Jemma Spike

And the thing is, is that this is the time in your life when you are and can be the most resilient.

So exiting or leaving the dream job means that like during this time means that you're going to have as many and the most years you'll probably ever have to come back to it if it does end up being the thing that you love.

But it's also the time that you're going to have the most years to just explore and to figure things out.

This is deeply anecdotal, right?

I don't know if people who do this are happy.

I can't give you the promise.

But anecdotally, the people I hear from and the people I see who are kind of at the precipice of turning 40 or turning 30 who feel the most unsure about their careers are actually those who stayed or who seemingly have the most stable careers because they've been in the same job for a very long time.

And it's very hard to leave those environments.

But I think you, again, just owe it to yourself to just be like, what else could hit me?

What other things could happen to me if I just let my life and my weeks and my months be open to them?

Okay, number nine.

I need you to make a loose and aspirational plan for your life.

This is what I call the great life plan.

Very easily marketable name.

This is not a five-year plan.

I kind of hate those.

It is not a step-by-step master plan for your entire life.

It is just a delusionally optimistic vision for what you want your life to be in 20 years, 50 years, 15 years, if everything went according to plan.

The goal of this is not for it to go according to plan.

The goal of it is actually for it not to all come true.