1. Review your historical good time journal and note activities in which you were engaged, energized, and in flow.
2. Choose an activity that you were engaged in, an activity that you felt highly energized from, and an activity you did that brought you into flow.
3. Create a mind map for each chosen activity.
   1. Set your time for three to five minutes.
   2. Get three large papers.
   3. Do this exercise fast and don't censor yourself.
   4. Write the chosen activity at the middle of the paper.
   5. Write down five to six things related to the activity.
   6. Write three or four words related to the each word in the second ring.
   7. Repeat this process until you have three or four rings.
4. Look at the outer ring of each mind map and intuitively pick three things that jump out at you.
5. Combine these three items into a possible job description. The job has to be fun and interesting to you and helpful to someone else. It doesn't have to be practical or profitable.
6. Give a name to the role.
7. Draw a napkin sketch of it.

The whole point was to defer judgment and quiet your internal problem-finding critic. If you never did, you probably found the exercise pretty silly.

Take another look at your work, and find out if you can see it in a new light, or come back and try again in a few days.

To do

• Write this in your own words.

References

Burnett, Bill, and Dave Evans. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life. Alfred A. Knopf, 2016.