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Hot Takes with the Murphman — Episode 49: “The Professional Development Plan: Charting Your Career Growth.” · Military Broadcast Radio | MBR Talk

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  Welcome to Hot Takes with the Murph Man.
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  Today in episode 49 we are talking about the Professional
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  Development plan, charting your career growth.
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  A job is what you're paid to do now.
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  A career is the sum of your professional journey, a
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  professional development plan. PDP is your personal road map,
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  turning your career aspirations from a vague dream into an
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  actionable strategy. The fuse is lit.
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  Murph, man, take the mic. Like like we said, you know, we
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  have the the career choice that we make and I started off in the
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  arcade. I started off as a cardboy at
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  Kmart. I started off working in the
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  floor cashier. That has nothing to do with what
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  I'm doing right now. Can we agree on that?
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  Yeah. And that's where that career
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  comes from. OK, A career is the some of your
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  professional journey, but a professional development plan is
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  your personal road map on how to have a career that's successful.
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  OK, the PDP, that's what we're going to be talking about.
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  And we never start at the beginning, right?
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  We don't really think about our career at 151617 years old.
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  I have students that work with on NHS that know what they want
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  to do. Like I have one guy who wants to
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  be a doctor, one wants to be a pilot.
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  You know, there's, there's things like that, like the one
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  girl wants to be a pilot. She's an amazing student and
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  everything, and her parents are pilots, so it's pretty natural
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  that you become a pilot, right? Yeah.
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  Because one is fun, but two, she already has the parents who've
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  been in there, so she already knows what the career is like,
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  and she already knows if she's wants to be in it or not.
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  Yeah. So it's one of those things that
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  you have to ask yourself if you're at the, the, the point in
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  career where you're ready to take that step and move further
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  ahead or to change your gears. OK.
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  So let's let's go ahead and let's do the burning question
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  and we will see what the question is for today.
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  Are you fit or are you ADD? The best way to ask today's
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  burning question is what is a skill gap?
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  First choice is A the difference between your skills and a Co
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  worker skills. Then B the difference between
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  the skills you have and the skills you need for your next
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  role. Or is it C the skills you learn
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  in college? Maybe it's D the skills you
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  learn on the job. Murph man, we are ready to hear
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  what the flashpoint is. All right, So what is the skills
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  gap Connor? OK, that's what they really talk
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  about here. We have the difference between
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  you, your skills and a Co worker skills or between the skills
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  that you have and the skills you need or the skills you learn in
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  college or the skills you learn on the job.
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  What do you think it is? I think it's be the difference
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  between the skills you have and the skills you need for the next
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  role. Exactly.
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  And when we have the the gap, all right, of what do we know?
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  What do we need to know? You know, I'll give you an
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  example. When I started counseling at the
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  runaway shelter, I have been doing counseling in the Army.
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  I had worked with a programs, I've supervised programs.
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  I've done all that. And all of a sudden, I was in a
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  counseling position with kids that I had never, ever thought I
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  would do. OK, I had a huge skill gap, but
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  I was able to get the other skills that I had and morph them
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  into becoming a counselor for kids.
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  So I had the skills. I just need to learn how to
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  apply it to students and to kids.
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  And working with families was also new to me, you know, So
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  that was another skill gap I had.
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  Does that mean I didn't know my job?
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  No, it's just there's certain things you have to learn how to
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  do that. If you've never been exposed to
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  them, you have to learn them, right?
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  For example, if you were to say when you get had your job at the
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  movie theater, did you really know how everything worked in
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  the movie theater? No, you had no clue.
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  We have never been exposed to that, right?
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  You had a skills gap and you had to learn how to do that.
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  One of my favorite things I talk about is shopping carts.
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  And what do I tell you every time I see people pushing
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  shopping carts now? They they're lucky that they
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  have the little. The little robot machine that
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  pushes it for them, They just started, right?
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  Yeah. Well, I think it's funny because
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  there's so much that there, there's so much going on, OK.
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  And you, you, you don't know it because you just never been
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  exposed to it. Exactly.
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  You know, I want to give a shout out to Cassie real quick.
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  She's over here giving us wave lights and hand hearts and Cupid
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  koalas. Thank you very much for that,
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  Cassie. Much appreciated.
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  Thank. You.
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  And then gels just joined. Welcome gels.
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  How we doing everybody? You know, as as you talk about
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  all this, right? And your skills are something
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  you don't know it. It's not a bad thing because you
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  you've never been exposed to it. All right, so let's talk about
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  today's hot take and let's see what I have to say about this.
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  Fitting in leads to burnout. Today's hot take is this
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  Focusing on the skill gap for the job above you is the only
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  way to earn a promotion. If you are only focused on
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  mastering the tasks you are currently paid for, you are
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  implicitly telling the organization you are comfortable
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  staying right where you are. All right, so today's hot take
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  fighting fitting in leads to burnout value is your only
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  relevant metric. How important are you to the
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  job, right? And focusing on the skill gap
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  for the job you always is your way to earn a promotion.
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  OK, If you see your, your career path, right and you have a skill
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  gap and you work toward it, you're focused on mastering the
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  tasks you're currently paid for. And you are also telling the
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  organization you are comfortable staying right where you are
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  because you're learning, right? There's, there's some things you
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  can do that just do not matter, right?
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  They don't matter at all. And that's why I think it's so
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  funny is everything we do at work, everything we do at work
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  is so important that you need to learn it and you need to be able
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  to have it. So what do you think about that,
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  Connor? You know, you got to show that
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  your boss that you're actually doing what you need to do to
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  keep your job. Yeah, that's obviously one of
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  the key points you need to do in order to have a job.
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  Right. Is to make sure that your boss
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  knows what you're doing. Last week, you know we've been
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  talking about managing up, talking to your boss, letting
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  you know what's going on, reporting to your boss.
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  But also what do they see? OK, when you learn a new skill
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  you should let your boss know. Not it depends on what skill.
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  Well, well, yeah, you. Know that doesn't.
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  Configure I learned how to use a Coke machine OK.
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  Yeah. Right.
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  But hey, I cleaned the popcorn machine for the first time.
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  That's a big one. Earlier I was saying what do I
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  hate most about this? The shopping cart boys.
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  Look, today they had that machine.
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  I had to push metal carts. They didn't have the lower
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  weight cards. They were heavy and there was a
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  lot of them. And I didn't have a string on
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  one end to hold it with a hook. I had to run and stop it from
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  hitting cars if they got away from me.
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  And then I had to do that in the rain and the snow, the heat, it
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  didn't matter. Hearts had to come in.
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  And I've told you stories about like during Christmas holidays,
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  there were no carts available. And I told you we went to Sam's,
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  they point out how many carts they have.
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  No, no, I forgot to do that. But if you go at Christmas,
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  there'll be maybe 4 carts available.
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  And it's, it's crazy. I just being a cart boy, I have
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  respect for them because they do a lot more than anything.
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  And when you just leave your cart lane somewhere, that's not
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  fair to everybody, is it? You know?
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  So let's let's go ahead and take a quick break.
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  And when we come back, we're going to talk about those colds
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  that we can have that will let us define more of what we're
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  going to be doing today. So stay tuned, we'll be right
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  back. It's time for a break.
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  Hot takes with the Murph man will return.
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  we pause for something that matters to the Murph man deeply.
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  All right, we are back again. The song going to make 22 zero
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  press 1. Someone will be there for you
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  24/7, 365 or 366 in the leap year.
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  Yes. All right, real quick.
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  Let's see if you remember where's the world's largest leap
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  year celebration. I have no idea.
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  And Anthony? I don't remember that.
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  Who cares about Anthony? Oh, if it's the world's largest
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  celebration, we should go there. Do you know where the world's
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  largest alien convention is? I forgot the city.
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  Roswell, Yeah. All right, we live like we live
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  between these cities. So all right, you guys, let's
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  talk about those definitions that we need to learn today so
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  we can discuss this episode. Decoding corporate norms Now
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  before we dig in, let's clarify some of the key terms we'll be
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  using today while laying down the coals.
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  Professional Development Plan PDPA structured document that
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  outlines your career goals and the steps you'll take to achieve
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  them. Skill gap analysis identifying
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  the skills you currently have versus the skills you need to
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  reach your next career milestone.
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  SMART goals Goals that are specific, measurable,
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  achievable, relevant, and time bound.
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  Now that the coals are laid, Murph man, let's discuss the
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  foundation all. Right, yes, let's do that.
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  So we have the first term Professional Development Plan,
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  PDP. This is a structured document
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  that means it's written down that outlines your career goals
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  and the steps you take to achieve them.
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  Next is a skill gap analysis, identifying those skills you
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  currently have versus the skills you need to reach to your next
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  career milestone. And last but not least, SMART
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  goals. Goals that are specific,
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  measurable, achievable, relevant and time bound.
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  Let's talk about those real quick.
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  And starting off with the professional development plan
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  being written down. Why should we write it down?
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  I don't know, it's better to see it instead of trying to remember
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  it. Right, like that, the steps
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  don't change. You can also add to it or take
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  away from it, right? But you also have something
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  written, something real, something you can see, you know,
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  many, many, many years ago, I don't even know if it's still a
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  thing. There was this thing called
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  Amway and they used to sell products, home products fairly
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  cheap or cheaper, but they were better quality.
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  So you had to use less, they were more concentrated.
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  Whatever it was, it was just a multi level marketing scheme
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  where I would be an Amway seller.
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  I'd be like Connor, you can make money here.
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  You make 30% off everything you sell.
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  You're like sounds easy, sign me up.
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  You know to pay a monthly dues, right?
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  Well, I get paid of what you make.
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  I get my percentage and. Your percentage would be.
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  I don't know. Just but The thing is you would
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  then go higher and try to get 5 people so you can get their
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  percentages right. But I get some of their
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  percentages from you. That's why it's called multi
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  level marketing. No, you get, well, yeah, you get
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  some of their percentages, but you just get it from mine.
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  No. Yes.
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  I'm telling you, the way it worked was everybody that signed
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  up, I'd get a certain percentage point like it would go, I'd get
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  5 percent, 4%, three percent, 2% or whatever that I don't know
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  what it was. OK, so the more people I signed
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  up I I'd make more money. People that I would sign.
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  Up and then you would make more money by more people.
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  You sign up and that was really the thing.
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  It wasn't about selling the products.
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  You know, back in the day they also had long distance companies
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  that would give you cheaper rates.
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  OK, So you had to sign up with the company and you'd get their
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  rates. Well, I could say sign up for
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  this amount of money and I get a percentage of it.
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  So I started selling that, you know, but it was it really.
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  I didn't sell squat and I had so much of that stuff, all that
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  equipment that I bought in my original kit.
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  It was crazy, right? And I, I didn't make any money
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  and we got out of it fairly quickly.
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  But one thing that I liked about what they did was they had this
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  diamond level that meant you had so many people working under
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  you. And that's where that percentage
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  rose. I talked about, right?
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  So at every level I get a percentage up to a certain
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  point. And at that diamond level, when
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  I had so many people working under me, you know that that was
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  the goal. And they, they made us.
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  Well, they didn't make us, but they suggested we put up diamond
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  pictures all over the house. Why do you think you'd want to
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  do that? I don't know.
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  A constant reminder of your goal everywhere you go.
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  And what have I told you? If you want a Corvette, put a
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  picture of a Corvette in your room every morning.
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  You look up and you're like, that's my goal for, you know,
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  see what I mean? I guess, yeah.
