Exploring Career Options – Odyssey Plans

There are multiple great paths in each of us. Use this activity modeled on the popular book, Designing Your Life, to ideate three alternative five-year plans.


Limiting Belief:
I need to make the perfect career choice.

Reframe:
I have multiple great lives and options within me. I get to choose which to begin building toward next.

Source: Burnett, William, and David J Evans. Designing Your Life : How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.


Access the resource for a worksheet with detailed instructions and space to ideate three alternative plans:

What if option one disappeared?


Example of an Odyssey Plan.
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