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Perfect Job - Business
I now want to share with you an amazingly powerful
method of helping you to realize what your dream job
might be. I am indebted to Barbara Sher author of "I
Could Do Anything If Only I Knew What It Was" for this
idea.

Before I explain this exercise, I want to give you an
example of a technique which has some merit, but is not
very effective. This is the sort of technique you'll
read about in books on life-planning, and I find it
very unsatisfactory.

Take a sheet of paper (yes, you can start groaning).
On the top of the paper write the words 'My Job From
Heaven.' Underneath this, write out exactly what the
title implies.

This is fantasy time, so let your imagination run riot.
You can design your own perfect fantasy job. Where will
you work? Who will you work with? In what sort of
environment? Doing what? What hours will you work? What
salary will you be paid? Is it a manual job? A creative
job? Just put down anything you can think of which
would make your working day blissful.

What do you think of that for an exercise?
Okay, it has its merits, but if you actually try to
complete this exercise you'll find it fairly difficult.
The reason is that the second you try to fantasize
about your ideal job, negative thoughts and
conditioning crowd your mind, effectively saying to
you: "Don't be silly! You can't have that! That would
be impossible. That's asking too much."

Now, and I hope you're ready for this...take another
blank sheet of paper and on the top of it write: 'My
Job From Hell.'

I want you to fill that sheet of paper with a detailed
description of your total job from hell. Describe the
nightmarish work environment, write in detail about the
crummy people you'll be working with, and the awful
tasks you'll be performing. I can guarantee that you
will hardly be able to stop writing. You will take a
ghoulish glee in putting down every awful detail.
You'll run out of paper and ink long before you run out
of ghastly details of that job.

This exercise gives you a fantastic opportunity to
glimpse your creative potential when you are not
running hard against the brakes of the subconscious
mind.

Please do this exercise, and don't only read about it.
You'll be quite stunned by its effect.
The next part of this exercise is to take your Job From
Hell and write the exact opposite of everything you
have put down.

For example if you have written "I work in a dark,
noisy, fume-filled factory, with loud pop music blaring
all day over speakers," you need to rewrite this as
follows: "I work in a light, quiet airy office."
Another example should suffice. If you wrote "Each day
is identical to the last, I produce an endless stream
of identical widgets, and never receive any praise or
thanks for my work," you need to rewrite this as
follows: "Each day I work on something different, no
two projects are the same and I receive a huge amount
of praise, admiration and respect for my work."
Get the idea?

What you are doing is using the 'Job From Hell' as a
method of bypassing the subconscious mind. Effectively,
you are finding out what you don't want, and reversing
it to produce your Job From Heaven.

When I sat down and used this technique, I was quite
surprised by the results. I found out things about
myself which I had not been aware of before.
Reading through my completed Job From Heaven (produced
by reversing my Job From Hell) I felt a thrill of
excitement running through me. Yes, this was exactly
what I wanted to be doing.

Try it yourself - you will be surprised!