If you know how to change your future is open
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| John S Veitch |
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| The Network Ambassador |
Each of us can have an open future, but unless we recognize that "my biggest problem is me" we are unlikely to succeed.
So what do I need to do with "me" to have an open future? Several things, that almost nobody does. So why is that?
People are misinformed, deliberately misinformed, by the education system, by the news media and by all sorts of peer pressures. We have ALL been indoctrinated.
The first task for any human being is to learn from your family, your society and it's traditions. This allows you to become a member.
Building your OWN resource kit
In an ideal world long before you are 40, you'll recognize that somehow you need to build yourself a means of continuous renewal. Here's what you need:
The best formal education you can get.
Build your own grab-bag of ideas. Keep systematic records from places where you've worked.
Maintain a place to accumulate your collected learning. Perhaps in a journal of interest.
Extend your personal face to face network of friends and colleagues.
Join an online social network, partly friends and colleagues but mostly a searchable index of weak connections to a few thousand people you "know" vaguely.
Membership of two or more professional networks, probably online, and perhaps acting as a community of practice.
Membership of several discussion networks, online, places where the sort of things you are interested in are openly discussed by a world wide membership.
Membership of a small closed, mastermind circle, probably online.
You'll have your own home and the basic tools of your profession available.
You'll have some access to financial resources of your own.
If you are a late starter, that's OK, in ten years you'll still be ten years ahead of the guy who didn't bother.
You need your OWN resources, you can't borrow or buy those, you have to build them. Change the options of the person who you intend to become.
Michael P. Farrell and Stanley D. Rosenberg (1981) reported that people in the later part of adult life fall into four groups of roughly equal size.
The angry and disillusioned, the falsely developed, the isolated dreamers and those who are overcoming and growing.
Dr Rosalie Bartell explains that the world changes on us, but the ideas our heads don't change as readily.
Dr Bartell says, "Our understanding and our behaviour can only change when we are ready in our minds."
Pedler, Bargoyne and Boydell, tell us that learning is increased if we choose to discuss our ideas with someone else. This take time and effort.
In the process of sharing your views you reinforce what you know, you make friends, and you learn things from other people's responses.
First you try to achieve practical things. In the process you learn some things about success or failure and often puzzles appear. Think about it.
Make a written record in your journal of interest, or comment on a social network, or write a review for planning purposes. Make a long lasting written record.
Now talk to someone about it. Share what you are thinking with some of your social network. Ask a question in a forum. Share in your community of practice.
You need to create an innovative departure from your previous training. Armed with your accumulated learning, your journal, and your networks, you are well placed to open new territory.
Opportunity comes to those who are already prepared, when readiness meets chance: so are you ready?
At Open Future Limited we plan to offer you the tools that make the journey to an open future possible.
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