1. Choose Your Top Jobs or
Work Situations
Write a short list of jobs you might like to try or
work situations you might want to create. (If you need help finding
out what kind of things you would enjoy, try Exercise:
Explore Your Life Passions and Sources of Joy.)
2. Create a "Try It On"
Scenario
For each of your top ideal jobs or work situations:
"Try it on" and see how it fits by writing a paragraph as
if you are already doing this kind of work. Write a scenario that describes
what it would feel like to do this for a living, and how you imagine
the experience. You might start with something like...
"I wake up in the morning
eager to start on my work for the day, and to greet the wonderful
people I work with. When I arrive at work, I sink into the peaceful
silence of my sunny office as a gentle breeze of fresh air ruffles
the papers on my desk. I especially enjoy my relationship with my
supervisor, and the way she relates to me as a real person and communicates
in a respectful way."
Pay attention to how each scenario feels when you're
writing it... is it fun, scary, boring? Is it realistic to a reasonable
extent? When you have finished writing all your scenarios, set them
aside for a day or so.
3. Take Action
After a day or more, pull out the scenarios you wrote
and read them again. For the ones that feel good to you - the ones that
make you feel peaceful with yourself and happy or excited - start looking
into them more seriously to find out what you would need to do to create
those kind of work situations in your life (explore more about them
on the web, talk with people already doing that work, read specialty
magazines in that area, etc.)
