#74: How to Create Your Ideal Life

Intellectual Freedom Podcast

Fun fact of the day, Gallop conducted a poll and uncovered that out of the world‘s one billion full-time workers, an astronomical 85% are unhappy in their jobs. The usual suspects are present in the survey: domineering boss, annoying colleagues, type of work sucks, the commute, or no opportunity for growth. We have heard all of these before. Most of us have experienced them firsthand. In Episode #74 of the podcast, I don‘t discuss shedding one crappy job for another crappy job. Instead, I want you to deep by considering one very Stoic-Esque philosophy question. WHAT WOULD YOUR IDEAL DAY LOOK LIKE? Once you nail down an answer to this question, then you can boldly proceed from there and take practical steps to live out your ideal day in your career. It is incredible what can happen once you clarify what you truly want to do, as after you do this, you can put an action plan into place to make it happen. Maybe it is a brand new shiny 9-5. Possibly it involves some combination of part-time, freelancer-type gigs, or maybe even one of the crowds of nomadic workers. But, you can do it! You are limited by two things: (1) owning your future and (2) investing the mental energy to solidify what you genuinely find rewarding. Then you can map out the career path.

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