What Lights You Up?

8Develop Your Three Ps

“Just go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.”

—Barbara Sher

THIS IS ONE of my favorite parts of the process and one that will help you to become very strategic, intentional, and proactive about your job search. With this approach, you will not be waiting around for a position to open, or scouring the job openings online praying for a match as one would do in a traditional job search. Instead, you will create a list that will target exactly which company you would like to work for. Essentially, you are flipping your job search inside out.

Here is where the magic starts to take shape and you begin to design your future and act in a way that will direct you right towards the results that you are looking for.

Let’s dive in! Take out your trusted notebook, and you can also use the worksheets in the back of this book. The first step as you start to think about creating the target list of companies that you are interested in is to keep an open mind and to cast a wide net. Write down every company you can think of that you might want to work for and keep going, make it as robust as possible, and you will narrow it down later as you gather more information about each organization.

On this list, you will start to identify companies or organizations that you may have admired for a while or that you may have recently found intriguing online or in a conversation. This process will involve a fair ...