Career change

April 18th, 2009

Your ideal job - Your ideal life

We were all born to do something, career.

The following exercises are designed to help you gain a better understanding of the type of work you would most enjoy.

EXERCISE 1

Your ideal day

What would be your ideal day, imagine you have a free reign to define your ideal day what would it be?

Describe it now.

What exactly would you do from the minute you woke up until you went to bed? What would you do in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening?

Take some time now to think about your ideal day in detail.

Morning – Afternoon - Evening

EXERCISE 2
Your ideal life

What would your ideal life be like? Work through the following questions and see what answers you come up with.

  • Where would you live?
  • Where would you work?
  • Would you work for somebody or would you work for yourself?
  • Who would be with you?
  • What would you be doing?
  • Who would your friends be?
  • What would your house look like?
  • What would you look like?
  • What clothes would you wear?
  • What would you own?
  • What lifestyle would you live?
  • What car would you drive?
  • What food would you eat?
  • What qualities would you have as a person?
  • Would you cook or would you eat out?
  • What skills would you have?
  • What characteristics would you have?

EXERCISE 3
Lottery win

Winning the lottery

There is a very high chance you have already thought about this one, but this time think about it in terms of an activity you would like to do as a result of being financially independent.

There would only be so many tropical beaches you could lounge around on before you finally decided to look for something to give meaning to your life. You would still have 24 hours in a day to fill, and 7 days a week in which to keep busy after the initial euphoria wore off.

So indulge in this fantasy one more time.

Imagine if you won the lottery, how exactly would you spend your time?