n management) to go for a run. I also remember too many lunch hours spent in drab conference rooms, working with others while eating unhealthy food. I can remember thinking how terrible this was for my system.

How long will your work day be?

How long will you work each day? What will you do after work? Who will you spend your time with after work? This is all part of the design of your perfect vocational day. How will your evenings go? Who will you spend your evenings with? It’s so important to h

Have you ever thought about what your perfect work would be? How about the pattern of a typical work day for the rest of your life? What daily routine would get you excited and bring joy and happiness to your work?

This didn’t come with the job description

The problem with job descriptions is that they are defined by someone else. They rarely take into consideration what brings you fulfillment.

How do I get started?

Whether you work for yourself or someone else, it is critical to start with the idea of what would be just perfect for you. For example, when would you get up in the morning? Once up, what would your morning routine be? Would you start your day exercising, with a little run, or perhaps some yoga or meditation? Or would you make breakfast first instead? Would you eat alone or with others? Who would they be?

What would you wear to your work?

Sweats, suit, shorts? What would be just perfect for you? I’m sure by now you’re thinking, “What does all of this have to do with my job? After all, I go to my job and I’m stuck with the rest of the day based on how much time is left.”

Yes, that is the traditional way of looking at your work. For those over you 40, I’m proposing a radical new way of looking at your work. You get to design your entire day around the work YOU want to do instead of just the limited time left over after an empty and meaningless day at the office.

Where would you go?

Where would you go for your work? What would be perfect for you? Would you like to work from home, or would you prefer to work outdoors? Would you prefer to work alone or with others? Maybe you would rather drive a short distance to a small office and work with a small group of other people. Or perhaps you would enjoy working with hundreds of others around you in a large organization.

How about lunch?

When will you eat lunch? Where will you eat lunch? Who will you eat lunch with on a typical day? Back in my corporate days, I remember sneaking out at lunch (I was in management) to go for a run. I also remember too many lunch hours spent in drab conference rooms, working with others while eating unhealthy food. I can remember thinking how terrible this was for my system.

How long will your work day be?

How long will you work each day? What will you do after work? Who will you spend your time with after work? This is all part of the design of your perfect vocational day. How will your evenings go? Who will you spend your evenings with? It’s so important to ha

with the idea of what would be just perfect for you. For example, when would you get up in the morning? Once up, what would your morning routine be? Would you start your day exercising, with a little run, or perhaps some yoga or meditation? Or would you make breakfast first instead? Would you eat alone or with others? Who would they be?

What would you wear to your work?

Sweats, suit, shorts? What would be just perfect for you? I’m sure by now you’re thinking, “What does all of this have to do with my job? After all, I go to my job and I’m stuck with the rest of the day based on how much time is left.”

Yes, that is the traditional way of looking at your work. For those over you 40, I’m proposing a radical new way of looking at your work. You get to design your entire day around the work YOU want to do instead of just the limited time left over after an empty and meaningless day at the office.

Where would you go?

Where would you go for your work? What would be perfect for you? Would you like to work from home, or would you prefer to work outdoors? Would you prefer to work alone or with others? Maybe you would rather drive a short distance to a small office and work with a small group of other people. Or perhaps you would enjoy working with hundreds of others around you in a large organization.

How about lunch?

When will you eat lunch? Where will you eat lunch? Who will you eat lunch with on a typical day? Back in my corporate days, I remember sneaking out at lunch (I was in management) to go for a run. I also remember too many lunch hours spent in drab conference rooms, working with others while eating unhealthy food. I can remember thinking how terrible this was for my system.

How long will your work day be?

How long will you work each day? What will you do after work? Who will you spend your time with after work? This is all part of the design of your perfect vocational day. How will your evenings go? Who will you spend your evenings with? It’s so important to h

ith my job? After all, I go to my job and I’m stuck with the rest of the day based on how much time is left.”

Yes, that is the traditional way of looking at your work. For those over you 40, I’m proposing a radical new way of looking at your work. You get to design your entire day around the work YOU want to do instead of just the limited time left over after an empty and meaningless day at the office.

Where would you go?

Where would you go for your work? What would be perfect for you? Would you like to work from home, or would you prefer to work outdoors? Would you prefer to work alone or with others? Maybe you would rather drive a short distance to a small office and work with a small group of other people. Or perhaps you would enjoy working with hundreds of others around you in a large organization.

How about lunch?

When will you eat lunch? Where will you eat lunch? Who will you eat lunch with on a typical day? Back in my corporate days, I remember sneaking out at lunch (I was in management) to go for a run. I also remember too many lunch hours spent in drab conference rooms, working with others while eating unhealthy food. I can remember thinking how terrible this was for my system.

How long will your work day be?

How long will you work each day? What will you do after work? Who will you spend your time with after work? This is all part of the design of your perfect vocational day. How will your evenings go? Who will you spend your evenings with? It’s so important to h

d you like to work from home, or would you prefer to work outdoors? Would you prefer to work alone or with others? Maybe you would rather drive a short distance to a small office and work with a small group of other people. Or perhaps you would enjoy working with hundreds of others around you in a large organization.

How about lunch?

When will you eat lunch? Where will you eat lunch? Who will you eat lunch with on a typical day? Back in my corporate days, I remember sneaking out at lunch (I was in management) to go for a run. I also remember too many lunch hours spent in drab conference rooms, working with others while eating unhealthy food. I can remember thinking how terrible this was for my system.

How long will your work day be?

How long will you work each day? What will you do after work? Who will you spend your time with after work? This is all part of the design of your perfect vocational day. How will your evenings go? Who will you spend your evenings with? It’s so important to h

n management) to go for a run. I also remember too many lunch hours spent in drab conference rooms, working with others while eating unhealthy food. I can remember thinking how terrible this was for my system.

How long will your work day be?

How long will you work each day? What will you do after work? Who will you spend your time with after work? This is all part of the design of your perfect vocational day. How will your evenings go? Who will you spend your evenings with? It’s so important to have support and love and downtime after your work ends each day. Coming home, instead, to someone who does not support the work you love will drain you and you’ll have less energy for your quest for vocational happiness and for the experience of life itself.

How will your evenings go?

When will you eat dinner? Who will you be with at dinner on a typical day? What will you do after dinner? What does your evening look like? Will you spend the evening alone, with others, or a combination of the two? Your evenings are an important part of your perfect vocational day. This again, is something most employers don’t care at all about, unless you are spending your evenings at the office, of course! This is the difference between creating the perfect work for you, and just dragging yourself home after a long day at the office and collapsing on the couch. When you do just a job, the quality of your downtime suffers as you worry about the next day of work.

What about sleep?

At the end of your perfect vocational day, when will you go to sleep? How will you go to sleep? What nightly ritual will you follow before bed? A little yoga, a warm bath, light reading, television, or intimacy with someone you love?

What’s perfect for me?

You must keep asking yourself this question, because no one else will do it for you. Be careful as you design your perfect vocational day, because you will indeed start to move towards it. Make sure you really know just what you want.

Typical job searching is all backwards

Most people look for jobs that are available with little thought to all the other hours of their days. The typical job description only covers the requirements of the job. I have never seen one that covers whether you should exercise or eat a big breakfast. The point is: it’s critical to design what you want BEFORE you go looking for it.

Now you get to play by new rules

After many years of playing the work game the traditional way, now you get to change the rules. When you design th