This week I listened to a Harvard Business Review Webinar on Future of Work with Harvard professor, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury. We learned that ‘work from anywhere,’ can be a ‘perk’ companies offer employees. Dr. Raj began studying this concept years ago. He asked the listeners to imagine their dream job in the dream locale. He explained in the future, this could become a reality where remote work could happen from anywhere, allowing the employee to chose where they live: their dream locale.
This got me thinking about the recent studies on happiness. Researchers have found when we are simply following our dream, our happiness levels rise! Perhaps the company that we work for isn’t yet offering this ‘perk’ of work from anywhere; don’t let this stop you from following a dream! This can include simplicity. An example is, planting a container garden on the balcony of your apartment…something you didn’t think you could have because you don’t live in a house with a yard.
Let’s start 2021 with creating a ‘Bucket List.’ You could include a dream of working from anywhere one day. This is my dream.
With 2020 and COVID19, I stopped traveling. In my most recent post, where I shared the video taped for the Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego, CA; I explained this was pre-recorded and is being shown at the conference this week for a virtual audience. I have spent all week thinking how I would have been in San Diego if it had not been for COVID. This caused grief in me because I enjoy travel, and the trip would have been, ‘all expenses paid’ by the organizers. This is part of my ‘Bucket List’ and dream for 2021...to travel again safely and be with people safely! I know this looks like it is for kids...exactly...let's get in touch with our inner child and play. We need this at work...atleast I do....and I wanted to share and remind us play is good for our health physically and mentally!!! My dream is that we can have fun together as people with meaning and purpose.
What is your dream?