How to Track Your Right Career - By Jody Gothard and Cardell Phillips Are you lost in
wilderness when it comes to choosing a career? Once, we knew way. As children, we played at different roles, but some became our favorites. Those favorites hinted at our gifts. They pointed way to our exciting futures as entrepreneurs, dancers or astronauts. We did what was fun, and, in process, we began to find and follow our paths.As young adults, however, our paths began to fade under thickets of obstacles: other people's expectations, poor self-esteem and /or lack of faith. But, good news is that, for each of us, path is still out there. A cover of tangled weeds may hide its course, but it's still there.
A few tracking lessons can put you back in hunt. An expert tracker can follow a trail that's been cold for days, months, or even years. Trackers like this can track over any terrain, under all kinds of weather, and even in dark of night. Tracking, however, is not just about following a set of prints in dirt.
The physical skill of observation constitutes only about 10% of what it takes to be a good tracker. The other 90% consists of awareness and intuition. Here's how you can apply tracking techniques to your career hunt.
OBSERVATION
The first step a would-be tracker takes is to develop his or her powers of observation to a razor-sharp edge. Called "eye of tracker," it's ability to discern a large amount of information from environment with a glance.
Students spend years engaged in study and first - hand observation, or "dirt time" as it's called, to gain an intimate knowledge of natural environment and habits of animals. For instance, when trackers wants to see animals, they know where to look for them. They'll look in areas such as on edges of forests and fields, at times of transition like twilight, or right before or after a storm.
In process of mastering facts, tracker cultivates "the eye of tracker," a questioning awareness that sees beyond obvious. They constantly ask themselves, "What happened here?" and "What does this mean?"
Transition For Careers
After you find a career that excites you, do some "dirt time." Educate yourself about skills you'll need, where industry congregates, and mental states of people who work in field.
Next, get some practical experience. Take a class, find a mentor, or work in field on a part-time basis. Find out what you're getting into before you commit.
If you're still interested in field after you've done your research, you'll find time it takes to build a new career. Maybe you'll have to go back to school and survive on less money for awhile. You might have to make that sacrifice, but you'll feel excited and have a sense of accomplishment.
Once you have clarity, you're halfway there. After that, your mind starts looking for ways to help you reach your goals, so watch for signs.
AWARENESS
Trackers often find themselves in dangerous environments, and when they do, they use everything they have in order to survive. To enhance their chances for survival, they continually develop their powers of observation, which leads them to ever-deeper levels of awareness of their environment.
In practice, they'll focus on details like tracks, but they stay aware of sounds, colors, shapes, and smells of environment at same time. This technique is known by many names such as "peak awareness," "soft-focus" and "splatter vision." It's like looking through a camera with a wide-angle lens attached.
