The Choice Driven Lifestyle - One of Your Biggest Choices

Greg Gagne |

Thinking about a Choice Driven Lifestyle where work is an option?

Important to think about what comes next...


Knowing What Will Replace Work

One of the biggest challenges in this time of transition is discovering who you are without your job title. It’s been part of your identity for decades, but when it’s gone, who are you?

The Identity Shift

Leaving full-time employment removes the structure from which most days have been built. In this familiar cadence, you play a certain role: “I am a teacher,” “I am an engineer,” “I’m a CEO.” Those labels are associated with certain patterns. It’s meetings, deadlines, and performance management.
The label of your job also provides an easy, automatic answer when someone asks what you do.
A Choice Driven life requires a new answer. Not a replacement title, but clarity on how your time will be spent and what will give your days shape.
The best time to figure out what’s next is while you still have the safety net of your current role. But you can prepare at any time. The point is to avoid stepping into a wide-open calendar and hoping purpose appears on its own.

Planning the Day Like It’s Saturday, Every Day

What if tomorrow was Saturday? Imagine you could craft the day exactly how you like. What would your perfect day look like? Craft it hour by hour. Don’t worry about money or logistics. Just create your dream day.
As you map it out, look for patterns. Do you want quiet mornings or social mornings? Long blocks of time or variety? Are you energized by learning, building, helping, moving, or creating? How much structure do you actually want?

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