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  It's a reminder of what you want and having a professional
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  development plan written down and something you can review
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  every now and then. Make it a goal to review it
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  every Friday and ask yourself this week, did I do the steps I
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  needed to get to make my plan viable?
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  And if you did, sorry, puberty sucks very good.
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  If you did do everything right, you're going to, OK, I did good.
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  Let's go to the next week and see what I got to do next week
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  and review it every two or three weeks like that and ask
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  yourself, am I doing what I need to do?
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  What else do I need to add, You know, and that's why you write
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  it down, OK. The other part of that was the
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  skill gap, identifying the skills you have versus the
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  skills you need and how you going to get there.
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  What do you think is the the hardest thing to do when you
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  have a skill gap from your point of view?
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  Learning the skill. Learning the skill, but how are
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  you going to learn it if you don't know it?
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  You have to ask for help and asking for help for one thing
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  it's hard for a lot of people asking for help from a Co
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  worker. When you say I don't know how to
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  do this, can you help me? Right.
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  And just there's a gap and you need to learn it somehow.
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  Ask for help, ask for the manual, read the manual, talk to
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  people, see what's going on that you can interact there with your
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  Co workers and learn that new thing.
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  All right, it's very, very important.
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  All right. And the last part is the smart
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  goal. Now let's see Connor out of
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  memory. Do you remember what the acronym
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  SMART stood for? What is stood for SMART Goals?
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  SMART stands for a specific, measurable, achievable, relevant
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  and time bound. That is.
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  From what I learned from school. That's correct.
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  What do you think is the most important part there?
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  Is it the specific, measurable, achievable, relevant or time
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  bound? I would say all of it, but if I
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  had to choose one, achievable. Achievable.
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  OK, let let's talk about that. I I love talking about this this
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  specifically. OK.
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  You say it to you, Well, we'll get to that in a little bit, but
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  let me go over each one specific.
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  You need to have a goal that is very specific about what you're
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  trying to get to, right? Trying to get more listeners,
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  trying to get more followers interacting with people,
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  whatever that happens to be for us in the podcast personally.
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  Being able to fix up the house, add the other bedrooms we want
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  to add, you know, things like that, right?
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  Yeah, personally, you know, so have my business succeed, start
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  doing shows around town and everything professionally,
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  working at work and doing the best I can, you know?
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  OK, those are all goals. Are they specific?
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  Yeah. Are they?
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  Well, when you say specific, what do you mean specific?
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  Like that's why I say those are goals, that they're very clear
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  goals to do better. Or what does that mean?
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  Filing your paperwork every day, Right.
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  Yeah. You know what I mean?
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  Like doing your notes every day before you leave for the day,
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  whatever the case may be, doing your homework before you leave
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  school, all that stuff, Right. And that's sort of what you have
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  to look at. And the more specific the goal,
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  you don't want to be too, too, too specific, but the more
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  specific the goal, the better chances you are at succeeding in
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  completing it. I wanted to be a counselor.
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  What are the steps to get there? Get a degree, the licensing,
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  finding a job, making sure you like it, you know, finding a
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  certain direction or profession in the counseling field, Right.
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  Yeah, those are specific, very specific.
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  I need to get a master's degree, period.
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  That, that, that's not a degree. I need a master's degree, and
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  then I need another 15 or 18 hours into a PhD, right.
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  Those are very specific goals. Saying I need a degree is a goal
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  not specific enough. All right, the next one
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  measurable when you're working on a goal, like for example, if
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  I say I want to be a millionaire by the time I retire, what's my
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  measurement? My bank account, right, All my
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  stocks and bonds, all my properties or whatever I have
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  added together and gets a million, I can say I'm a
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  millionaire now that's that's measurable saying I want to be
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  rich. Again, it's not specific.
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  What's the definition of rich, right?
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  And then how do you measure that?
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  Are you rich when you make 200,000 a year or are you rich
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  when you make 20 million a year? I I'd be happy with 200.
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  I'd be happy with 200, right? Would we be rich?
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  Richer. Yeah, then what we are.
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  Yeah. Would I eventually become rich
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  if I got that money and was able to save it and invest it
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  properly and everything? Yeah, OK.
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  But right now, 200,000 it just better than we are all right
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  now. Achievable.
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  Is it possible? That's what you have to ask
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  yourself, All right, If you put $20 in the bank today, 40 years
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  from now, it could be worth 300. And I don't know, don't comment
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  math on that. If I put $20 today, by the time
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  I retire, I'll have 25, maybe not even that much.
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  You know, it's funny when you first started savings and then
• 26:21
  your dividend comes back from the bank and it says you made
• 26:23
  one cent interest. You know, you made $0.05 and you
• 26:27
  made six, you made ten, you made $1.20.
• 26:29
  You know, you see that number right?
• 26:33
  And you see you're getting there, but is it really
• 26:36
  achievable? OK.
• 26:40
  And then is it relevant? Meaning when you have a goal, is
• 26:43
  this something that you're working toward that you want to
• 26:45
  do? Is there a reason for it?
• 26:47
  Not just I want to whatever, right?
• 26:50
  And last but not least, time bound, I want this by this time,
• 26:56
  whatever you consider that. OK, Now if you say I want to own
• 26:58
  a house by the time I have my degree finished, you could wait
• 27:04
  till you're 60 to take that last class you need, right?
• 27:08
  So you want to have that time bound, You want to put a time
• 27:11
  frame on it and say by this time.
• 27:12
  So the example I'd like to use on this is I want to be able to
• 27:18
  go into space, right? And see the Earth from the from
• 27:23
  the sky, from the universe, OK. Is that a specific goal?
• 27:32
  Yeah, yeah. All right.
• 27:34
  Is it measurable? Yeah.
• 27:38
  So I'll be up there, right? I'm in, I'm in in space.
• 27:40
  Hey, right now I'm, I'm, I'm floating in water.
• 27:43
  I'm floating right then is it achievable?
• 27:49
  Well. With the training and effort.
• 27:53
  Training effort. OK, In the old days you had to
• 27:55
  be an astronaut. Degrees also, yeah.
• 27:57
  OK. Yeah, you have to.
• 27:59
  Get a job. Well, well, you have to.
• 28:03
  There's a lot of steps you have to take to become an astronaut.
• 28:06
  Now what's the only thing I need to go into space?
• 28:09
  I don't know. Money.
• 28:13
  Pay $20 million to go up into space.
• 28:15
  That's all I need. Did you do it?
• 28:19
  Hell yeah, If I had several hundreds of millions, maybe in
• 28:23
  the billions where 20 million doesn't really matter.
• 28:25
  Not if you had 20 million, would you spend it all on space
• 28:31
  spacing back or? If it could be up there for
• 28:35
  longer. Well, how long do you think?
• 28:38
  3 minutes that's I don't know if that's worth it to me.
• 28:43
  Really. Yeah.
• 28:44
  Going up there, waiting 3 minutes, they coming down.
• 28:49
  Yeah, I don't. I don't know if that would be
• 28:50
  enough for me. Do you think it'll be enough?
• 28:54
  Yeah, I don't think it would be enough.
• 28:58
  I want. That anybody else?
• 29:01
  OK. Can I go up a second time or
• 29:03
  third time or fifth time if I'm that rich?
• 29:05
  You got 20 million. If I'm Elon, if I'm Elon or ZEF,
• 29:09
  I can do that, right? Well, they made a business.
• 29:13
  You know, but all I need is money is irrelevant.
• 29:20
  Yeah, I I want to, you know, it's something I would like to
• 29:22
  do. Have an interest in astronomy
• 29:23
  and space. All right.
• 29:25
  As a time bound. Well, I want to do it before I
• 29:30
  die. Yeah.
• 29:34
  Is that time bound? Yes.
• 29:37
  But first I have to get the money and so see how goals build
• 29:42
  on each other. So is me wanting to go to space
• 29:50
  a SMART goal? Yeah.
• 29:54
  Is it? It's possible, right?
• 29:56
  I could I could win the lottery. I you know, whatever.
• 29:59
  Right? So there's always that chance.
• 30:06
  Am I working toward it? No.
• 30:08
  If I become a billionaire, I think if I ever got to 1
• 30:12
  billion, I would actually get a flight for us and the girls.
• 30:20
  Really. Yeah.
• 30:21
  I would get everybody up there. We'd all die together.
• 30:24
  OK. No, I, if I get to a billion
• 30:28
  dollars, I want to, you know, share, share the wealth.
• 30:31
  And that's something I'd want to do.
• 30:32
  I would take my friends up, you know?
• 30:35
  If they want to. If they want to, I'm not going
• 30:37
  to force them to, you know, but when you, when you think about
• 30:41
  this stuff, right, think about the goals and how they're,
• 30:47
  they're what's the word I'm looking for realistic.
• 30:57
  OK, the SMART goal has realistic in it, but relevant realistic is
• 31:04
  I'd like to use the word realistic better.
• 31:06
  OK, and you need to have long term goals yet or you need to
• 31:10
  have short term goals, then a long, a medium term goal and
• 31:13
  then a long term goal, a degree short term goals past this
• 31:17
  class, medium or next shorter one could be past the semester,
• 31:25
  complete a semester. Next one could be complete 2
• 31:27
  semesters. So the short term goals, right?
• 31:30
  Medium term goals are I want to get to be a junior in college.
• 31:34
  I want to be a senior in college now I want to graduate, right?
• 31:42
  And then the long term goal 5 to 10 years down the road.
• 31:44
  What do you want? I want to have a job, work in
• 31:46
  the field. I got my degree in very
• 31:48
  specific, very realistic, very measurable, right.
• 31:54
  Short, medium and long term goals for every goal you have is
• 31:56
  something we need. Yeah.
• 31:59
  We need to add is those goals need to have those steps because
• 32:04
  as as you have them linking, excuse me, as you make those
• 32:11
  goals and you have the short, medium and long term goals and
• 32:14
  they're specific and everything you're working toward it.
• 32:17
  Can you have more than one goal at a time?
• 32:19
  Yeah. Yeah, you don't have to have
• 32:21
  that only goal. Writing them down, let you know,
• 32:25
  hey, these are things we can do. But I'll tell you what, I want
• 32:29
  to show you a story real quick from Liam and Maria.
• 32:37
  Look at their perspectives and then we'll talk about it.
• 32:39
  OK, Connor. OK.
• 32:50
  Tuning in, not blending in. In today's Story from the Fire,
• 32:56
  2 new hires, Liam and Maria start in the same marketing
• 32:59
  role. Liam does his job well.
• 33:02
  Maria also does her job well, but she also creates APDP.
• 33:07
  She identifies a need for data analysis skills, takes an online
• 33:10
  course and seeks out projects where she can apply her new
• 33:14
  knowledge. A year later, when a marketing
• 33:16
  analyst role opens up, Maria is the obvious choice.
• 33:21
  That was a story from the fire, Murph.
• 33:23
  Man, are you feeling the heat? All right, Liam and Maria
• 33:28
  started the same marketing role. Liam does her job well.
• 33:32
  Maria does her job well. They're equal, right?
• 33:36
  But she also creates a professional development plan.
• 33:39
  She identifies a need for data analysis skills, takes on an
• 33:42
  online course, and seeks out projects where she can apply her
• 33:44
  new knowledge. A year later when marketing
• 33:48
  analysis position comes up, she can jump into it.
