Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the New Corner Office,
Speaker 1: the podcast where we share strategies for thriving in the
Speaker 1: new world of work, where location and hours are more
Speaker 1: flexible than in the past. Today's tip is to make
Speaker 1: a work bucket list. This is a list of professional
Speaker 1: experiences you'd like to have sometime during your career. Coming
Speaker 1: up with such a list can help you dream big
Speaker 1: and see possibilities. Long time listeners have probably heard me
Speaker 1: suggest making a list of a hundred dreams. This exercise
Speaker 1: comes from career coach Caroline Sneeza Levine. It is a
Speaker 1: completely unedited list of anything you'd like to do in life.
Speaker 1: Go to New Zealand, publish a book, learn to speak Spanish,
Speaker 1: make a perfect sefla, read all the works of Tony Morrison.
Speaker 1: Pay off your mortgage before you turn fifty. As you
Speaker 1: make the list, you learn about what you like, and
Speaker 1: as you try things, you learn what you might be
Speaker 1: good at and what you'd like to spend more time doing.
Speaker 1: I love this idea, but when I have groups start
Speaker 1: making a list of a hundred dreams and workshops, I've
Speaker 1: noticed something. The work category is often a wee bit
Speaker 1: sparse and it makes sense. The first things we think
Speaker 1: about tend to be personal or family, like seeing the
Speaker 1: Eiffel Tower or running a marathon. The list of a
Speaker 1: hundred dreams is about things we want to spend more
Speaker 1: time doing, and many people do not want to spend
Speaker 1: more time at work. That said, there are always things
Speaker 1: within the category of work that we do want to
Speaker 1: spend more time doing. Creating a work bucket list can
Speaker 1: nudge just to spend some time thinking about those things
Speaker 1: and not just about that vacation to Hawaii that we
Speaker 1: want to take. So today, get started on that work
Speaker 1: bucket list. You can start with jobs you'd potentially like
Speaker 1: to have in your organization, in another organization, as a
Speaker 1: part time gig, or in a completely different industry. Don't
Speaker 1: censor yourself, because this is where things get fun. Think
Speaker 1: about organizations you might like to work for or with
Speaker 1: ones you admire or that seem like they have an
Speaker 1: amazing culture or great perks. Then think about people you'd
Speaker 1: like to work with. Feel free to list celebrities if
Speaker 1: you want to, mean why not, and then also list
Speaker 1: people like your Jim buddy that you joke with about
Speaker 1: starting a business together. Maybe it's not such a joke,
Speaker 1: and wouldn't that be fun? Then think broadly, not just
Speaker 1: about what would go on your resume, but about work
Speaker 1: experiences you'd like to have. Maybe you want to manage
Speaker 1: people or lead a company. Maybe you want to start
Speaker 1: your own business. Maybe you want to work somewhere with
Speaker 1: a casual dress code. You might want to be part
Speaker 1: of a strategic planning process, or an expansion to a
Speaker 1: new city, or hiring a large number of new people,
Speaker 1: or launching a new product. Anything is fair game. Write
Speaker 1: it down. If you have an accountability partner, you might
Speaker 1: share your professional bucket list with this person. You might
Speaker 1: also share it with anyone else who you know will
Speaker 1: be excited and not critical. But you also don't have
Speaker 1: to share it if you don't want to. The point
Speaker 1: is to articulate these ideas for yourself. Not all will happen,
Speaker 1: and not all that you try will work out. You
Speaker 1: might learn after running a conference that you don't like
Speaker 1: running conferences. This is good to know. You won't waste
Speaker 1: time telling yourself in the future that you should seek
Speaker 1: out such opportunities. But some stuff might stick. You might
Speaker 1: learn that you have a knack for hiring really great people.
Speaker 1: You might discover a talent for writing, or get yourself
Speaker 1: fired up to send your resume into that company you
Speaker 1: keep wondering about. And who knows, maybe you will do
Speaker 1: a project with one of those celebrities that you mentioned.
Speaker 1: There are all kinds of opportunities in this world. Creating
Speaker 1: a work bucket list can help us identify the ones
Speaker 1: we are interested in and seek them out too. If
Speaker 1: you create a work bucket list, I'd love to hear
Speaker 1: about it. You can write me at Laura at Laura
Speaker 1: vander Kim dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to succeeding in the New
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