Hobbies

Transcript

So we've been working through an exercise known as the flower exercise from the book, What Color is Your Parachute? And we've gone through three of the petals of the flower, there are seven. And the first one was, what type of people do you like working with? What the second one is, what sort of environment do you like working in? And the third one is, what skills do you currently have? And the fourth one is going to be, what are your traits? So the difference between skills and traits, so skills are basically like verbs, things that you do, things that you're good at doing. Traits are like, I don't know, they're like adjectives, I guess. They're things that describe you. So a good example would be patient, inquisitive, impulsive, perceptive, persistent, creative. And so you want to create a nice big list of your traits, because your traits are going to have a lot to do with the types of hobbies that you'll find enjoyable. It wouldn't be a bad idea to actually get the book and go through these exercises. There's a bunch of exercises that help sort of determine, like he lists a bunch of traits, he lists a bunch of skills, he lists a bunch of abilities, and there are a bunch of things that he's going to have to do to help him. And so the first one is, what skills do you currently have? And then skills. And, um, and he has like little whiteboard exercises you can do. Um, if you, uh, if you want the book and you're a little tight on cash, just let me know, just message me or whatever. And I'll get you, I'll send you the Kindle version of it. Um, but it's a really, really good chapter. Like I said, in a previous, um, post, I, I don't know that the rest of the book like had that much for me, but the chapter on the flower exercise has been helpful, not only to me, but a lot of the people I've worked with throughout the years. Um, so it wouldn't be a bad idea to check the book out. He actually has a version of the parachute book for retiring. I just haven't read it yet. Um, I've got it in my library. I just haven't started it. I'll do a review on it once, once I give it a good, uh, good listen, or I think it's a read. I don't think there's an audio version of it, but, um, I'll let you know how that goes. But, uh, start on that laundry list of your traits and get a nice big long list of your traits. An example for me is, um, like somebody mentioned in one of the comments that, uh, they help, uh, people use their computer. I think they might've said they help senior citizens use it. I don't remember, but, um, I don't have any patients, so that wouldn't work for me. So, you know, if I were creating a list of my traits and one of my traits was impatient, um, I would probably take helping people. I don't know if that's a good thing. I don't know if that's a good thing. People like do things right off, right off the list right away. Um, but if you are a person who is patient and you'd like to help people and you like working in a one-on-one environment, you know, that, that would probably jump right out. So, uh, create as big a list as you can. And just like with all the other lists that we're doing in the various pedals of the exercise, come back to certain areas as you're, uh, as you're thinking about this, and you can always build on these lists as you go. Good luck. And, uh, let me know if you discovered interesting about yourself when you were itemizing your traits