With millions out of work in America, filling the unemployment lines, self-help expert Austin Vickers explains the trick to landing your dream job. Watch this video clip and learn how to challenge the assumptions which hold us back.
AUSTIN VICKERS: Well thinking alone won’t change their reality. You can’t just sit on the couch at home and wish for a better job and hope that all of a sudden it will magically going to appear. I don’t think it works that way, but imagination can change their reality, looking at the problem of, ‘how do I get to work, how do I create a job while it appears that none is existing’, is the beginning of thinking that will in fact change their reality.
But it requires us to challenge our assumptions; maybe we have to work for less money. One of the pieces of advice I give to a lot of people around me when they ask me about finding work is, I say to them go to the company for example that you would most want to work for and offer your services for free.
What if you showed up on their doorstep and simply said to them, “I believe in myself and you are going to believe in me in 30 days but for the next 30 days I am going to come and work for you for free, and if at the end of that 30 days you think I have made a contribution…then hire me, and if you feel like I am not valuable to your company then you can let me go and you don’t owe me a thing”.
If people do this and they believe in themselves and then take that action, how often is it that an employer is going to simply let them work for 30 days and then let them go? Trust me, it doesn’t happen that often that people approach us willing to give that kind of a contribution for free with such a strong belief in themselves.
So we have to challenge the way we are thinking about these problems, even when it comes to things like unemployment or being out of work, and then we have to employ new strategies that will help us employ our imagination and create results, not only for ourselves but also for the people that we are trying to get work from, or our jobs.
And when we begin to think in new ways and challenge our own assumptions about the problems that appear to be happening to us then we can make our way out of our prisons and begin to change the reality that in the moment may not appear to be very good for us.
ABOUT AUSTIN VICKERS:
After graduating from law school with honors, Austin went to work as a trial lawyer for one of the largest law firms in the world. After several years of trial practice, Austin left to work for a prominent American Fortune 100 company, where he ultimately served as General Counsel of one of their European divisions and as a senior business executive. In September 2000, Austin resigned his position at the top of his legal/business career to pursue full-time his passion for changing people’s lives. Since then, he founded the Human Process Mastery Institute, a Fortune 500 leadership training institute. Austin is the writer and producer of “People v. The State of Illusion”, a docudrama based on his work and the science and power of perception and imagination that will be released in the fall of 2011. He is also the founder of The Stepping Up Foundation, a non-profit organization helping people and organizations in need. He is the author of the personal leadership book and program “Stepping Up: to a Life of Vision, Passion and Authentic Power” and is a professional speaker who has educated and entertained audiences from some of America’s leading corporations, including Intel, Wells Fargo, Colgate Palmolive, Merial, Veolia Transport, and 3M.
Austin is a public speaker who provides individual and corporate leadership training, personal development, executive leadership sessions plus leadership and management workshops.
On a personal note, he’s an avid reader, an aspiring musician, is passionate about physical health and the practice of yoga, and as a certified yoga instructor and spin instructor teaches weekly classes in both.
ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY:
Exalt Films, and Movies From The Heart, are proud to present “People v. The State of Illusion,” a film by Austin Vickers. This feature length documentary/drama, directed by award winning Director Scott Cervine, is set in the notorious “Old Main Prison” of the New Mexico State Penitentiary, and tells the story of Aaron Roberts, a single father who loses his daughter to a state facility after he is arrested and tried on charges following an incident. While in the state home, an attorney learns of her plight and the story of her father, and decides to represent her in an innovative and surprising case against the State. “People v. The State of Illusion”, features, Dr. Robert G. Jahn, Joe Dispenza, D.C., Brenda J. Dunne, Debbie Ford, Thomas Moore, Dr. Candace Pert, Dr. Peter Senge & Dr. Michael Vandermark.
If you enjoy good documentaries like, “What The Bleep Do We Know”, “The Secret” and other psychological movies, make sure to see, “People v. The State of Illusion”. http://www.thestateofillusion.com/