How To Change Career When You're Totally Confused- 4 Tips To Successful Career Change (part 2), Career Near Me

By Natasha Stanley.

And there are a few that apply beautifully to career change, too.
1. Agree
In improvised theatre, the players create the scenes and the action spontaneously; their script and lines are developed in the moment. They base their actions and the direction of the scene on the suggestions of their fellow actors.
Perhaps one takes the initiative to open the scene with the first line, including the suggestion that they're in Venice:
"Oh, how beautiful! Look at the gondolas!"
The only way the scene is going to move forward smoothly at this point is if the other actors now agree with that suggestion, and begin to create a scene based in Venice, too. If one suddenly disagrees with the suggestion...
"That's not a gondola; it's an elephant!"
...the scene will break down pretty quickly.
Agreement – or at least giving a suggestion or an idea the chance to see the light of day for a moment – is vital for a scene to progress.
Now consider this in terms of your career change. How much does the word 'yes' feature in your career-change conversations with yourself?
I remember thoughts tentatively poking their heads around the edge of my consciousness during my career change.
"Maybe… what if you could do something related to your own experience of changing careers?"
And almost before those ideas were even fully formed in my mind, I'd slam them into oblivion.
"Who's going to take you seriously? Who do you think you are? You can't make a living from that. That's not a gondola…"
How many suggestions, ideas, or opportunities have you said no to, even before you allowed them to bubble up in your mind?
And are you still wondering why you're not making any progress?
Of course, in life, you're not going to agree with everything that everyone says. And not every idea or suggestion is a good one. But by saying yes – even simply considering the possibility that there might be something useful in that idea or that opportunity – you come from an open-minded place.
You make space in your life and your consciousness for pleasant surprises. Career change can be full of pleasant surprises, if you'll only give them a chance to show up.
Say yes. Give your ideas a chance to speak to you. Give other people a chance to help you.
Stop blocking your own progress along that slippery road.
This week, catch yourself every time you discount or say "no" to an idea or an opportunity. Just watch how often it happens, and then wonder: what could become available to me if I just said "yes"?

2. Agree AND.
It's not enough just to agree with a statement in improvisation. You have to build on it, too.
If your partner says: "Wow, it's so busy in here!" and your only response is: "Yeah.." the sketch is stuck. But if you add to what they've created – "Yeah… and isn't it strange that everyone's wearing red hats?" – the momentum is maintained.
In life, and in career change, the phrase "Yes, and…" brings your mind into the realm of creating new ideas and possibilities.
The next time someone (including yourself) makes a suggestion regarding your career change, test this out. See how far you can go with a conversation where every sentence begins with "Yes, and…"
It might go something like this:
"I love being outdoors."
"Yes, and I'd love to get paid to spend time outdoors."
"Yes, me too, and I know a lot of other people would love to spend more time outdoors, too."
"Yes, and they often don't because they don't want to spend the time planning where to go and what to do once they get there."
"Yes, and I know a lot of great places to go hiking just outside the city."
"Yes, and I wonder if people who feel that way – maybe busy City types – would pay for someone (maybe me) to organise group hikes near London?"
"Yes... and I know a few of those types of people, and I think my friend does, too, and I wonder if I could ask them if that's something they'd be interested in?"
Notice how far you've got down that slippery street, just in that one conversation.
And then imagine how that conversation would usually go:
"I love being outdoors."
"Yep."
(...tumbleweed.)
Practise saying "yes, and" as much as possible this week. Recruit a friend to play this game with you, and dive into every statement you can make about your career change. See where it takes you (and let me know in the comments!).