• 33:52
  Now one of my, one of my favorite stories in my life was
• 33:57
  I was a supervisor of a day treatment program and I had a
• 34:01
  bachelor's degree and I was working on my master's degree
• 34:04
  and I started taking on jobs that the director would do OK.
• 34:11
  And I, I, I, I did things that were not my job, OK?
• 34:22
  I did things that I was able to, to do.
• 34:27
  And I just did them. I learned how to do them and I
• 34:31
  did them. We got a new employee coming in,
• 34:36
  OK, And I trained him on everything I did, right?
• 34:45
  And then I got my master's degree one day and they go to my
• 34:49
  boss. I'm like, all right, I now have
• 34:52
  one of the only requirement I was missing is my master's
• 34:55
  degree. OK.
• 34:59
  And he says, Sean, if you weren't, if I didn't think you
• 35:02
  were management material yesterday, what makes you think
• 35:06
  I think you are today? You're just a piece of paper.
• 35:10
  Damn. Damn right.
• 35:11
  So I started looking for a job. That's how I got the job at the
• 35:15
  Renault shelter. And what was funny was my boss
• 35:17
  Patsy, because I ended up getting the job, she calls him
• 35:21
  for reference. And what was funny during the,
• 35:23
  the interview process, I, I didn't put him as a reference.
• 35:27
  And she's like, how do you not put your boss as a reference?
• 35:30
  He is just so busy, he never is in the office, you know?
• 35:35
  And she goes, oh, I, I've known him since school.
• 35:37
  I'll just call him on his cell phone.
• 35:39
  Crap. Oh.
• 35:43
  Anyway, I got the job. I left not 3 weeks later, maybe,
• 35:51
  maybe I'd like maybe 5 weeks because that'll be at least one
• 35:54
  month for the report, all the reports to be made.
• 35:58
  He's like, I need you to come back.
• 36:01
  I will give you the position. I will give you whatever money
• 36:03
  you want for the director within reason, of course, right?
• 36:07
  I need you to come back. And I said last month you didn't
• 36:12
  think I was management material. What makes you think I'm
• 36:15
  management material now? And he says I had no idea what
• 36:21
  you were doing. And he says you left and so many
• 36:28
  reports fell through the cracks. Wow.
• 36:34
  And he says what I said, what happened to the guy that we
• 36:37
  hired? And, you know, I trained him how
• 36:39
  to do my job. Well, he realized those jobs we
• 36:43
  were doing were not part of his job description.
• 36:45
  They were part of the program director's position.
• 36:47
  He's like, I'm not, I don't have to do them.
• 36:50
  Oh. And yeah, a couple of months
• 36:56
  later, the business was out of business is just.
• 36:58
  Yeah. Oh, wow.
• 36:59
  And, you know, is it my fault? Maybe.
• 37:04
  I would I would say. Maybe.
• 37:11
  But I, I threw it back at him and I said, what makes you think
• 37:14
  that I'm measuring material a month later because nothing's
• 37:18
  changed. What changes?
• 37:21
  He realized everything I was doing for him.
• 37:23
  Now, did I fail and not tell him what I was doing?
• 37:28
  Exactly 1 of the things to tell you is tell your boss what
• 37:30
  you're doing right. Yeah.
• 37:33
  No, because I was taking on the job myself.
• 37:36
  Now, if you would have said one day, hey, who's been doing this
• 37:40
  report for three months? Well, Sean has.
• 37:43
  OK, See, it would have been nice.
• 37:46
  I was doing the job already. Then one day nothing changes and
• 37:50
  I make 30,000 more easy, right? As opposed to learning a new
• 37:57
  job, being the director, having to worry about everything.
• 37:59
  I I learned of those skills before I even had the job.
• 38:02
  OK, so it's funny that he needed me and he, he literally called
• 38:10
  me and offered me the money and I'm just like, no, dude, like,
• 38:14
  wow, I'm, I'm really happy where I'm at now.
• 38:17
  Remember we talked about the job when I was at, I was a counselor
• 38:19
  working with kids. I never had done that before.
• 38:22
  So that was interesting to learn.
• 38:24
  OK, But the, the the irony there is that I learned those skills
• 38:34
  and I became a great counselor and I actually got known for
• 38:36
  working with kids. I would have never thought that
• 38:38
  was going to happen, honestly, you know, but for those of the
• 38:43
  people who met me in school and everything, they're like, how is
• 38:45
  he able to do this? And I just learned it.
• 38:52
  Yeah. Excuse us.
• 38:55
  All right. So having the goals is
• 39:00
  important, you know, knowing where you're going is important.
• 39:04
  Having the professional development plan is important.
• 39:06
  Knowing the skills you need to have is important.
• 39:11
  Like Nike says, just do it. Excuse me.
• 39:15
  OK, sorry, allergies. Just do it.
• 39:18
  And Speaking of just do it, this is I have ADD I'm not fixed.
• 39:25
  Excuse me. Bless you.
• 39:32
  OK, that's three sneezes. That's all that's easy to get.
• 39:35
  OK, I've. I've had more than three.
• 39:37
  I know you have, but I'm saying I just do three in a row.
• 39:42
  I got a Cleeks box. I'm OK.
• 39:46
  I helped my friend move out yesterday from his.
• 39:49
  House and all the boxes at dust on them and everything.
• 39:51
  So yeah. Yeah, the house was dusty.
• 39:53
  I was like damn. All of us were like, damn.
• 39:57
  Oh, they didn't realize how dusty it was, you know?
• 40:00
  Move everything because like they got it from their
• 40:03
  grandparents. Yeah, it was like passed down to
• 40:05
  them and they passed away and they didn't like move anything.
• 40:10
  The front room was like their their grandparents so.
• 40:15
  Full of dust, super full of dust.
• 40:19
  Now you, you say that when I think of like I, I haven't
• 40:24
  dusted in a while, not a long time, but enough to have a
• 40:27
  little bit of dust on on the table.
• 40:30
  And this past week, I fell down because I hurt my hip.
• 40:35
  And I remember reaching down, you know, and then I started
• 40:38
  telling. I'm sorry, let me excuse myself
• 40:42
  real quick to wet my face. Well, I was going to tell you
• 40:47
  the story. Let me just finish this part.
• 40:53
  I I was all kicking in. I.
• 40:54
  Was telling my brother, yeah, I fell here.
• 40:56
  And then I reached down to the table and I and he looks a
• 40:58
  little right there because he could actually see my handprints
• 41:00
  in a little bit of dust. I'm like, yeah, yeah.
• 41:03
  All right, I'll tell you what. Let's take a break.
• 41:06
  Usually we do it before, after the heat map.
• 41:09
  Let's do it before and we'll take a quick break and we'll be
• 41:11
  right back. You guys sounds good.
• 41:13
  It's time for a break. Hot takes with the Murph man
• 41:16
  will return. After these messages.
• 41:33
  Observe, interpret and thrive. The heat map will show you where
• 41:38
  to focus your efforts for the most impact.
• 41:41
  Identify your one and three-year career goals.
• 41:44
  Be specific. Assess your current skills.
• 41:48
  Ask yourself and your manager, what skills will I need to get
• 41:51
  to the next level? Set one or two SMART goals for
• 41:55
  professional development Each quarter.
• 41:58
  The map is drawn back to Murph Man for the next segment.
• 42:04
  We are back. We are back and I was supposed
• 42:06
  to hit a brake. I thought I did and I know what
• 42:09
  happened. What?
• 42:11
  During the break I moved the heat map in order and it
• 42:15
  activated it. So do you need more time or can
• 42:19
  we go into the heat map? I'm good, all right.
• 42:23
  If I do sneeze then I'll excuse myself.
• 42:27
  All right, so the heat map, observe, interpret and thrive.
• 42:32
  OK, identify your one year, three-year goals and be
• 42:35
  specific. Short term is a couple months,
• 42:38
  one year, three-year to five year.
• 42:39
  If you want to even go longer, 5 to 10 year, OK, depending on
• 42:42
  what the goal is. If your degree is to get your
• 42:44
  degree, I mean, if your goal is to get your degree and you get
• 42:47
  your degree, then then now what? And hold on.
• 42:53
  Oh. Don't want to lose their life
• 42:56
  again, yeah. And you're not going to have a
• 43:00
  goal of five and 10 years for earning a degree.
• 43:04
  You want to do that within four to five.
• 43:06
  OK. So sometimes having longer term
• 43:08
  goals like owning the home for you, owning a Corvette, right?
• 43:13
  Yeah. And a home and whatever you're
• 43:14
  going to do with it, right? Access your current skills.
• 43:17
  Ask yourself and your manager, what skills will I need to get
• 43:22
  to the next level? Sometimes you're already doing
• 43:26
  them, they don't know. And set one or two SMART goals
• 43:30
  for professional development. Your turn.
• 43:37
  Guy cough you sneezes dude. You say bless me to me I say
• 43:42
  cough you. Cough you.
• 43:45
  I don't know what to say for that.
• 43:47
  You sneeze and you say bless you, but what about a cough?
• 43:53
  Well do you First off ADD do you know why they say bless you when
• 44:01
  you sneeze? No.
• 44:04
  In all times, they used to think that when you sneezed, that was
• 44:08
  your soul leaving your body. Oh.
• 44:11
  So they would say bless you and hopefully the soul will go back
• 44:16
  in anyway for a cough. I don't say anything, you know,
• 44:23
  it's. A demon trying to come out.
• 44:24
  It's a demon trying to come, yeah.
• 44:25
  Christ compels you every time someone.
• 44:30
  Comes the power of Christ. Just the whole water, the whole
• 44:32
  thing. Just be like this.
• 44:35
  You know that'll be funny. Every time they sneeze, it's
• 44:40
  break. Anyway, going back to the heat
• 44:44
  map, you guys OK? You need to have those.
• 44:47
  Those steps, those actionable steps that you can take to reach
• 44:54
  your goal for professional development, OK, That's that's
• 44:56
  very important. You need to be able to to sit
• 45:02
  there and learn and do things, OK.
• 45:06
  So it's very important, having those SMART goals, having those
• 45:10
  steps, having everything gives you direction and purpose, not
• 45:16
  just because, right, It tells you where you're going.
• 45:20
  And you need to know that. Yeah, you need to know that.
• 45:24
  All right, so I'll tell you what.
• 45:26
  We're going to go to break now for real.
• 45:28
  And when we come back, we'll talk about where those pitfalls
• 45:33
  are You going to fall, and you could get burned.
• 45:35
  And the Shields help you protect yourself from that.
• 45:41
  Stay tuned, we'll be right back. It's time for a break.
• 45:44
  Hot takes with the Murph man will return.
• 45:46
  After these messages, the station where our veterans
• 45:56
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• 46:00
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• 49:18
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• 49:27
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• 49:37
  Before we get back to the show, listen up El Paso.
• 49:41
  Many things are coming to El Paso and you want to stay in the
• 49:44
  loop. We are setting up trivia, bingo
• 49:47
  and karaoke coming to locations near you.
• 49:50
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  purehottakes.com to stay updated.
• 49:58
  All right, exciting things coming to El Paso.
• 50:03
  You know, I started a business called Borderland Success
• 50:06
  Holdings and under that I have my animation studios, my
• 50:08
  production studios, everything. I have Borderland Entertainment,
• 50:11
  which is my trivia and bingo karaoke branch.
• 50:16
  I have my Murph Land events, which is all my podcasting, my
• 50:19
  life hosting, emceeing and all that, right?
• 50:22
  Yeah. It's coming, it's coming.
