So I started my next chapter in the Your Dream Life Starts Here book today. Karlsson suggests you do one chapter a week so I'm sticking to that for now. This chapter was about making a list of fabulous people you'd like to meet and then thinking about why you want to meet them and how you could possibly make it happen. I set my timer for 10 minutes and came up with a list of 25 people I would love to meet. Not one of them seems very likely but I think that's part of the point of the exercise. She also shares a really inspirational story about a lady, Dr Tererai Trent, who has written a book I've now added to my wish list.
Karlsson also suggests you ask friends and family what their dreams are. So if anyone fancies sharing a dream with me, I'd love to hear all the things you dream of doing and who is on your list of people you'd like to meet.
Next I think I'm going to write a list of amazing Karens I want to meet and perhaps reach out to them and interview them to show that Karens around the world, although we might be mostly middle-aged, are far from the crazy racist, bad-haircut women portrayed on social media. I have just joined a Karens united group on facebook (yep there is one) and perhaps I should join forces with the British Karen who has started a petition to stop the word Karen being used as a slur. So far she has 125 signatures and needs 100,000 before it can go to parliament. Even the BBC did a brief podcast about how not to be a Karen. Perhaps I should add changing the Karen-meme stereotype to my list of dreams I want to accomplish. I doubt it will pay me, but it might bring me a little satisfaction along the way.
I think I'm getting a little side-tracked from the actual job hunt here. Back to more practical things tomorrow.
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