The Secret to Starting a New Career

The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show

Chase Jarvis

Celebrity, Art, Career, Creativity, Money, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education, Careers, Writing, Interview, Investment, Influencer, Business, Photography

4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Early on in my career, I had to make an important distinction between what it means to be a photographer, and what it means to be a professional.

Not suprrisingly, if you have an ambition to do something different in your career, there are a myriad of obstacles. The largest one, being you.

In this episode I pull some lessons from my own career that helped me break through.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	There was a point in my career where I recognized something.
0:07.0	I recognized that a photographer takes photos.
0:11.0	And a professional photographer not only takes photos, but sells photos.
0:16.0	And it sounds like an obvious thing to realize,
0:20.0	but the very specific acknowledgement that
0:23.5	there was a difference was profound for me.
0:27.0	Welcome to another episode of the Chase Jarvis Live show.
0:29.3	This is a micro show, and today's micro show is considering what happens when the going
0:35.6	gets tough.
0:39.9	That little bit about me taking photographs and recognizing the difference between just taking photographs and deciding to make a living and a life
0:45.8	around it, it really was a valuable recognition. And I'm wondering if you have made a similar
0:52.7	recognition in and around your own ambitions.
0:56.8	Now, if you have an ambition to do something different in your career, the chances are there are
1:01.5	going to be lots of obstacles. And the reality of all of those obstacles is that the biggest one
1:08.4	will be you. Certainly identifying what you have to do. For me, it was the
1:12.7	distinction between just becoming a photographer and becoming a professional photographer, and yours
1:18.2	may be some other massive distinction. But what is usually true is that we are our biggest
1:26.2	blocker. And there's a point when we start taking a new direction,
1:30.7	that we need to stop thinking quite so much and overindex on doing. We already know the negative
1:38.3	voice in our head is not useful. We know that voice well. We're not going to be able to
1:43.3	think our way out of that voice necessarily, and we certainly're not going to be able to think our way out of that voice
1:45.3	necessarily, and we certainly aren't going to be able to think our way to the next level in any
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