• 50:25
  And I'm, I'm getting it together little by little and I'm
• 50:30
  excited. You know, hopefully we can do
• 50:31
  some of those trivia and bingo nights soon.
• 50:34
  You know, I'm working on the website right now.
• 50:36
  What? Are you working on right now or
• 50:39
  what? Like on the website?
• 50:41
  Just making my pages and it's not hard but I'm trying to make
• 50:46
  it look more professional and that's why I'm having a little
• 50:49
  bit of issues because I can do a website but.
• 50:51
  Anybody can, yeah. No, believe it or not.
• 50:54
  But the templates, yeah, there's templates now where you
• 50:59
  literally don't need anything. You need to put your
• 51:01
  information. That's it.
• 51:02
  But it would have like everything set up already.
• 51:06
  So right, some people only need would just be the information,
• 51:10
  That's it. OK, let me, I'm I'm curious, let
• 51:15
  me see if I can log in here real quick anyways, so I can show
• 51:19
  everybody the screen, I'll show my screen with them.
• 51:23
  But if you can log. In.
• 51:25
  I can I just all right, so anyway, we'll we'll talk about
• 51:29
  that in a little bit, but yeah, we have a lot of things coming
• 51:32
  here to El Paso, you guys, you know, and it's all going to be
• 51:35
  me not lying. It's all going to be me.
• 51:39
  Let me show you here real quick. That's.
• 51:41
  True. OK, let me let me let me share
• 51:50
  my screen real quick so I can show you guys this all.
• 51:54
  Right. All right.
• 51:58
  I don't know. What do you tell me what you
• 52:02
  think about it as you see it? OK, These are the 10 minutes
• 52:08
  you're talking about, right? No, but yeah, OK, same time
• 52:15
  because there was one where literally it's a website with
• 52:20
  the heading, the title and then sections.
• 52:23
  That's what this is. Well, but smaller.
• 52:25
  Smaller. That's like the full thing.
• 52:27
  One of the and that's the thing, you know, I can adjust and go
• 52:32
  smaller. All right.
• 52:33
  I meant like. But watch this.
• 52:36
  With like it's a small box instead of like the whole
• 52:40
  screen. Mine are the the templates.
• 52:45
  Templates. OK, then look at this.
• 52:53
  Each one of those is the page I'm working on because those are
• 52:57
  all the different things that I have going on with this.
• 53:02
  So how cool is that? And let me show you my second
• 53:04
  page real quick. So yeah, I think it's pretty
• 53:15
  cool. I'm excited and it's just it's
• 53:19
  not easy to do that. But you know, I'm learning more
• 53:26
  specifics how to do it and you know I used to do HTML on front
• 53:31
  page and. HTML.
• 53:34
  Yes. Oh yeah, sorry, I don't know why
• 53:36
  I was thinking HDMI. No, HTML is the website language
• 53:41
  and there were templates and I had to go in and change certain
• 53:46
  things. And I know how to change like I
• 53:47
  wanted to go make this red. I had to find the line of code
• 53:49
  for red. And you know, I can do that now.
• 53:51
  It does it all for you, you know, So it's a lot easier.
• 53:54
  But knowing what I want to write in there is why I'm having
• 53:56
  trouble with it, you know? But getting back to the show,
• 54:02
  let's talk about those heat Shields that'll help you prevent
• 54:06
  from falling into those pitfalls.
• 54:17
  Your values are your anchor, Here are your heat Shields.
• 54:21
  Your development heat shield is the next level skill gap.
• 54:25
  The heat here is stagnation, doing the same job year after
• 54:29
  year. Deploy the shield by
• 54:31
  continuously evaluating the skills required for the role
• 54:34
  above you, not just the one you currently hold.
• 54:37
  Investing time and resources into closing the skill gap
• 54:41
  Shields your career from obsolescence and ensures you're
• 54:44
  ready for promotion the moment the opportunity arises.
• 54:48
  The Shields are up, Murph man, What's next?
• 54:53
  Well, not what's next, what's before?
• 54:58
  I, I don't know what happened. I, I deleted the wrong clip when
• 55:01
  I was when I was moving things around, remember, because we
• 55:02
  were going to go to break and I didn't.
• 55:04
  And yeah, I, I don't know what I'm sorry.
• 55:06
  I got him out of order, it happens.
• 55:09
  It's at least at least we saw it.
• 55:11
  Yeah. So we're going to get burned
• 55:14
  letting your career just happened to you.
• 55:16
  You know, you're inventing an ownership or have a plan or
• 55:18
  being the architect. You're not going to get
• 55:20
  anywhere, right? Create a plan, but never looking
• 55:23
  at it, obviously, and setting vague goals.
• 55:26
  Those are all things we've talked about, right?
• 55:28
  Yeah. So let's let's get to the heat
• 55:33
  map that we just talked about in King or heat Shields.
• 55:38
  I'm sorry, heat Shields. All right, so the heat Shields
• 55:46
  are ways to protect yourself from getting burned.
• 55:48
  So if getting burned is letting your career just happened to
• 55:53
  you, be more proactive. Makes sense, right?
• 55:58
  If the pitfall is never looking at your plan, write it down.
• 56:02
  Put reminders around. They're called prompts, and
• 56:07
  setting vague goals use SMART goals.
• 56:10
  Makes sense, right? Yeah, shouldn't make sense.
• 56:15
  It should if, if it's like if we can't do it because of this,
• 56:19
  then do this. It's like A cause and effect for
• 56:23
  everything. It is cause and effect that it
• 56:26
  is, you know. So think about that, OK, You
• 56:32
  have these pitfalls that are very easy to fall into, right?
• 56:35
  Yeah. And if you don't do anything to
• 56:38
  change anything, it's not going to go well for you, right?
• 56:45
  So take, be proactive, take what you need to take in your life to
• 56:52
  get to where you want to go. Because you don't realize all
• 56:57
  that, right? Yeah.
• 57:00
  I, I, I like the fact that when when I have a goal I reach it
• 57:09
  for the most part, but I do it a little differently.
• 57:13
  My goals right now are financial.
• 57:15
  I want to get debt free so I have my budget for the next 7
• 57:22
  years. 06 years now 232. Wow, assuming I have the same
• 57:28
  job, same salary, same everything OK, but I have my my
• 57:32
  bills and I can actually say OK, this bill I'm going to pay.
• 57:35
  Like for example, I had I bought printer and printer ink that was
• 57:38
  $1000 and I got it on best buys card and no interest.
• 57:44
  Hold on. I'm I'm on live on TikTok.
• 57:50
  I need to verify I'm real and everything.
• 57:54
  So give me a SEC. This shouldn't be all right and.
• 57:57
  It's always those captchas, bro. Yeah, they are.
• 58:00
  They always, they always make something new, right?
• 58:02
  I swear. My budget like like I said, so I
• 58:07
  have a a 12 month payment plan to pay off the $1000 printer and
• 58:12
  ink just no interest right? So I go into my calendar and I
• 58:21
  put it down, no interest payment, payment, payment.
• 58:24
  And then let's say I were to buy something that like for example,
• 58:29
  when I buy my equipment right now, the 15 to $20,000 of
• 58:33
  everything I'm going to be putting together, I'm going to
• 58:37
  if I'm making payments on that or if I get a loan, low
• 58:40
  interest, whatever the case may be, right?
• 58:42
  That's a five year payment. There I go, right, doing the
• 58:49
  five year payment plan and I can put it into my budget.
• 58:51
  So if I want to be debt free by December, I look at my bottom
• 58:56
  line of December and see if there's any extra money that I
• 58:59
  haven't accounted for and I put it into a bill in December.
• 59:03
  That's our January. Anything at the end of the month
• 59:06
  that's extra, I either can put in savings or pay off bills,
• 59:08
  whatever the case may be, right? And that's, that's how I measure
• 59:14
  my goal. OK.
• 59:15
  Is how many payments am I paying off, Right?
• 59:19
  And like I told you one time, I paid off so many credit cards or
• 59:21
  so many debts or so many loans or whatever, right?
• 59:23
  Yeah. And you're like, that's cool,
• 59:26
  that's cool. You know, it's one of those
• 59:30
  things that for me right now, if I follow my plan, by the time I
• 59:37
  retire at 62, which I'm not going to get all my retired
• 59:41
  because I don't know if 65 you get more money, 67 to get more
• 59:44
  money and you know, you'd lose it or you don't.
• 59:48
  But like I get money ahead of time and I won't have it when I
• 59:52
  turn 65, you know, because it could be like $800 more 400.
• 59:56
  I don't know what the difference is.
• 59:57
  I was going to, I was going to ask you that.
• 59:59
  Yeah, but you don't break even until you're like 80 years old.
• 1:00:03
  Like even for what? If I get the money early versus
• 1:00:07
  waiting for the full amount? Well, what amount I'll.
• 1:00:12
  Give you an example. Let's say retiring at 62 gives
• 1:00:15
  you $1000 a month. Retiring at 65 gives you $1500 a
• 1:00:20
  month. All right, so from 62 to 65 I
• 1:00:24
  that's $36,000 a thousand a month for three years.
• 1:00:29
  If I would have waited till I turned 62 I get $500 more a
• 1:00:35
  month. But to make up to those 36 I
• 1:00:37
  have to live 72 months, which is 6 years before I even break even
• 1:00:43
  on the money. Wow.
• 1:00:46
  OK, I'll at 62, I'll also be fully invested in my TRS money
• 1:00:52
  for the teacher's retirement, right?
• 1:00:56
  Yeah. And then my disability, right?
• 1:01:01
  So by 62 I have 3 incomes. Well, Social Security is
• 1:01:05
  changing. Let's not even go there.
• 1:01:06
  They they've mismanaged it to the point where I'm not even get
• 1:01:08
  that money as much as I would, which really sucks.
• 1:01:10
  Don't get me started on that. Well, why?
• 1:01:13
  But how'd you know? Or.
• 1:01:14
  What the government has borrowed from Social Security for so long
• 1:01:17
  that they can't even afford to make their monthly payments
• 1:01:19
  right now. It's going to have to decrease.
• 1:01:23
  Oh, and people who are in Social Security have fixed incomes,
• 1:01:26
  right? And now their money's going to
• 1:01:29
  go down. By how much or what?
• 1:01:31
  Just like a little amount. Could be $30.00 a month, could
• 1:01:34
  be fifty, $100 a month. We we don't know how bad it is
• 1:01:38
  because it's been mismanaged so much by the government.
• 1:01:40
  And I'm not blaming Trump on this.
• 1:01:42
  This is something that's been going on 3040 years, OK?
• 1:01:46
  No one's fixed that. They've always, they never
• 1:01:48
  balanced the budget. They always took it and borrowed
• 1:01:50
  money from Social Security. And, you know, some presidents
• 1:01:53
  are better than others. But yeah, you know, but at 62, I
• 1:01:58
  can retire, but I have a house payment.
• 1:02:03
  What? Oh, sorry, Some presidents sleep
• 1:02:06
  better than others. Yeah, some.
• 1:02:08
  Some sleep for a while. Like a long time.
• 1:02:10
  Some presidents are better than others.
• 1:02:13
  Oh, they say sleep better. That's how I was like sleep
• 1:02:16
  better. I'm like, oh, because some are
• 1:02:17
  dead or what? I'm like, yeah, that makes
• 1:02:24
  sense. I I have no nothing here.
• 1:02:30
  Let me turn your microphone up. I mean your headphones up.
• 1:02:35
  Some presents are better than others.
