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Fearless Career Change

your home to work? Are any children around that you have to get
off to school? Do you have a maid or cook? Is a spouse, significant
other, or roommate also getting ready for work?
How do you get to work? What kind of car do you drive? Do
you have a chauffeur? Is your vehicle racy or practical, an SUV, an
economy, or a luxury car? What color is it? How far away, ideally, is
your workplace from where you live? Do you work at home? If not,
how long is the commute to work? What are you thinking about as
you transport yourself to your job? Are you on a train, bus, or sub-
way, or are you walking or riding a bike? Are you listening to music,
news, books on tape, learning a foreign language while commuting
perhaps, or listening to motivational tapes?
Who is there when you get to work? How do they treat you?
Can you imagine something they might say? Are you alone? If not,
what is the quality of the interaction between you and others? Do
you feel respected, valued, liked, or loved? Imagine what you might
be saying to the others. How does your boss, if you have one, inter-
act with you? Are you the boss?
What is the mood? Is it serious or light? Exciting or serene?
Chaotic or orderly? Harmonious or tense? Do you feel this compa-
ny has a sense of integrity? Is is honest? Does it care about its
employees? Does it act in a morally upstanding way? Would you
feel proud to say you work there? How do you feel about yourself
when you are at your place of work doing what you’d ideally like
to be doing?
Do you have an office, a cubicle, a workstation, or are you
working outdoors? What, exactly, are you doing? Are you primarily
using your intellect, your body, your intuition, your emotions, or
some combination of all of them?
What do you love about what you are doing? Are you using
your gifts? Are you the head of the company, or might you be self-
employed? If the company has a hierarchy, where are you on the
ladder?
What, exactly, does your place of work look like? Are you in
a small, medium, or large company? Does your job require travel?
If so, where? Are you in an executive office, at a factory, in a lab-
oratory, at a school, on a movie set, at a hospital, in an airplane,
a retail store, or out of doors? Do you work from a car most of
the day?

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