The Perfect Day Exercise
What does your ideal day look like?
Before chasing more clients, more money or a better job, take a few minutes to work out what you actually want your life to look like. A free five-minute exercise for freelancers and creatives.
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Your ideal work
Question 1 of 7
What kind of work would you love to spend most of your time doing?
Imagine it is ten years from today. Nobody is checking, so answer like it is already true.
No answer is wrong, and you can change any of them before you download.
Your answers stay in this browser, on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere, and I cannot read them.
About this exercise
Whose idea it is, what it can tell you, and where your answers go.
Where this comes from
The exercise is from The Freelance Manifesto by Joey Korenman, who founded School of Motion. The idea is his: before you chase a better rate or a better client, write down the life you are supposedly chasing it for, because most people have never actually put it in words.
The questions here are my wording of that exercise, with somewhere to write and something to take away. If it is useful to you, the book is worth reading in full.
What it does, and what it does not
It gives you seven questions and keeps the rest of the page out of the way while you answer them. That is the whole mechanism.
It does not analyse you. Your blueprint is your own seven answers under seven headings, in the order you wrote them. There is no score, no type and no advice worked out from what you typed, because anything like that would be made up.
The money question is a target you set yourself. Writing a figure into a box does not earn it, and nothing here suggests otherwise.
What happens to your answers
They are saved in your own browser, on this device, so you can close the tab and come back to the question you were on. They are never sent to me or to anybody else, and I cannot read them.
The PDF is built in your browser too, from what is already on the screen. Nothing is uploaded to make it.
Clearing your site data, or pressing Start again at the bottom of the blueprint, removes them. On a shared computer, do that when you are done.
Know what the next year should look like?
If part of getting there is video somebody else has to make, tell me what you are planning and I will tell you what it takes.