• 1:02:37
  I. Bet.
• 1:02:37
  OK, OK. Or were.
• 1:02:39
  You. You said something before
• 1:02:41
  better. I don't know why I thought this.
• 1:02:43
  Presidents are anyway, if I want to get to that amount of money,
• 1:02:50
  I'm going to have my retirement. I'm going to say I'm going to
• 1:02:53
  get this much from Social Security, this much from
• 1:02:54
  disability, this much from teacher retirement, right?
• 1:02:58
  Yeah, No teacher retirement. I could choose to give to take a
• 1:03:02
  lower amount every month, but when I die you would get a
• 1:03:08
  payment for the rest of your life.
• 1:03:13
  And would my payment be higher if you take lower the money?
• 1:03:16
  No, if, if I, if I take the higher money amount, you don't
• 1:03:20
  get anything. So like I told you, if I could
• 1:03:22
  give you $500 a month, I don't know what the amount is right
• 1:03:25
  now, right? For the rest of your life, as
• 1:03:29
  you get older, you know you're going to be making money.
• 1:03:32
  You might be making $10,000 a month, 500 is nothing.
• 1:03:35
  But if you put those $500 straight into a savings account
• 1:03:38
  or something to invest, if you lose it, you're not hurting your
• 1:03:42
  income, right? And by the time you're 40,
• 1:03:45
  you're definitely going to be over a millionaire, believe it
• 1:03:49
  or not, from it's probably when I die, that's me when I die.
• 1:03:54
  But you could be a millionaire in 20 to 30 years putting $500
• 1:03:58
  away. Oh wow.
• 1:04:00
  Yeah, with founded interest in, you know, investing in stocks
• 1:04:03
  and bonds and everything. But I'm on the, I'm going to be
• 1:04:07
  on the fixed income at that point, meaning I'm not going to
• 1:04:11
  get more money. Now I could work, right and make
• 1:04:15
  money. But if I make 24,000 in work,
• 1:04:20
  then my payment goes down a dollar for every $2.00 I make.
• 1:04:25
  So if I make 24,000 and two, my payment goes down $1.00.
• 1:04:31
  If I make 50,000 it goes down 2500.
• 1:04:35
  You know what I mean? So my goal is by the time I turn
• 1:04:40
  62, right, to retire from my job and only have my business
• 1:04:46
  working. And as I'm sitting here, OK, and
• 1:04:54
  I'm saying, OK, what do I need to do to reach there?
• 1:04:55
  What are some of my problems I'm going to have with being this,
• 1:05:03
  this, what's it called on this fixed income?
• 1:05:09
  I need to make money right now, OK.
• 1:05:13
  And you don't realize it so much, OK, Because if you're
• 1:05:19
  sitting there, I'm sorry if you're seeing there and you you
• 1:05:26
  don't plan on what your bills are going to be in six years,
• 1:05:32
  then the fixed income is going to hurt you if you don't have a
• 1:05:35
  lot, right? Yeah.
• 1:05:39
  I had investments and everything, but I had to pay.
• 1:05:42
  I took it all out when your mom died, you know, So I'm starting
• 1:05:46
  over again basically after she passed.
• 1:05:51
  But one of the things I want to do is by the age of 62, have my
• 1:05:57
  house loan paid off. So if I stay here, remove or
• 1:06:02
  whatever we decide to do right now, this year, right?
• 1:06:05
  I told you by January I want to do something.
• 1:06:07
  Yeah. I have from January till the
• 1:06:10
  time I'm 62 to pay off that house which is 7 years.
• 1:06:13
  Well, actually, it's, it's 5 now.
• 1:06:17
  All my income has to go into paying the house off.
• 1:06:21
  So when I when I get to 62, all I have to pay is my taxes and
• 1:06:24
  insurance. You know, if at that point I
• 1:06:31
  need to retire, I need the money.
• 1:06:33
  You're not going to get anything if I can give it to you.
• 1:06:35
  Great. Right.
• 1:06:36
  OK. Yeah, but I have to be not only
• 1:06:39
  debt free, but all my payments have to go into a house and a
• 1:06:44
  new car, right? Yeah.
• 1:06:48
  And that car will be paid off in six to seven years, the same
• 1:06:51
  time as, you know, retirement. So I can retire with a car that
• 1:06:56
  is good and I can have a house that's paid off.
• 1:07:02
  And hopefully I'm not spending money on credit cards and
• 1:07:05
  everything, right? And then I'm good.
• 1:07:09
  I'm good, you know. Is that a good goal?
• 1:07:18
  I mean, it's a good goal, I would say.
• 1:07:21
  Because every one of my goals personal, professional,
• 1:07:25
  business, podcasting, everything.
• 1:07:29
  Yeah. Reaches to that one goal at 62,
• 1:07:32
  be debt free, have my house paid off, have my car paid off, and
• 1:07:36
  have enough money to be comfortable when I'm retired.
• 1:07:40
  Yeah. So can I have the same end goal
• 1:07:45
  but have several different sub goals?
• 1:07:47
  We talked about that, right? Short, medium, long term goals
• 1:07:50
  and then very long, all that many long term goals are going
• 1:07:54
  to be when I'm 62 and retire. You know, that's what you need
• 1:08:01
  to do when you're planning this stuff.
• 1:08:02
  You need to be able to say, hey, what is it that I, I want to get
• 1:08:08
  to? What am I doing?
• 1:08:10
  And get there OK, Think about all that.
• 1:08:18
  When you're young like you are, you get your first job.
• 1:08:22
  The first thing you need to do is figure out how much you're
• 1:08:26
  going to put in savings. Yes.
• 1:08:31
  Because you, you might be living here, you might be living in an
• 1:08:35
  apartment, whatever, right? But also you get this first job
• 1:08:38
  that gives you some serious money starting from that moment,
• 1:08:43
  take out a couple 100 bucks and put into savings every month.
• 1:08:46
  Don't even touch it like go and get one of those.
• 1:08:50
  Make your account like like on Chase for example, have your
• 1:08:54
  money go to savings, create an account and when it says suggest
• 1:08:56
  password, have let it suggested like Google.
• 1:09:01
  No hold on, wait, wait, wait, wait and then forget your
• 1:09:03
  password so you can go into your account.
• 1:09:07
  Then you have to forget password and it'll let you right, but
• 1:09:14
  have it in a bank that you can walk into like Chase or Wells
• 1:09:17
  Fargo or something and you walk in with your ID one day and say
• 1:09:21
  I need to take money out and you'd never keep an eye on your
• 1:09:26
  balance. Just make sure it gets there.
• 1:09:29
  Are they going to tell me to log in?
• 1:09:31
  No, no, not when you go to the bank, you give your ATM card or
• 1:09:35
  whatever. Does Navy federal and didn't
• 1:09:37
  they do that last time because we can't log in?
• 1:09:38
  No. No, the accounts were not
• 1:09:43
  attached to what we were trying to do.
• 1:09:44
  Oh, OK. And anyway, so you do that.
• 1:09:51
  And then let's say, for example, let's say you don't change your
• 1:09:54
  address or anything, right? And you get your debit card,
• 1:09:57
  you, you chop it up so you can't take money out of that account,
• 1:09:59
  right? In three, five years, you're
• 1:10:02
  going to get a letter in the mail that's going to have your
• 1:10:04
  new debit card and you're going to be like, oh, I got this money
• 1:10:08
  going into this bank account for five years.
• 1:10:10
  I have no idea how much I have right now, right?
• 1:10:14
  Yeah, You know, but you want to be able to put money in from the
• 1:10:18
  day one and never look at it again, $50 a $100, depending on
• 1:10:24
  how much you're making, right? Yeah.
• 1:10:26
  And I, like I told you, if you were to get the job like
• 1:10:29
  cybersecurity and make $100,000 a year, right, this house, if
• 1:10:35
  you wanted to live here with me, we'd fix it up, add on an
• 1:10:38
  addition, make it bigger, maybe a second story than one part of
• 1:10:40
  that, who knows, right? And you would be paying
• 1:10:44
  everything to the house to pay it off.
• 1:10:47
  So when we retire, you now have the house to yourself and it's
• 1:10:51
  paid off. So imagine being, let's see,
• 1:10:56
  seven years from now, 26, OK, you'll be in a house that's paid
• 1:11:04
  off, have a car that you might have been able to pay off and
• 1:11:09
  have nothing to worry about. And like I told you, if I ever
• 1:11:12
  get sick, just throw my butt in a nursing home.
• 1:11:14
  I'm, you know, I'm, I'm OK. I've lived my life, right?
• 1:11:18
  Yeah. But yeah, look at all that stuff
• 1:11:21
  because it's really interesting when you think about it.
• 1:11:24
  If you put money in now and you don't even touch it and you keep
• 1:11:30
  an eye on the bank, obviously, you know, you look at your
• 1:11:31
  account once in a while, but you, you don't touch it.
• 1:11:34
  Take out your debit card, right? Forget your password.
• 1:11:38
  So when you log in, it's there whatever.
• 1:11:41
  But one day you look at it and you have 50,000 or more, you're
• 1:11:47
  going to be like what? Where did this money come from?
• 1:11:50
  Don't touch it. Let it keep going, you know, and
• 1:11:54
  by time you're 40 millionaire. Easy, easy.
• 1:11:59
  Wow. You know, 20 years putting in
• 1:12:01
  the 2 to 300 bucks a month. If you can put more, put more
• 1:12:05
  until you can't and then lower it, but don't go, you know, too
• 1:12:08
  low. You always want to keep
• 1:12:09
  investing. That's that's the most important
• 1:12:11
  part is keep putting the money in.
• 1:12:14
  And like my cousin says, if you're trying to make money and
• 1:12:18
  you want to invest in the stock market, where would you put your
• 1:12:21
  money? I'm just curious.
• 1:12:23
  I have no idea Bitcoin. I wouldn't do crypto personally,
• 1:12:30
  maybe because I'm old school. Right.
• 1:12:32
  What would you do? Well take his advice and it's
• 1:12:37
  buy the stocks in what you use. So like what, Amazon?
• 1:12:44
  Right. Or Walmart, or if you like soda,
• 1:12:49
  Coke, you know, because that's what you like.
• 1:12:54
  And why not invest in it? True.
• 1:12:57
  You know, don't try to be like, oh, you know, there's a new soda
• 1:13:03
  out on Baja Blast, whatever. Maybe I should invest in
• 1:13:06
  Mountain Dew because it's the newest thing, you know, OK, you
• 1:13:12
  know, and that's it, That's it. There's some stocks you can
• 1:13:16
  invest in where they give you a dividend.
• 1:13:20
  They'll pay you a certain percentage every three months,
• 1:13:23
  every six months, every year, whatever they set up.
• 1:13:26
  So you get income from those stocks.
• 1:13:28
  OK. Some stocks give you access to
• 1:13:33
  specials like I think AMC does it, where if you have owned
• 1:13:36
  stock with AMC, you can go in and get their plan for free or
• 1:13:45
  something. If you own so many stocks, don't
• 1:13:47
  forget what how it works, but look into those stocks that give
• 1:13:50
  you that. You can type in what stocks have
• 1:13:52
  perks, what stocks have dividends, and you can do that
• 1:13:55
  too, you know? Yeah.
• 1:13:57
  And yeah, you can buy, you know, there's a certain rule in your
• 1:14:03
  investment. So when I say 100%, I'm talking
• 1:14:06
  about 100% of the investment, not your income.
