Develop Your Creativity Instantly in 12 Minutes: Find Yourself 12 Micro-Careers NOW!
I am creating 12 doodle exercises in 12 days. This series will be made of one-minute articles that will help you quickly generate ideas and unleash your creativity. This is the second article (the first one is here).
Get your pencil and notebook. Draw a flower with 12 petals, like the one below. Here is your challenge:
Your goal is to enrich your life beyond your imagination. For this goal, you will use divergent thinking and create a lot of ideas. You will think of 12 parallel careers. You can include your current job, but you need to think of 11 other careers, possibilities, or projects that will enrich your life.
- Do you have any other passions or curiosities you would like to pursue?
- How can you diversify and multiply your income streams?
- How can you combine different areas or disciplines?
- Can you pursue other interesting careers that would be nice to have?
- Can you think of some creative paths?
- Can you think of content creation jobs, such as blogging, writing, video making, or social media?
- Can you use your expertise and skills in your field elsewhere (such as consulting, teaching, speaking, writing a book, coaching, etc.)?
What kind of career paths or possibilities would be exciting for you? What are you curious about? Can you think of alternative jobs or micro-careers that you will enjoy? Include possibilities that are radically different from your current job.
For example, here is how I did this exercise:
- First and foremost, I work full-time as an academic. I love my job and I will never change my career.
- Second, I would like to get back to my research career over the medium term by publishing cutting-edge articles in my discipline.
- Third, I have become a YouTuber and created more than 800 videos since the pandemic. I hope to continue this career in the long term.
- Fourth, I have also recently become a TikToker to understand speed, virality, global trends, and the Zeitgeist. I hope to mess around with TikTok and use it for learning and improvisation.
- Fifth, I will continue to develop my career as an online writer and blogger. My goal is to reach 1000 articles and 7K followers on Medium by the end of 2024.
- Sixth, I want to think and act like an entrepreneur and create multiple micro-entrepreneurship streams (including Airbnb, book writing, consultancy, digital products, etc.)
- Seventh, I want to develop my creative career and artist identity by doodling every day. I will spend a minimum of 20 minutes doodling and 40 minutes of notebook-keeping every day.
- Eighth, I want to continue improving myself as a top-notch international teacher and executive trainer. I want to develop high-quality workshops, training programs, and seminars that reach people from all walks of life.
- Ninth, I would like to develop a career as an inspirational speaker and coach to help individuals in their journeys of asset creation.
- Tenth, I would like to become an investor and develop a diverse portfolio of investments (crypto, NFTs, stocks, angel investing, venture capital, etc.)
- Eleventh, I would love to learn more about and experiment with entertainment and showbusiness. Perhaps this could involve stand-up comedy, acting, screenwriting, creative writing, storytelling, improv, etc.)
- Twelfth, I want to become a writer (fiction and non-fiction). I would like to write multiple books, templates, exercises, stories, blogs, and inspirational pieces.
It is your turn now. Do the exercise now — it will be very rewarding for you. In 12 minutes, you will create your 12 ideas. Write them on the flower petals.
I will continue this exercise series over 12 days. On each day, you receive a straightforward creative challenge of creating 12 ideas in 12 minutes.