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Pursuing Your Passions

Pursuing Your Passions. Julie Yindra & Jill Caruso SBA National Conference Cincinnati, OH June 2010. What I Care About. Describe 5 things about the world that make you crazy. ______________________________________ ______________________________________

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Pursuing Your Passions

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  1. Pursuing Your Passions Julie Yindra & Jill Caruso SBA National Conference Cincinnati, OH June 2010

  2. What I Care About Describe 5 things about the world that make you crazy. • ______________________________________ • ______________________________________ • ______________________________________ • ______________________________________ • ______________________________________

  3. What Would I Change? If you were all powerful, what 3 specific things about the world would you change? 1.___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 3. __________________________________________ __________________________________________

  4. What Are You Good At? List 3 things you are naturally good at without much effort or practice 1.__________________________________________ 2. __________________________________________ 3.___________________________________________

  5. What Am I Good At? • Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed. • Sydney SmithEnglish essayist (1771 - 1845)

  6. What Do I Enjoy? • The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. • Richard Bach _Author, “Jonathan Livingston Seagull

  7. Knowing My Weaknesses • List 3 things that you don’t seem to be able to be very good at, no matter how hard you work at it. 1.___________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________ 3.___________________________________________

  8. Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money. • William Lyon Phelps

  9. What’s in My Way? List 3 things about you that you think keep you from achieving more in your life. 1. ________________________________________ 2. ________________________________________ 3. ________________________________________

  10. “The Flow” • It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life. • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, 1990

  11. Doing What We Love Describe 2 times when you were engaged in an activity, and completely lost track of time. What were you doing? • __________________________________________________________________________________ 2. __________________________________________ __________________________________________

  12. “The Perfect Job” If there were no obstacles, list and describe the 3 jobs you would most like to have: 1.___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 2.___________________________________________ ___________________________________________ 3.___________________________________________ ___________________________________________

  13. What Are My Limitations? From the previous slide of perfect jobs, remove any that you know you can’t do. What’s left? ___________________________________________ ___________________________________________

  14. How Can I Get There? • List 3 things you can do in the next year that can help you be able to do what you want to do most? • 1. ________________________________________ • 2. ________________________________________ • 3_________________________________________

  15. Who Can Help? • Name 2 people who can help you achieve your goals by making you accountable for your steps, monitoring your progress and offering feedback. • 1___________________________________ • 2.___________________________________ • 3.___________________________________

  16. Finding Success, Fulfillment The key to finding success and fulfillment in your life’s work is finding a perfect balance between what you care about, what you are good at, what you feel a need to change, and what you perceive as your purpose. Keep in mind that “what you do” and “how you make a living” may not be the same thing.

  17. My Legacy • What do you want people to remember about you? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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