Young Careers - Action Plan

What’s Your Big Movie Like?

It doesn’t matter where you are in your working life; you may be building expertise in school still, you may be out in the working world. Here’s the start to get you focused; your first assignment. Make it fun because you want to set the mood and tenor and components for the life you want for yourself. This assignment gives you the focus, the details, the picture of where you want to go and who you want to be. In our imaginations all things are possible, so, let it fly, kid; do it in grand style. But do it. If you don’t, there’s not much point in moving on. You’ll have no place to head for, no target to hit. You’ll be a ship without a port to sail to, a traveler without a destination to aim for. The events that happen in your life, that define your life, will be accidents. You’ll be a supporting actor in someone else’s life, not the star.

Here’s what you do. You must write it out in detail and sketch it on a large poster paper even if you’re not a great artist. You can do it with computer graphics or video media, any way that will show and say how you want your life to be. You must keep it private and let your imagination run far and true. If you think other people are watching and judging over your shoulder, you won’t be honest with yourself. Imagine – and reproduce in writing and drawing or more modern media – a performance of the life you’d love to have if there were no restrictions at all. Tune your imagination to wide-screen, Technicolor, surround-sound, with a cast of thousands or, at least, everyone or kind of person you want in your life as it develops. All the details: what kind of people are your friends, where are the places your life takes place? What is your work like, your family like, your part of the world? What are you like and how do you feel about all this? What will your house look like, your cars, your clothes, your other stuff? See all the things that make you happy and proud of yourself. Imagine all this going on all over a giant motion picture screen only you can see and hear, showing you everyone and everything you want in your life. Think about that and sleep on it. Then think about it again and write it down and draw it, produce your media or computer version so you remember all the details.

Save it where you can look at it often….because the things you see there make you happy and proud of yourself. This is a portrait of your life the way you want your life to be. It doesn’t have to done perfectly, just the best you can is good. This is where we start.

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Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is everything, it is the preview of our life’s coming attractions.”

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