7 - Plan Your Possible Lives
Summary
- Take an assessment of your strengths. Get feedback from other people about your strengths, you might be surprised! But get really focused on what you're good at where your talents are and then start strengthening those talents.
- Know what problems you're trying to solve in your life. Make sure that they are solvable, and that you're taking a framework of it, that makes it possible to solve it. Make sure that you don't have learned helplessness and just get defeated right away. Make sure you take a new look at what's going on and coming up with the right problem to solve.
- Identify those flow moments and peak moments and also really bad moments and analyze them with the AEIOU method.
- List your values of work and home life. Are you getting the right money? Impact? Expression? Value? Where is it that your life values and your work values intersect?
- Create three, five-year possible lives. Research them determine what would be the best life for you. Ask questions of experts or people in that field. interview people in that life and try out small experiments to see if you can prove that these would actually be good ideas for you.
- Remember, you can't fail when you live a life of curiosity and experiments. There's always lessons to be learned whether they fail or succeed.
Challenge
Write two 250-word paragraphs about what your work view is and your life view. What are your values, your requirements, your satisfactions? What makes you happy? So, you know where your first options to design your life will come from?
Strength Finder 2.0
https://store.gallup.com/c/en-us/assessments
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
https://designingyour.life/
https://www.outsideonline.com/2373876/three-steps-happiness