Okay, we're on Step three, be planning your experiments. Now, I love experiments. They are fantastic because they're just about discovery. That's it. Learning, discovering, figuring things out. It's not about success or failure.

So when you think about it, even when you talk to somebody and you say you're trying something they're going to ask, well, how's it going? Are you are you succeeding? Are you feeling like, what's going on? There's expectation on that with an experiment. There's no pressure, there's no expectation. You say you're experimenting with something.

They're like, Oh, what are you learning? What are you discovering? You know, there's, there's no pressure it's so much easier, and it can be a lot smaller than actually diving in and trying something. Now there's one thing that I want to make sure that you know, is the day Train learning and experimenting, learning is fantastic. You can read a book, you can talk to somebody, you can take in a lot of information. But experimenting is hands on, you're actually doing it, which means you're going to learn all the nuances about it that you know, you're not going to pick up in a book or from a conversation, you actually have to do it to get those nuances.

And then on top of all that, you're going to figure out if you like it, if you're just reading, you're going to know if you're attracted to an idea or not. But if you're actually doing it, then you will actually know if you like it. So make sure that your experiments are hands on getting some practical, physical activity in here is really key. So let me give you an example. Before I built this, this very course that you're taking right now, I did an in person workshop. Now I connected with two people who I knew were thinking about what work will inspire them what they want to do next and I base the curriculum on what I thought would help them.

And I thought, Okay, well, even if there's only my two friends and myself, the three of us, the workshop will still be about discovering, and it will teach me a lot. I'll uncover a few things. Now I've put the word out there after I had set it up with these two, and we've got 12 people, that dozen people, it was fantastic. I got lots of feedback. And I discovered some things that I just wasn't expecting. One was that lifestyle was really important to people.

And the other is that brainstorming is harder than I realized. For most people. I've done it a lot. So it comes easily to me. When I put it out there people really struggled. So that's why I put the gains in this course.

I experimented with the workshop in person before I built this online course. So I discovered all the nuances that I needed to and put them in here got the feedback I needed. And I found out like, do I really enjoy this subject? and turns out? Yes, I do. Let me give you another example.

This is a common one that I hear from some of my friends. They want to open a coffee shop. I'm sure you've heard people say that, oh, it'd be so nice. If I could just quit my full time job and open a coffee shop, I would do it this way. Now, China and I, you know, serve these things. They have all these wonderful ideas.

Well, it is a huge leap to go from working full time for somebody else to opening your own coffee shop, like night and day difference, right? So how do you experiment to see if that's something that you would even like, an easy way to do it would be to get a part time job in a coffee shop. That way you could you'd be in there regularly and see how the business was running and see what different parts of people were doing and they're different roles. So you'd see how to order things and the inventory and how to advertise and he gets So much exposure to so many things. And you would know like, do you like this? Or do you not like this?

Do you want to take it further or not? all the nuances. So getting a part time job in the industry that you're thinking of getting into would be fantastic. But that's, of course not always possible. Sometimes, however, you can job shadow for a day or two, or job shadow a few different people. And that is really helpful.

So a little easier than getting the part time job in that field. But job shadowing, a lot of people are really open to that people want to help you out. People want to show you what they're doing. So job hunting is a great idea. Another way to do it is just get into that environment and interview people. So using the coffee shop example, go down to your local coffee shop.

And when it's not so busy, the staff have a few minutes, talk to them. Be curious, ask a whole bunch of questions. Again, people really like to talk about what they're Doing not everybody, most people, find the right person, find somebody who likes to talk about it, and have them show you everything that they can show you. Even if it comes to cleaning up the coffee machines, like what's involved with that I know be really curious, a lot of people would also consider taking a class in the field that we're trying to get into. And that's great. But I just want to really encourage you for an experiment that's got to be hands on.

So if it's more of a workshop, that's going to give you some more information, and even better if that cost comes with an internship, where you're going to spend some time actually doing the job, that would be fantastic. That's, that would be a great experiment. Okay, so once you've got your you've got a few options from the previous work, but your refined brainstorm ideas, you are now putting them into an experimental forum, on the worksheet and I also want you to Put a timeframe on it. So when you have the ideas of, well, I'm going to go down to the coffee shop and figure out how I can get some exposure there. You may not know all the steps that are involved in making that happen. But you know the first step, go down to the coffee shop, find out what the manager's name is, when are you going to do that?

Put it on your timeframe, put it on your calendar, what day are you going to do that and get the ball rolling. You can think of the next like two or three steps maybe. But you're not going to have the entire plan rolled out. Because once you do the first couple steps, the next two or three steps will reveal themselves and then the next few will reveal themselves. So don't expect to have the whole thing in your head already pre planned. Just take the first couple steps.

Plan into your calendar, get the ball rolling, and trust that the process will happen after there. So make lots of plans, figure it out. You have about three experiments you only have two that's okay if you go with four, that's fine too and I will see you in the next video.