3. Make statements.
It's really, really hard to move a scene forward when there's nothing going on but the asking of questions. There's no action; nobody's sure what's going on; nobody's brave enough to commit to anything; and the audience is getting bored pretty fast.
When presented with a problem in improvisation, actors must make statements to make progress (even if it's in an unexpected or weird direction – see the next point for more on this).
Whatever the problem, be a part of the solution. Raising questions and railing against obstacles doesn't move you forward. Imagine: the curtain rises…
Actor 1: Where are we?
Actor 2: I don't know; I have no idea! How did we get here?
Actor 1: This is awful! What are we going to do?
Actor 2: Why can't you figure this out? You're supposed to be able to figure this out!
Actor 1: I'm so stupid! Why am I so stupid?!
Does that scene sound a little familiar? A little like the inside of your head recently, perhaps?
Any statement, anything you know, is a clue that can move your career change scene forward. Rather than focusing on the questions, focus on the answers that you do have. Work with what you've got. Try out making some outlandish statements (even if they're not quite true, yet) and see where they take you.
Questions in career change are great. But they don't work alone, especially when they're secretly getting you off the hook with taking action. As David Alger explains:
"A form of blocking progress in a scene (in its more subtle form) is asking questions. Questions force our partners to fill in the information or do the work. It is a way of avoiding committing to a choice or a detail. It is playing it safe."
Wherever possible, celebrate and own the things you know. Take charge of your scene and what's going to happen next.
Replace: "What am I going to do with my life?" with "I don't know all the details of my future career. But I know I love working with people, and I want to be outdoors, and I'm going to find a career that ties those two things together."
Replace: "Who would ever take me seriously?" with "Someone will take me seriously, and all I have to do is keep talking to people until I find them. I'm going to start with my brother-in-law."
Replace: "How can I possibly make this work financially?" with "I'm going to try cutting my budget by a third this week, and see what difference that makes."
Focus on the solution, not the problem. Be a part of that solution. And it's amazing how our internal dialogues affect how our lives turn out. Try changing yours this week – catch yourself with the negative questions, and replace them with statements – and see what happens.

4. There are no mistakes, only opportunities
In our Career Change Launch Pad, one of the first principles we introduce is taken from a Roosevelt quotation:
"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
Part of the joy of dramatic improvisation is the element of surprise. Nobody knows where the scene is going to go. And in that absence of knowledge, there's also an absence of rules. It's impossible to get it wrong. You can do things that slow the flow, that surprise your fellow actors and require a little extra effort to get back into a groove, but nothing can possibly be a mistake.
In the absence of expectation, there are no mistakes.
Every unexpected development, every so-called 'wrong turn' is another opportunity to learn more about the characters on stage. To develop more of a scene, more details, more tangible 'things we know' about the story that's unfolding. None of them are wrong, they're just not what we expected.
Trying to cultivate this attitude within a career change isn't easy. We're often in a rush to get out of our current job, to get things right so we can 'escape' and stop feeling so stuck and confused. And quitting your job with no savings to become a busker and hope you get noticed probably isn't the best idea – I can see why we'd consider that a mistake.
But if you actively seek to enjoy the journey, to take a few wrong turns and meander through your shift in a relaxed way, mistakes are just opportunities to learn.
And by making small, low-risk mistakes, you can learn the most, most effectively. In our Lean Career Change method for testing out your ideas, every little project is a chance to find out more about yourself.
This week, approach your career change as an exercise in making small mistakes
Try out ideas, Lean-Career-Change-style, that you have doubts about
Get in touch with inspiring people who probably won't get back to you
Try applying for that next job with a video instead of your CV / résumé
See what you learn. Watch for the opportunities to open up.
There are at least ten more rules to dramatic improvisation, most of which could also be applied to career change in a number of ways (for example: take your characters on a dramatic journey, focus on the here and now…).
But for this week, I'd like you to test out these rules in your life and your career change. Say "yes" to yourself and to other people, all week. In fact, say "yes, and". Make statements. Own and use what you know, instead of focusing on what you don't. And then get out there and make a whole bunch of mistakes.
Make like a mockingbird and see what shows up.

(source : https://www.careershifters.org/expert-advice/the-art-of-being-clueless-how-to-change-career-when-youre-totally-confused)