Discovering new hobbies 4

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We're on part four of our nine part series on using the flower exercise from the book What Color is Your Parachute to help us identify hobbies that we may enjoy. We're on the third petal of the flower right now. We did the first petal which was what type of people do we want to spend our time with. The second petal was what sort of environment or what places would we like to engage in our hobby in. And the third part is what skills do we want to leverage or learn to support this new hobby. So we want to ask ourselves do we want to learn a new skill as part of this hobby or do we want to leverage the skill we already have or maybe do we want to augment a skill that we currently have. So using my appliance repair hobby I like that I'm augmenting my repair skills. So like I've never fixed a washing machine before I started repairing and donating appliances. I'd fixed a lot of dryers but I've never fixed a washing machine before so that was pretty interesting. And so I'm augmenting current skills but there are some hobbies that I've been considering which are going to require entirely new skills. So the question is what skills do I want to leverage to help me learn how to repair my washing machine. Because I don't want to just use a machine and get a new one. I want to be able to have a new one for myself. And that's why I'm using the appliance repair hobby. So I'm going to ask myself what skills, what existing skills do you want to leverage or augment or and I guess are there any new skills that you would like to develop as a part of creating and sort of building out this new hobby. So you want to spend a lot of time jotting down skills that you enjoy, skills that you feel like you're strong in, skills that when you engage in those skills, you, if you're a beginner, you might want to engage in those skills. So I'm going to ask myself, if I could get a new hobby, I'm going to it feels rewarding and whether or not you want to build on those skills and whether you want to develop new skills. And if you want to develop new skills, what are those new skills? And it could be as broad as I want to do, learn to do more things with my hands. I want to repair things. I want to build things, whatever it is. But you want to just start a list of the skills that you have that you would like to employ in your hobby, skills that you would like to develop and, and skills that you would like to create for your new hobby. So the third pedal of the exercise is skills. So we want to make a nice big laundry list of everything relating to skills for the new hobby.