Discovering new hobbies part 3 using the flower ex…

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We're on part three of our nine part series on using the flower exercise from the book What Color is Your Parachute to determine what are some of the discrete attributes of hobbies that we might enjoy. In the previous part, part two, we covered the first petal of the flower which is people. Who do we want to interact with and engage with? In this exercise, we're doing the second petal of the flower which is what they call workplace conditions. So where do you want to do the activity? And you know it's things like in a big open indoor space, outdoors, in a well-lighted area, in a dimly lighted area, in potentially negative weather conditions, and in a very cold weather. So what we want to do is only in perfect weather conditions. So you think about where do you want to engage in this hobby? For me, I love being outside, I love driving, and I love being in the shop, my workshop up there. So those three made one of my new hobbies really easy which is I go around and I pick up non-functional appliances. I fix them and I donate them to Habitat for Humanity. I give them to Habitat for Humanity because very few people in that organization are getting rich off of the efforts of volunteers and those who donate. They score almost a perfect score with Charity Navigator. So I'm really happy to be contributing to that particular cause. But you know thinking about the environment that I want to work in. I want to work. being outside. I like driving and I like working in my shop. So those are three easy ones. Now there's other environments I like too, but those were really easy and they led me, some of those things led me to this being a good hobby. So what I like to do is I'll drive, you know, sometimes an hour or more. And a lot of times these appliances are just on the curb. So they'll say washer and dryer do not work. They're on the curb near this address. And I'll go do what I call curb burgling, which is just pull up, load everything in my truck, pull away. And it's just nice because it kind of scratches a lot of itches. So you want to think like, what's the environment in which you'd like to do your activity? It doesn't have to be just one. You might say, I like to be outdoors, but I don't like to be in cold weather. I like to be outdoors. But I liked the challenge of adverse weather. I like to be outside, but I only want it to be beautiful weather, things like that. You know, one of the things, if you watch my videos, you know, I enjoy it. I like to be outdoors, but I only want it to be beautiful weather. Things like that. And so one of the ways I'm trying to dovetail that with seeing the kids more is when I go out to see them during the cooler months here in Ohio, I'll rent a motorcycle out there and get a day or two of riding in and sort of extend my riding season. And you know, that scratches the being outside thing. And then another part of my personality type, which is I like to explore and discover. So when I ride a motorcycle, I always try and find new things. And I like to explore and discover. So when I ride a motorcycle, I always find new roads, new places I've never been before. So pedal number two is where do you want to do your hobby? And it doesn't have to be just one thing. Write down as much as you can. Just keep writing, keep writing and be ready to go back and revisit when you think of new things you hadn't thought of before. And just keep building on that list of where.