• 1:14:08
  OK, 50% goes into stable stuff that's going to be there
• 1:14:14
  forever. Then 30% goes into medium risk
• 1:14:21
  stuff, OK, semi new but not really stabilized yet, you know,
• 1:14:27
  maybe Bitcoin or some crypto. And then 20% you want to put
• 1:14:31
  into very high risk because that could have a payoff big time or
• 1:14:39
  not. Like, for example, if I could
• 1:14:40
  have gotten a Bitcoin for a a cent for every stock and I
• 1:14:45
  bought 100, I'd have 6,000,000 right now.
• 1:14:48
  Wow. OK.
• 1:14:50
  That one, one cent, whatever, right.
• 1:14:54
  That's what you do with those 20%.
• 1:14:56
  It's you don't count them. You, you, you invest and you can
• 1:14:59
  put them in high risk stuff and you go in and before you know
• 1:15:02
  it. Yeah.
• 1:15:04
  You know, one of the things a lot of people do, you've heard
• 1:15:07
  of hedge funds. No hedge funds?
• 1:15:10
  No. I've heard but I don't know what
• 1:15:12
  they. Are it's, it's a bunch of
• 1:15:14
  companies that get together and invest and then this they go buy
• 1:15:18
  stuff or they invest it and they go to the higher risk stuff.
• 1:15:26
  Now a lot of hedge funds were buying up properties.
• 1:15:30
  So that's why one of the reasons this market is so high right now
• 1:15:34
  is because everyone's buying up all the properties.
• 1:15:36
  There's all these smaller homes, they're buying them up, they're
• 1:15:39
  facing up, they're flipping them and they're making money as
• 1:15:41
  rent, OK. And in the long term, they they
• 1:15:48
  pay it off or they sell it or whatever, then everyone gets
• 1:15:51
  their cut from it. But we're talking about owning
• 1:15:55
  several 100 to several thousand homes.
• 1:15:58
  Wow. Yeah.
• 1:15:59
  OK. And the little person has
• 1:16:03
  trouble buying a house because they can't afford the prices
• 1:16:05
  because they've inflated them so much, because it's a false
• 1:16:07
  market. So there's all that involved.
• 1:16:11
  OK. But yeah, what is your plan?
• 1:16:16
  If your plan is to invest money, do it.
• 1:16:18
  And you, you'll be golden by the time you get to be 4045.
• 1:16:23
  Imagine that. OK, I had you at at 40, No 36.
• 1:16:30
  Imagine you being five years old and I'm a millionaire.
• 1:16:35
  Wow. Wow.
• 1:16:36
  Right. How different would our life
• 1:16:37
  have been? Right?
• 1:16:39
  But that could have happened. Could have.
• 1:16:43
  OK, if I had planned properly. Yeah.
• 1:16:46
  And imagine having a point where you don't have to work anymore,
• 1:16:51
  Right? Yeah.
• 1:16:53
  God, that that. That'd be nice.
• 1:16:55
  Like my cousin. Almost my whole life.
• 1:16:57
  Well, yeah, but like, my cousin at like 40 stopped working.
• 1:17:03
  His wife was a teacher, and she wanted to keep going to school
• 1:17:06
  because she liked it. She liked teaching.
• 1:17:08
  She just retired, you know, and now they're going to go travel
• 1:17:13
  the world and whatever, you know, but get to the point where
• 1:17:17
  you invest and you plan. Because I'll tell you right now,
• 1:17:21
  in my opinion, my heart take, in my opinion, investing and
• 1:17:30
  planning to be debt free and everything by the time you're 40
• 1:17:36
  will make your life so much easier.
• 1:17:39
  It'll just make it so much easier.
• 1:17:42
  Now, I don't know how it all works with what if you're
• 1:17:46
  married and you get divorced? You know, does it become half of
• 1:17:50
  hers? And it happens, right?
• 1:17:53
  So you got to find a way to avoid that if you can, because
• 1:17:57
  you never know if the marriage is going to last or not.
• 1:18:00
  Also for the record, if you win the lottery today and get
• 1:18:03
  divorced tomorrow, she's still entitled to have the lottery.
• 1:18:07
  After taxes? Like after.
• 1:18:09
  Yeah, seasons out to half, whatever you get.
• 1:18:11
  Wow. Is there And then no.
• 1:18:14
  Because you're married and everything is split down 5050.
• 1:18:18
  So no matter what if I. Break.
• 1:18:19
  No, no, no. No matter what you can, you can
• 1:18:21
  negotiate and say, OK, I'll give you this much money, but I get
• 1:18:24
  the house and I get the car and I, you know, or vice versa, she
• 1:18:29
  can say, I'll give you the card and give me more money.
• 1:18:32
  Yeah, how much even is the lottery?
• 1:18:34
  Do you know last time you checked?
• 1:18:35
  I don't know if it it won, but it was a billion dollars for the
• 1:18:37
  Powerball, which would have been 433 million paid out to you in
• 1:18:43
  that lump sum. And from that they, you know,
• 1:18:46
  you pay all the taxes and everything for that year too.
• 1:18:50
  That's crazy. And then if you get payments,
• 1:18:52
  you would get about, I think it was 20 million a year for 30
• 1:19:00
  years, OK. And you think about that 30
• 1:19:05
  million a year minus taxes. So let's just say you would get
• 1:19:10
  what's 3 three? I'm trying to think what's a
• 1:19:13
  good percentage? I think it's 25%, right?
• 1:19:17
  No, no, I'm saying over your income.
• 1:19:19
  So if you get 25,000,000 would go to taxes and 15 will be what
• 1:19:24
  you live on, a million a month, basically.
• 1:19:29
  You can invest that. And now you have generational
• 1:19:32
  wealth where you can invest stuff that your children can get
• 1:19:35
  and they'll be able to use it. And you know what I mean?
• 1:19:38
  And their kids and their kids, it's called generational wealth.
• 1:19:41
  If you plan it right, or most lottery winners go broke after
• 1:19:44
  seven years, Like, like you don't think about this, right?
• 1:19:49
  Let's say you're 20 years old this year.
• 1:19:53
  You win the lottery. Yeah, And you buy a $5,000,000
• 1:20:00
  home, all right, Cash boom, right?
• 1:20:05
  And then you pay, you buy whatever else you're going to
• 1:20:10
  buy 30 years from now. You're 50, and you've lived a
• 1:20:16
  life. You've spent all your money.
• 1:20:18
  Everything's good, right? But now all that real property
• 1:20:21
  you own, you have to pay taxes on it.
• 1:20:23
  Property taxes, insurance. And if you have a $5,000,000
• 1:20:27
  home, what are you going to get? 100,000 a year.
• 1:20:32
  Yeah, you got to get a good job for the.
• 1:20:34
  Well, you're 50, you want to, you haven't worked in 20-30
• 1:20:37
  years because you've had this $1,000,000 lottery, right?
• 1:20:42
  Yeah. So even then you got a plan for
• 1:20:46
  the future. You're not rich forever.
• 1:20:49
  Yeah, You know, plan it out and do that so when you get to your
• 1:20:54
  age that you want to retire at, you can do it and not have to
• 1:20:57
  stress about it. Finances for me is the first
• 1:21:02
  goal. Now, are there short term goals
• 1:21:05
  for their? Yeah.
• 1:21:05
  Get your degree, get a job, you know, whatever the case may be,
• 1:21:08
  right? But as soon as you get those
• 1:21:11
  first paychecks, start saving immediately.
• 1:21:14
  You know, 10% would be great. OK, if you invest those 10% over
• 1:21:22
  the years, you'll, it'll, it'll grow very quickly.
• 1:21:24
  I promise you that. If you sit there and you do
• 1:21:28
  nothing, you're going to get to my age and be like, oh, I got no
• 1:21:31
  money. What do I do?
• 1:21:34
  You know, and I'll tell you with my first wife, I bought my first
• 1:21:38
  house at 23 years old. Like straight up bought my first
• 1:21:41
  house at 23 years old. OK, Bought my second house at
• 1:21:44
  28, got divorced. And how to sell them.
• 1:21:50
  Wow. You know, but right now, those
• 1:21:56
  houses would have been paid off, you know, It would have been
• 1:21:59
  making profit on the rent, isn't it?
• 1:22:02
  If you really think of it that way, Yeah.
• 1:22:05
  You know, but people get greetings.
• 1:22:06
  You want to sell the house, and they're like, all right, Nemo,
• 1:22:09
  Right. Yeah, you, you can.
• 1:22:14
  You can do it. Like, because I'm telling
• 1:22:16
  people, you know, I've had a horrible situation after my wife
• 1:22:18
  passed away, but I was good before that.
• 1:22:22
  I was good. But yeah, keep that in mind.
• 1:22:31
  If you make your financial goals your primary goal, you'll do
• 1:22:35
  much better in the long run. But you need to have other steps
• 1:22:39
  to get there. OK, makes sense.
• 1:22:42
  All right. So let's get back to our slides
• 1:22:45
  in the Afterburn and let's see what are those questions for
• 1:22:49
  reflection on what we've been talking about today.
• 1:23:01
  What culture helps you thrive in today's Afterburn?
• 1:23:05
  Here are some questions for you to reflect on.
• 1:23:07
  Where do I realistically want to be in my career in three years?
• 1:23:11
  What are the key skills of people who currently hold that
• 1:23:15
  role? What is 1 concrete action I can
• 1:23:18
  take this month to invest in my growth?
• 1:23:21
  Reflection complete, Murph man. Time for your final thoughts.
• 1:23:26
  Right. Where do I realistically want to
• 1:23:28
  be in my career in three years? OK, with everything I got going
• 1:23:34
  on with my business, My boss like you, you, you're going to
• 1:23:36
  quit, aren't you? I'm like, no, I'm going to be
• 1:23:38
  here until I'm 62. I'm too old to be changing jobs
• 1:23:41
  and learning a new thing and having a new skill gap and all
• 1:23:43
  that crap. Like you got to learn stuff.
• 1:23:46
  I know I could. I, I, I I know I'm not stupid.
• 1:23:50
  I know that. But do I want to That's, that's
• 1:23:55
  the, that's the point, Connor, Do I want to go through the
• 1:23:58
  hassle? Right.
• 1:24:01
  But what? No more question is like do you
• 1:24:05
  need to do? I need to what?
• 1:24:08
  Focus on it. Well, yeah, you don't.
• 1:24:11
  Got to put your time on it. If I get a new job, I have to
• 1:24:13
  learn a new job. But I'm like, do you need
• 1:24:16
  another job or do you just want another job?
• 1:24:18
  No, no, That's the thing. I'm going to stay at my job
• 1:24:22
  until they retire. I'm not going to change jobs
• 1:24:24
  because I don't want to deal with the hassle of dealing with
• 1:24:26
  a new job. All right?
• 1:24:29
  Does that make sense now? What happens if my business
• 1:24:32
  shuts down, They go bankrupt or whatever, Guess what?
• 1:24:35
  I got to get a new job. How how are they going to lose
• 1:24:39
  their job just. Unplug the computer?
• 1:24:41
  No, like the company goes bankrupt.
• 1:24:43
  No. And I think I have no no where
• 1:24:46
  to connect to I was. Saying because there was like,
• 1:24:48
  it's an online school. Yeah, I would like just unplug
• 1:24:51
  it. That's it.
• 1:24:53
  Oh, school's up. Yeah.
• 1:24:55
  Something like that. Yeah.
