Doing an inventory of oneself is often an exploration in limits, but knowing our limits opens doors to travel beyond our limits. As with most doors there are keys to opening the doors and a mind that asks questions, open-ended questions, will unlock doors to treasures we didn’t know we had.
Profiling WHO YOU ARE, as a profile is a valuable tool. Our profiles can often run our life. Be specific, spontaneous, and non-self-judgmental. step outside the box and note when something is sensitive. Write out your response to Life is?
· Life is _____________________________________________________________.
· Life is _____________________________________________________________.
· Life is _____________________________________________________________.
Skills I have:
Successes I have created:
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Past, current & future goals:
Current Challenges:
Any demons, forgiveness or unresolved issues?
What would you change, if anything about your life?
What I remember about my mother was:
What I remember about my father was:
My favorite teacher or mentor told me:
My friends tell me:
Have you found your ‘calling’ or purpose?
Briefly recreate yourself in the ‘best of all world.’
Check appropriate statements:
o I am a morning person
o I need a cup of coffee to get started
o Structure is important
o I am a fast-paced person
o I don’t like to say no
o I remember jokes
o I embarrass easily
o I can be animated in communication
o I got rhythm
o I remember words to songs
o I can paint and/or draw
o I can work late into the night
o I inspire people
o I would lie to keep from hurting someone
o I got answers
o I got questions
o I work well under pressure
o I make lists
o I like myself
o Appearance are important
o I smile at almost everyone
o I know how to relax
o “I can resist everything but temptation”
o I read my lists
o I delegate well
o I am a grateful person
o I can do thing ‘just for the hell of it’
o This is fun
Life is not a yes or no world, but a continuum.
The more we understand the continuums we exist upon the more flexibility we have in life. Creating more choices, greater freedoms, increased confidence. Life becomes a feedback loop. If our behavior works, repeat, if not, change.
Here are four continuums we all fall within.
1-Our motivational continuum from moving towards our goals to moving away from what we don’t want. Call it attraction & repulsion.
In speaking there are those whose motivation is to move away from the fear, and those who move toward greater skills.
Where do you see, feel, believe you are?
2- Worldview continuum. Those who believe in options or possibilities, and those who are procedural and love structure and rules. There is time for both.
Where do you see, feel, believe you are?
3-Proactive or reactive continuum. Are you an initiator or a wait and see? The proactive is motivated from inside, the reactor moved by what’s on the outside.
Where do you see, feel, believe you are?
4-Specific or general continuum. Do you look at life in specifics or in general terms? Big broad strokes, or small exactitudes?
Where do you see, feel, believe you are?
Prioritize-1 being least important.10 being most important.
