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Creating Income in the new world. Where do we go from here? Part 2

Posted by Larry Pollock on Aug 4, 2010 in Entrepreneur | 2 comments

A few days ago I started this line of thought. It will probably continue and come back around in my posts as it is an ever evolving question and solution.

If jobs are not coming back, like call center jobs, manufacturing jobs and many more thing, what are our options? Obviously there are many people who will find a job working for someone else. Restaurants still need cooks, bottle washers and wait people. There are still factories here that need positions filled. Stores need stocking, mail needs delivering and parks still need cleaning. As the population continues to grow more options are needed. Not all will have college degrees will get jobs in their chosen field.

I mentioned in Part 1 that we need to stop listening to the nay sayers and folks who thrive on stirring the pot to get folks riled up. This is great for the radio or TV show ratings but truly does nothing to contribute to the solution. Nor does it foster a creative and constructive conversation toward solutions. It’s time to step back and throw away what we think we know. Much is it was taught to us by other who learned if during a different time in history. Factor in that most folks don’t like change and you have a recipe for the current situation many people find themselves in. They are frozen, unsure of what to do next, not trusting of their own sense of purpose and waiting for someone to come along and tell them what to do. And that’s it, being told what to do. Remember, we were all taught to go to school, get to College, get a degree, automatically find a good job and be told what to do for the next 40 years. Habits are often hard to break and this is one that a number of generations need to unload.

It’s obvious that we need to re-train ourselves, teach ourselves new tricks. When so many people are in survival and just making it through the day, how do we obtain these new skills?

First, it’s good to understand how change happens for most people. They don’t change or move from their perceived place of comfort until it becomes more uncomfortable than the unknown space they need to move into. Change by discomfort. New beginnings by force. Why wait until you get backed into a corner to start moving toward new and greener pastures? Certainly it would be less of a traumatic situation if you where proactive!

Bear Grylls

I was on a webinar with Bear Grylls, the Man vs Wild guy on TV. The topic was “Essentials for Everyday Survival“.  Now, I don’t have cable or satellite TV hooked up. Faith and I chose to not participate in that time waster 15 years ago. But I do see things while traveling and staying in hotel rooms. Bear intrigued me. I grew up hiking, backpacking and studied survival skills. I wanted to hear what he had to say about life lessons learned by experiencing the things he does. He broke his back many years ago and it took 18 months in a military hospital to heal. Just a few years later he climbed Mt. Everest!

In essence what Bear has to say said was, he is an ordinary family man. He learned that by continuing to make decisions and moving forward he could accomplish his goals. To excel at something does not mean you need to be the smartest, most well educated, or strongest person. You only need to have the willingness to make decisions, act on them and keep moving. Did he make mistakes on his program? Yes he said, lots. But you simply make a new one and keep moving. You don’t get out of the jungle you’re in by moping about, deriding yourself for making a bad choice. No, you buck up, reset, choose again and put one foot in front of the next. When 150 people tried out to enter the British Special Forces Bear had a vision of himself achieving his goal of being accepted while standing in a pressed uniform, polished shoes and a clean shave. The reality was, after all the time spend going through the trials with the 150 others, he found himself in a room with 3 others. They were muddy, had blood on their faces, where sweaty and tired. The officer who came in the door said he had found the ones he needed because he knew the when asked they would give just 5% more than anyone else. That 5% would make the difference.

Are you willing to step out of your comfort and give just 5% more? Is your dream and goal large enough to get you to do things that others won’t?

On Friday I finally get to answering the original question. I will post some of the ways we can participate in a global market, economy and the new Tribes. Part 3 should be interesting. Please come back and join in the conversation and post comments.

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