I hope you enjoyed that brainstorm, and you had fun with that. Here we are at step number three. So watch in the end that brains drawn all your ideas what stands out now if you wrote down tons of ideas, you probably want to go through and just add a star checkmark beside some of them. And then get into this next step, which is bring some of those ideas forward onto this stage of refining and planning. So even though at this stage, your ideas may seem still kind of wacky, remember that house on Mars example and bring it over anyway because once we refined it, it may make more sense. So anything that makes you curious and makes you smile, or you just want to explore it a little bit further, put it on the top of this page.

Now once is here, you're probably going to notice that you've got a common theme You can combine a couple of these ideas and turn it into something else, you can push it a little bit further. So I want you to pause this video and just take a moment to go through those ideas, write them out and see if there's anything that's common, or something that you can combine. Next, I want you to take three of your ideas from the upper page, and put it in the middle of the page as something you want to explore further. So for instance, when I was transitioning from my full time job to what did you know, there were few areas where I was discovering. So I was looking at sharing knowledge sharing the information that I learned from reading all those books. I wanted to put it all into an app so that I could put these nuggets of wisdom out daily for people.

That was one idea. Another idea I was exploring was a membership site. And that again, was about sharing knowledge people would pay monthly and receive All kinds of information for me. The third idea was different from that it was more similar to the job that I had just recently left it was to join a creative team. And it would be like an agency but we were we would remain freelancers. Now, we want you to also take some few ideas from the brainstorm and put it in the section as things that you might want to explore further.

And I'm positive video again. Okay, now that you've done your divergent thinking, let's come to convergent thinking for things coming together. And we're gonna get a little more real. Using those same examples that I talked about previously. In my work transition. I told you, I wanted to make an app while the app didn't happen, or at least it hasn't happened yet.

But in that process, I didn't actually write about 100 mindset strategies. So if he paragraphs with nuggets of wisdom in them, even though I didn't put them in an app or haven't yet I send them out on a weekly basis. To my email list, and that is used to help grow my audience. So when I think about reality, the app didn't happen yet. But growing the audience with the same with the same content is working. The second thing I mentioned that I was considering was building a membership site.

Now, I did launch that to family and friends and I got their feedback. And I realized it didn't really fit with a membership site model, what would work better with his online courses, so that's what is turned into. So obviously, it's taken an idea and made it real more realistic and into something that I can actually produce. And then the third thing I was considering at the time was to join a creative team. And that didn't work out either. But I did end up freelancing, and I still do for the client that we were looking at.

So that turned into something as well. And again, it's more realistic. Since we're getting real. Let's also consider how the demand for work is changing technology is causing a big shift in the future of work, it will be a large factor if you're thinking of job that can carry you into the next few years. Or if you're thinking more long term jobs that are repetitive will likely be replaced by some sort of robotic. So you think driverless cars already exist, the whole transportation industry is going to be changing.

But there will also be a larger demand for people who can create this technology such as developers, and jobs that require human interaction such as healthcare will also change in the way that it's done. But that's still going to be in demand. So I want you to take the thoughts that you have those three concepts that you have, and see how they could turn into something else, like what possibilities can come out of that. If you know your house on Mars isn't the thing that you still want to pursue? What makes that more real? Is it about building homes?

Is it about building Anything, maybe schools or something? Is it about using the environment to create something? Is it about working with underdeveloped areas? Or is it the people that you would work with? What about those ideas really interests you and could turn into something real? Now this stage, you may find that you're going to drop one of these ideas, I want you to at least have two ideas that we can bring to the next stage.

And if you want to just have an idea that you think, no, maybe I would still like to do that, but that's like 10 years away, then keep that in the back of your mind as well. So feel free to add to it as well. And I'd have between two and four ideas to bring to the next stage.