• 1:24:58
  But yeah. So realistically, what?
• 1:25:01
  Where do you want to be in three years?
• 1:25:03
  You. If I ask you, you're going to
• 1:25:05
  say I don't know, right. Where do you want to be in three
• 1:25:09
  years? And don't say I don't know.
• 1:25:10
  Oh, see. In school, still a senior I
• 1:25:17
  would say. OK.
• 1:25:20
  Finishing your degree close. Or am I close to it?
• 1:25:22
  What did my fifth year? Yeah.
• 1:25:26
  You probably would have one more year to go.
• 1:25:28
  You'd be a senior. OK, so, but you'd be finishing
• 1:25:30
  your degrees when I'm getting it.
• 1:25:31
  Yeah. OK.
• 1:25:33
  What about this? What are the key skills of
• 1:25:35
  people who currently hold that role?
• 1:25:38
  What do people have where you want to be in three years?
• 1:25:41
  Which is a degree, right? A job.
• 1:25:43
  A job do you want to do? Teach an assistant job to get
• 1:25:48
  there and work part time at school and help people in the
• 1:25:51
  labs and teach classes and everything.
• 1:25:53
  If I know the material that well, yes.
• 1:25:57
  You know. But that'll be like in 2
• 1:26:00
  three-year stops. Right.
• 1:26:02
  So that's what we're talking about, three years.
• 1:26:04
  Well, yeah, I'm like, I'm trying to think about them.
• 1:26:07
  Like will I really want to do TA?
• 1:26:13
  I don't know. Well, the last question is what
• 1:26:16
  is 1 concrete action you can take this month to invest in
• 1:26:21
  your future growth? Learn more about my degree.
• 1:26:28
  OK. And.
• 1:26:29
  I was just starting school this month and you got some new
• 1:26:31
  classes and everything so. Yeah, just do it over and over
• 1:26:34
  again. Definitely the only thing you
• 1:26:36
  could do. I do wish you luck with that,
• 1:26:38
  Connor. Thank you I'll.
• 1:26:40
  Tell you what, I want to take a quick break and I am taking a
• 1:26:43
  break, OK, and we will be back after these messages.
• 1:26:49
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• 1:26:52
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• 1:30:31
  God AI sucks. Why'd they never use it?
• 1:30:35
  Oh shut up, I use it all the time, it's fine.
• 1:30:41
  Some. Sometimes I use it a lot when
• 1:30:46
  I'm sitting at my business. Now not so much.
• 1:30:48
  Sucks sometimes. It doesn't, but I'll tell you
• 1:30:51
  what, we'll talk about that right now in our segment called
• 1:30:53
  Digital Inferno. Yeah.
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  It's time for a break. Hot takes with the Murph man
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  We'll. I already did this one.
• 1:31:12
  Slack etiquette is situational. Your PDP lives on platforms like
• 1:31:17
  LinkedIn and Notion. Use LinkedIn to perform reverse
• 1:31:21
  engineering. Analyze the skills listed by
• 1:31:24
  people who have the job you want.
• 1:31:26
  Next, use this data to populate a digital skill gap tracker in
• 1:31:30
  Notion. Furthermore, utilize online
• 1:31:33
  learning platforms, Coursera, Udemy to gain the specific
• 1:31:37
  targeted skills needed to bridge that gap, often using your
• 1:31:40
  company's tuition reimbursement system.
• 1:31:45
  All right, your plan lives on a platform like LinkedIn and
• 1:31:49
  Ocean. How is that OK?
• 1:31:53
  They call reverse engineering. See what jobs people have that
• 1:31:57
  you want. See what they list as their
• 1:31:59
  skills and then learn those skills right.
• 1:32:05
  Yeah. Then that that's one way you can
• 1:32:08
  use technology. OK, now people, I mean, I, I
• 1:32:15
  know you know when I say a search on Google, right?
• 1:32:19
  Yeah, you search for Google and it gives you ideas, options,
• 1:32:23
  right. But Google has AI mode and
• 1:32:26
  Gemini. No, no, no.
• 1:32:29
  I'm turning on the search engine.
• 1:32:31
  If you go to google.com and you type something, use an AI
• 1:32:33
  option. Yes, that's Google Gemini.
• 1:32:36
  No, it's not. It's Google AI.
• 1:32:38
  Which is Gemini that. Gemini is an app is Google.
• 1:32:40
  Gemini is an app. Separate from that Google search
• 1:32:45
  is Google AI. It's different than the Gemini
• 1:32:48
  program. OK.
• 1:32:50
  Gemini has a lot more features and everything.
• 1:32:52
  It's sort of like, you know, it's the AI mode on steroids.
• 1:32:57
  OK OK so like for example, if I type in people use the search
• 1:33:04
  for I want to go eat tacos today give me some options near me
• 1:33:08
  that is that OK to use a Google search for that Yeah right.
• 1:33:12
  That that's what Internet searching used to be I I need to
• 1:33:16
  find a place that prints business cards and it gives you
• 1:33:20
  options Now the AI mode same questions give me some places
• 1:33:25
  that that have or restaurants near me well what kind of food
• 1:33:29
  would you like Oh well I'm I'm feeling like eating some Mexican
• 1:33:34
  OK do you want to drive a little further or do you want to stay
• 1:33:37
  you know it's a lot different using the air mode OK if.
• 1:33:44
  What's this time around? If you use something different,
• 1:33:48
  like if you search for I want to buy a computer and then you can
• 1:33:52
  say, oh, well, I have this computer now with these specs, I
• 1:33:57
  recommend another one. And it gives you a lot of
• 1:33:59
  options. And then you can go and say,
• 1:34:01
  tell me more about this one. Tell me more about that one.
• 1:34:03
  And it's literally just a conversation as opposed to
• 1:34:06
  having to do a search every time.
• 1:34:08
  So the AI mode lets you do that. Now, why do I say that?
• 1:34:11
  Well, you can ask it. I'm getting a job in computer
• 1:34:17
  science. What kind of jobs can I get?
• 1:34:24
  But even before that, what skills do I need to learn to do
• 1:34:28
  that? And then you have a conversation
• 1:34:32
  with AI. OK, I know you don't like to do
• 1:34:34
  any of that, but it's really a way of working out problems for
• 1:34:41
  me because that AI mode lets me have a conversation that I can
• 1:34:48
  ask you the questions and expand on it instead of just saying
• 1:34:52
  where do I want to eat and getting options.
• 1:34:55
  Yeah, it helps me choose, you know, and I use it for business
• 1:34:59
  and everything. And then I'll say something
• 1:35:00
  like, I want to create a business.
• 1:35:02
  Tell me about the different options I have, but tell me more
• 1:35:05
  about these. Oh, this sounds like a good
• 1:35:07
  idea. Now here's my plan.
• 1:35:08
  What do you think? And it's a conversation, but
• 1:35:11
  it's answering all your questions same way as Google
• 1:35:14
  search would do. But it's all in one chat as
• 1:35:17
  opposed to searching, going to a page, searching, going to a
• 1:35:20
  page. Yeah, it's all in there now.
• 1:35:22
  That's the that's the thing about AI.
• 1:35:30
  Do you know what Seos are? No, it's a search engine
• 1:35:33
  optimization. And you have to have those Seos,
• 1:35:38
  correct, If you expect your business to come in.
• 1:35:42
  And if they search for it and it's not their church, church
• 1:35:45
  terms are not there. You know what's funny was back
• 1:35:49
  when my club had rivalry with the other club here in town, I
• 1:35:53
  did a the SEO to where my page appeared before theirs, even
• 1:36:00
  though their page had the city name in it.
• 1:36:04
  Wow. OK, because of the search terms,
• 1:36:07
  if you know how to, how to use all that, it's really awesome.
• 1:36:11
  But yeah, so you know, going to LinkedIn and just go into a
• 1:36:15
  person's page and go, oh, there's the skills they need.
• 1:36:17
  How much easier is that? Easier, Easier, a lot easier.
• 1:36:21
  OK, it's funny, I have this one person on LinkedIn that we
• 1:36:27
  message each other every now and then.
• 1:36:29
  I don't remember her. You don't, I don't.
• 1:36:33
  And I don't know if she just added me on LinkedIn or vice
• 1:36:37
  versa. And, you know, it was like a
• 1:36:39
  suggestion connection. And we talked and I, I don't
• 1:36:43
  know, like she actually replied one day, Hey, how's such and
• 1:36:46
  such person? I'm like, does she know me or
• 1:36:50
  does she know I worked there and that person works there?
• 1:36:53
  I don't want to be stupid and go, how do I know you?
• 1:36:56
  Right? If you're listening, tell me.
• 1:37:01
  But yeah, LinkedIn is one of those things that you can use it
• 1:37:05
  for a lot of different options. OK, You can look for businesses.
• 1:37:09
  You can look for everything and learn those skills you need.
• 1:37:15
  And then you can add them to your pages.
• 1:37:17
  If you see someone has a lot of connections, right, The
• 1:37:21
  algorithm will find connections for you.
• 1:37:23
  And before you know it, like you as a student, start adding all
• 1:37:27
  those people. Yeah.
• 1:37:29
  And they'll say, hey, Connor, you know, I see that you're
• 1:37:32
  studying cybersecurity. How far along are you?
• 1:37:34
  Have you taken this class yet? No, whatever.
• 1:37:36
  Or if you have, you know, I'd be happy to give you a an entry
• 1:37:39
  level job. You never know how it works,
• 1:37:42
  right? Because people are always
• 1:37:43
  looking and then you can figure out what your skill gap is from
• 1:37:48
  there and also utilize platforms like Coursera and Udemy to gain
• 1:37:53
  specific targeted skills. Now, let me tell you a little
• 1:37:55
  bit about Udemy. For the cybersecurity
• 1:38:01
  certification, the test costs I think 150 or $200.
• 1:38:07
  Like 150, yeah, for the CompTIA, yeah, yeah, like 15160.
• 1:38:12
  I got it on Udemy with the course to teach me it for $30.
• 1:38:17
  Oh wow. One and two.
• 1:38:20
  One and two. Yeah.
• 1:38:22
  For 30 bucks. Yeah, God, ish.
• 1:38:26
  OK. Oh Demi is amazing, you guys
• 1:38:30
  check it out. I'm going to need to look that
• 1:38:32
  up right now. You know, it's, it's one of
• 1:38:36
  those things that there's programs you can use.
• 1:38:40
  There's ideas out there, right? Yeah.
• 1:38:42
  And you can definitely see that all those things are there, OK?
• 1:38:50
  And look up with Demi. Look, watch, go to Demi right
• 1:38:54
  now, OK? Yeah, let's look this up, guys.
• 1:38:58
  Now I'm going to I'm going to show Connor something.
• 1:39:00
  Let me let me see. Can can you share your screen?
• 1:39:05
  Yeah. Hold on, let Connor share your
• 1:39:07
  screen real quick. OK, OK, now go back one page. 01
• 1:39:17
  page would lead me to Google. Yeah, I know.
• 1:39:19
  OK, OK. Look at the top real quick where
• 1:39:22
  it says AI. Oh, AI mode.
• 1:39:25
  Now hold on, you see that right? Yeah.
• 1:39:27
  You typed it on all and it gave you all the Scroll down just to
• 1:39:30
  show everybody you typed in Udemy.
• 1:39:31
  It gives you all that, right? Now go to AI mode.
• 1:39:37
  OK, and what does it say? Still gives me Udemy.
