Professional Action Plan

So, I'm almost done and I have to create a "Professional Action Plan Summary"

I had no idea what this was but I moved forward with it anyway.

Here's what I ended up writing for that summary.

Field of Dreams is a great movie. Ray had no concept of what it was he was trying to do he just knew that he had to do it. He had a passion, and a voice, telling him to move forward and with that, came the belief that what he was doing had a purpose and that purpose moved him to greatness.

I don’t know what to summarize here. I honestly don’t know what’s expected of me. I don’t work well with plans traditionally. Since my time in The Marine Corps and even before then, I’ve worked well just “winging it” I have to restructure my entire outlook in order to do this kind of thing professionally and it terrifies me. I should be excited to take the next step, to move boldly in a new and exciting profession, instead I find myself on the precipice, too scared to take that fateful step away from the baseball diamond into obscurity.

I don’t know how best to describe my plan, I don’t know how to articulate clearly what I intend, nor has that ever been my strength. My best stories have never come out of planning but out of a passion to get it out of me. Words pour from my brain easily enough, it’s the marketing and selling and packaging that I’m no good at. In a perfect world, I’d scribble my drivel on a piece of paper and hand it to a person far more qualified than myself to market it. I’d be happy sitting in a dark corner with a cup of coffee and a stack of comic books, scrawling out my nonsense for my own eyes, but that kind of jazz doesn’t bring home the bacon.

What I can tell you is that I’m a hard worker. I don’t always do it the right way but I get the work done. I’m trying, and I’m trying hard, to it all correctly and to dot every “I” and cross every “t” but there is just no way I can aptly summarize my plan for profession.

The best I can say is that I’m going to do my thing to the best of my ability. I’m going to ask for help from those that can give it. What follows is a road map, a guideline that shows me some of the key points to look for when I ask for help. I can only hope that those along the way will be as passionate as I am. This collection of my work makes it easier to move past those little white rocks into Iowa.