?

Those two questions are about realigning what you’re doing now. How can I make my job better? But what if those questions just don’t work for you? Then it’s not a realignment you’re thinking, it’s a re-evaluation which leads you to the third question.

#3 – Are you rethinking your Career completely? Are you in for a total restart?

Is that part of your thought process?

Let me ask first of all, when it comes to the job you’re working at now the job itself,
‘Is there a future in it? In other words, does it have a future in doing it?
And if it does can you last as long as it?

If you say no, then you have an issue.

Second question is,

What if your career does not have, that job does not have a future, it’s got an ending point, it’s going to become obsolete?

You’ve got the same problem. You still need to look for something different.
• So, what are you going to do next?
• When are you going to make the decision to do it? and here’s the most important question,
• Do you even know where to begin?
Let me give you a couple of things a couple of keys, okay.

The first one we’ve addressed to some degree but I’m going to go deeper into it.

Key #1 – You need to explore your WHYs.

I’m addicted to the whys of you in career satisfaction…
• You need to know why you like what you like
• You need to know why you don’t like what you don’t like. And,
You have to ask why up to 7 times to get rid of the superficial answers and get right to the core.
And once you get to the core that’s when you can really begin exploring your future career.

The second key

Key #2 – is exploring your Interests.

Your interests are your starting point because it is the number one determiner of career satisfaction.
The Problem with interests is that they’re limited to what you’ve been exposed to.
When you started your careers several, whatever number of years ago, you were younger. Less of the world you were exposed to. And the less you’re exposed to, the less interest you are made aware of. But as time progressed that you grew up in you matured and more of life was exposed to, your interests began to say…

• Oh I didn’t notice that one
• I didn’t notice that one
• Oh, this could be interesting,

and you may begin a midlife crisis on career shift. It is totally normal for you to say, Oh I wish I’d have known that younger but take the guts and do it now.

Now let’s wrap this up.

I want you to picture interests as a sphere. And inside that sphere of interests you are going to interject your world of what you like, your energizers and a lot of attention on that. You’re going to also put in there the things that you do not like, your energy drainers, not as much as the energizes, but you need to think about them through.

Once you take the capsule of interests with energizers and energy drainers, the likes and the don’t likes, you have a starting point. You are at the beginning of your right path and following that path could lead you somewhere in your career.

But, you’re probably going to need some help with that and if that’s the case feel free to reach out to me on this social media.

In the next video we’re going to wrap up this series with some encouraging words. It’ll be in a couple of days.

But if you’re seeing this for the first time, or have only seen one or two of the other videos, in the end screen I’m going to show you where you can get right to the beginning of the playlist where you can see all of these short videos to help you through your career issues.

So there’s my chat for you today.

Hope to see you in the next video and,

You have a wonderful day bye for now!

What Would You Like To Offload? 

In this video, I will be discussing a couple of approaches regarding handling tasks at work that you do not miss, like or enjoy that you would  like to offload. These things tend to be Energy Drainers…Stressors!  I will give you a couple of personal examples of this type of tthing in my life. If offloading or fixing is not possible solution, we will introcude what you will need to consider to deal with to resolve this matter.

Question #2 Script: What Do I need To Offload?

Well hello! Murray Comber with you. Another career chat.

A couple of videos ago I showed you an overview of three important career questions. Last video we went deeper into the first which was,

‘What are things you miss about your career in isolation, and what would you like to keep or perhaps get better in?’

Today it’s the opposite of that.

‘What are the things in your career that you do not miss and would like to offload?’

Because the things you want to offload, you usually don’t do well, and they became energy drainers for you.

There are only a couple of things you have to discuss. The first question you have to ask yourself is…

• Can I offload it?
• If I can offload it…
• How do I do that
• Who was the person that I could offload it to? The other thing is that…
• What would the approval process for changing that job description be?

Important questions. But if that shuts down, then the other thing you have to consider is…

If I can’t offload it, how I’m going to solve the issue?

• Do I need a different approach?
• Where do I learn a different approach?
• Where do I need to learn what those approaches are?
• Maybe the answer for you would be in technology, and that could ease up your load for you.

But if you can’t do either of those then you’re still going to be left with these energy drainers that are going to be frustrating you in your job.

Let me give you a couple of personal examples.

First of all, I Do Not Like Marketing Typically

I don’t mind it ‘one on one’, but you know it’s a little more difficult whether it be online or offline to do it to the masses of people. That’s a stressor for me. And therefore, I’m probably either going to have to learn to do it or I’m going to have to find somebody to do it for me.

Here’s Another One…Bookkeeping

No, I’m not an accountant. Since the computer has come out with software that can help with the financials, I have learned to do that. But years ago, when I had to do ledger and hard copy, it was a stressor, it was an energy drainer for me. But technology has made it quite a joy.

Now if you can’t find somebody to offload it to and you can’t find a solution to your problem, then that means…

• Within your company there’s no movement, there’s nothing within.
• You have to make the change without.
• You have to go outside of your company within yourself to figure out what you’re going to do.

And that is going to be what the next question is about.

‘Do you need to consider some kind of a shift in your career?’

So, look for that video in the next couple of days.

In the meantime, if you would like to talk, reach out to me through this media. Perhaps we can work together.

You have a wonderful day.