Get The Job You Want, Even When No One's Hiring: Take Charge of Your Career, Find a Job You Love, and Earn What You Deserve

Chapter 23. The Ideal Workday Strategy

This is a very powerful and personal exercise, which will help you explore and then clearly define what an ideal workday looks and feels like, and how you might experience it on a moment-by-moment basis. Once you've vividly imagined the details of this day on paper, you'll be much better prepared to create it for yourself in real life.

Read over the following example and then take at least one hour of quiet time to write down your ideal workday. Your aim should be to create as much detail as you need to generate a clear and specific picture in your mind of the day's events, activities, people, environments, schedules, structures—and your experiences ofeach of these factors.

So block out some time and put some real energy into this exercise. Take a relaxinghot bath, go for a walk in the park, sit under a tree, enjoy a glass of wine by the fireplace. Do whatever it takes to visit that inner place where you can reflect and really imagine both the broad outline and specific details of a workday that would be truly ideal for you!

The purpose of this exercise is to elicit the qualitative aspects of a work life that would create the best fit and the most day-to-day satisfaction for you—acknowledging the fact that not every day can be ideal, but that in an overall sense, this would be the best possible outcome of your career transition.

The main point of this exercise is that you must first get crystal clear on exactly what your ideal workday would look ...