Take ten minutes to picture yourself living any one of the Life Design Models for Double Agents. Each of them is described somewhere in the chapter. What would be great about it? What would it be missing for you?
- The Telecommuting Model
- The Schoolteacher Model
- The Farmer Model
- The Seasonal Model
- The Parallel Lives Model
If you are an unsatisfied Double Agent, you might want to do this for each of them.
Now do the same, for ten minutes, with one of the careers for Double Agents.
- Replaceable jobs
- Independent work
- Highly paid short-term work
- Jobs with built-in travel
- The Good Enough job
- Your own small business
If you are an unsatisfied Double Agent, take some time to create a Backward Planning Flowchart for moving toward one of these careers.
Write in your Daybook how each of these felt and what great ideas came up while you were daydreaming about them. In a new comment on this page, tell us which ones you tried on and what you discovered about them and about yourself. After you share your experience, read the rest of the comments and reply to a few, because praise makes us brave, and some of us may now be ready for a big change.
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I’m trying to start a low-investment business that allows for telecommuting and an irregular schedule, but I’m not making that my highest priority. I’m thinking a lot about trying to have a more organized house and give my kids and myself what I always wanted. I don’t know if I can do it, but I want to try before doing something I think I can do (advance the business idea). I’ve gotten serious about it at times. Reading this book has me thinking about making it a bigger focus with less guilt. Perhaps that qualifies as a Double Agent.