• 1:39:42
  It tells me features on the platform, tells me topics that
• 1:39:47
  it gives and then ask me questions.
• 1:39:53
  Do you see the difference? Yeah.
• 1:39:55
  OK, now go back to the all mode and go to Odemi and then look at
• 1:40:04
  different programs they have. Training courses chat JBTAI
• 1:40:10
  engineer Claude Yeah, mostly OK Coding and AI.
• 1:40:15
  Was it's technology? So click on one of those real
• 1:40:17
  quick. What?
• 1:40:17
  Or do they have prices on the bottom there?
• 1:40:19
  Price on bottom? Wow, that's a pretty good
• 1:40:23
  discount. Yeah, right.
• 1:40:26
  Yeah, 139, but yeah, you can get it for 25.
• 1:40:29
  Yes, OK, Udemy sponsor US. Alright, go ahead and stop
• 1:40:37
  sharing. Wow, that's crazy.
• 1:40:46
  Yeah, so Udemy is out there and it gives you all the courses you
• 1:40:51
  could ever want and it's all, it's all there.
• 1:40:55
  Literally it's all there. That's why I like Udemy a lot.
• 1:40:59
  They give you the discounts and the programs are really easy to
• 1:41:02
  to follow. OK, The courses are easy.
• 1:41:06
  All the work is there and it literally tells you exactly what
• 1:41:08
  you need for the test and you'll learn it.
• 1:41:13
  I wonder if it's the same one or it's just like a kind of a
• 1:41:19
  similar but different way they teach it because I don't know if
• 1:41:25
  it'll be the same. Same as it would be like school,
• 1:41:28
  no would do it. Teaching it is different because
• 1:41:31
  when it's self-paced. Yeah.
• 1:41:34
  Teaching is different. The test is the same for
• 1:41:36
  everybody. OK, the test, but the course
• 1:41:38
  itself is a little different. OK, that's what.
• 1:41:40
  I thought, and do you? Do you know what standardization
• 1:41:43
  means? Ever heard of that term?
• 1:41:45
  Just the normal basic standard type?
• 1:41:49
  No, that's what I think of it. Standardization means the test
• 1:41:53
  is standard for across the field.
• 1:41:56
  So if you tell me I got Comtia certification.
• 1:41:59
  Oh, which, which one? Comtia, That's that's the,
• 1:42:05
  that's the test. That's it.
• 1:42:06
  It was a CompTIA Plus or network or S or set, whatever it is,
• 1:42:11
  right? Yeah, all of those are
• 1:42:13
  standardized. So no matter what you take that
• 1:42:15
  test, you get it. They all stand for the same
• 1:42:18
  thing. Yeah, right.
• 1:42:19
  If you get a CompTIA, you would, you know, I would obviously
• 1:42:22
  think you know every single CompTIA.
• 1:42:24
  Right. You know, when I took my test
• 1:42:26
  for certification, I took the health course and I walked in
• 1:42:31
  and took the test without studying because I'm amazing
• 1:42:35
  like that. No, basically it's my entire
• 1:42:38
  life, right? I walked in, I took the test and
• 1:42:41
  I walked out and the girl says you were supposed to raise your
• 1:42:43
  hand if you have a question. And I said I'm done.
• 1:42:48
  And she says, what do you mean you're done?
• 1:42:51
  It's only been 43 minutes. I said I'm done.
• 1:42:57
  She says, you know, people take 2-3 hours doing this test.
• 1:43:02
  I said, yeah, when I did my special Ed test, it took me an
• 1:43:04
  hour and a half, you know, and you know, when you take a test,
• 1:43:11
  it tells you your score. I missed 2 questions out of I
• 1:43:14
  think it was 75, you know, and I'm like, wow, OK.
• 1:43:19
  I think I did pretty good. So that standardization is the
• 1:43:25
  same for everybody regardless of what you're testing, the way you
• 1:43:28
  get there, the path, the journey, the course is, is all
• 1:43:32
  different. The test is the same for
• 1:43:34
  everybody. So being self-paced, you go and
• 1:43:38
  you and you read about it and you learn it.
• 1:43:39
  You know, I haven't really done that too much because it's, it's
• 1:43:47
  not easy. And if I have questions, I'd
• 1:43:51
  like to talk to somebody, right? But like, if you and I were to
• 1:43:54
  do the course together, right, we could sit here looking at it
• 1:43:58
  and be like, oh, that's what it means here.
• 1:44:00
  That's what it means there. And we work on it together,
• 1:44:02
  right? Watch the course, OK.
• 1:44:05
  And then we answer questions. Watch the course.
• 1:44:08
  It's online like videos. I forget this video there's.
• 1:44:12
  No teacher teacher come into our living room and I can pause it
• 1:44:19
  and say hey, or I can go to the Internet and say hey, what does
• 1:44:23
  this mean? Explain it to me in more detail
• 1:44:27
  and then go back to my test or not my test, my course.
• 1:44:31
  OK, When you do that, you can learn, but it takes time.
• 1:44:37
  It's nothing's easy. I'm not saying any of this is
• 1:44:39
  like overnight, OK? It's not a scam or nothing.
• 1:44:41
  It's literally here's what I got to do to get this done.
• 1:44:46
  Yeah, right. So think about that.
• 1:44:50
  Use with Demi when you have a chance.
• 1:44:52
  It's, it's really, really cool and cloud code is one of those
• 1:44:56
  things that people are using more of now.
• 1:44:58
  And as much as I use AIII don't know, coding and the API keys
• 1:45:06
  and all that is above my head right now.
• 1:45:08
  I, I haven't even bothered to getting to that point.
• 1:45:11
  But the one thing I have learned is how to write a prompt.
• 1:45:14
  That's true, yeah. You know, I mean, look at the
• 1:45:17
  whole podcast, yeah. Based on a script, yeah, that
• 1:45:22
  you made, yeah. You know, that started off with
• 1:45:27
  I want to start a podcast. What subjects do you recommend?
• 1:45:31
  Here's the ones I want to do, and then it just started from
• 1:45:35
  there, you know? A whole year ago.
• 1:45:39
  Yeah, over a year. Crazy.
• 1:45:42
  Actually, a year and two weeks ago.
• 1:45:45
  Two weeks, Yeah. August 4th was the first
• 1:45:47
  podcast. Oh well, when you started like
• 1:45:50
  looking it up. Oh, Oh yeah, that was in June.
• 1:45:54
  Yeah. But yeah, wow.
• 1:45:58
  And the the first website I came up with was Hot Takes with Me.
• 1:46:05
  Yeah. And I'm like, no, that's I
• 1:46:07
  didn't like it, right? But so I went to pure hot takes.
• 1:46:12
  But either 1 doesn't tell people we're talking about college.
• 1:46:17
  Yeah. Neither.
• 1:46:18
  None of those is college. I'm like OK, do I change the
• 1:46:22
  name of the podcast? I just left this.
• 1:46:24
  When he said he wanted to do the name for hot takes, I was like,
• 1:46:29
  OK, we're going to be one of those podcasters that are, you
• 1:46:32
  know, on TikTok. There we go.
• 1:46:55
  Hello. Sorry about that.
• 1:46:59
  It's not the Internet. Our Internet didn't lock off.
• 1:47:01
  That was weird. It might have been streaming.
• 1:47:03
  Probably probably like a reset. Would go on.
• 1:47:06
  But he didn't tell me it was going to be about educational.
• 1:47:10
  So I was like, oh, I was excited to talk about everything else
• 1:47:13
  except school when I'm not in school, right?
• 1:47:17
  Suck for that. Well, let me tell you, January,
• 1:47:22
  we'll have all the episodes done.
• 1:47:24
  Yeah. We can do whatever we want.
• 1:47:27
  We can start over again and do one hour of classes and one hour
• 1:47:30
  of podcast. Classes.
• 1:47:33
  Yeah, the educational stuff. Oh, I was like, all right, all
• 1:47:36
  right, class, here's the board. Well, yeah, that's what we've
• 1:47:41
  been doing with the slides, no. No, I'm.
• 1:47:43
  Not saying that's what we're doing with the slides.
• 1:47:45
  I know, but OK. Yeah, you didn't know I'm using
• 1:47:48
  this like we just go. Over it though, right?
• 1:47:51
  But we don't like actually like, right.
• 1:47:52
  Hi, guys. Yeah.
• 1:47:55
  We just typed on the Internet, we just shared same thing, I
• 1:48:00
  guess a smart board. You got the smartest board here.
• 1:48:04
  All right, so let's let's go ahead and get start wrapping
• 1:48:06
  this up. Let's get to our final burn for
• 1:48:07
  today. The final burn for today is
• 1:48:18
  Slack. Etiquette is situational.
• 1:48:20
  Your PDP lives on platforms like LinkedIn and Notion.
• 1:48:24
  Use LinkedIn to perform reverse engineering.
• 1:48:27
  Analyze the skills listed by people who have the job you
• 1:48:30
  want. Next, use this data to populate
• 1:48:33
  a digital skill gap tracker in Notion.
• 1:48:35
  Furthermore, utilize online learning platforms Coursera,
• 1:48:39
  Udemy to gain the specific targeted skills needed to bridge
• 1:48:43
  that gap, often using your company's tuition reimbursement
• 1:48:46
  system. The Inferno is digital.
• 1:48:49
  Back to Murph Man to close the segment.
• 1:48:54
  Tuition assistance, there's companies out there like
• 1:48:57
  Starbucks from day one you can ask for tuition assistance and
• 1:49:03
  they'll help you pay for college, you know, utilize the
• 1:49:09
  programs that are out there. What?
• 1:49:11
  No, I'm sorry, I got confused. The final burn was the digital
• 1:49:18
  inferno. Yes.
• 1:49:22
  OK. It was a little bit of a repeat,
• 1:49:26
  not an actual full repeat. But yes, OK, that's what I'm
• 1:49:29
  talking about, the tuition assistance.
• 1:49:32
  OK, sorry. It's because I looked at him
• 1:49:34
  like, didn't we just go over this?
• 1:49:36
  When I was in the Army, we had tuition assistance and you have
• 1:49:41
  to get approved for it and everything.
• 1:49:42
  And what's funny is they'll, they'll pay for your tests and
• 1:49:45
  they'll, they'll pay for everything basically.
• 1:49:47
  And what's really cool about it is when you sit there and you go
• 1:49:55
  to college and they pay for it. And you know, a certain
• 1:49:59
  percentage, right? Your $1000 course is now 200.
• 1:50:07
  Utilize the tuition assistance. Some kids go to work at
• 1:50:11
  Starbucks just to get the tuition assistance.
• 1:50:14
  Because I don't I don't know if there's a certain minimum hours
• 1:50:17
  or whatever. OK.
• 1:50:20
  But remember, no matter what you do, just climb the ladder, OK?
• 1:50:28
  Step by step, climb the ladder. A career plan turns wishful
• 1:50:32
  thinking into a winning strategy, OK.
• 1:50:36
  Because yeah, we can all talk about it.
• 1:50:39
  But we can't show it. But we can't show it.
• 1:50:42
  So you got to have that career ladder going so that you're able
• 1:50:45
  to, what's the word, climb the ladder.
• 1:50:51
  And yeah, a little bit redundant there.
• 1:50:53
  Time. Show it.
• 1:50:54
  And then show yourself climbing the ladder, you know?
• 1:50:58
  What about you, Connor? Do you have any questions today?
• 1:51:02
  No, not that I could. Think of, OK, well, I think
• 1:51:06
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