The Career Life Coaching Newsletter

These are pondering type questions. It may take some time to answer them. Review the list and answer the Q’s you find easiest first. If you don’t have an answer the first time you read a Q just skip it and come back to it in a few days.

Clue No. 1: What do you love to do? Hobbies, interests, volunteer activities-- these are often indicators of your gifts and talents.

Clue No. 2: What activities are you engaged in when you feel like you doing what you are “meant to do” or that you lose track of time when you are doing it?

Clue No. 3: What do you naturally do well? What actions are easy for you? (ex: writing stories, researching on the internet, fixing things, analyzing trends, organizing events, managing money, remembering facts, “seeing” memories in your mind, teaching, inventing things, improving performance of others etc.)

Clue No. 4: What are 5 things in your life past or present, which you are most proud of or feel were your most successful accomplishments?

Clue No. 5: Is there a cause, a movement, or an idea that you feel committed to and passionate about?

Clue No. 6: What do you feel are the most valuable or important things you have learned through your life experiences so far? Are there some memories of times when you experienced a breakthrough realization? Can you describe what you were doing when you had an “ah ha” moment?

Clue No. 7: Looking back over your life up to now, do you see any repeating incidents, problems or difficulties? (ex: You continue to attract or be attracted to co-dependent or otherwise dysfunctional relationships or you have left or been terminated from the same types of jobs or work environments)

Clue No. 8: What do you daydream or fantasize about doing? (this doesn’t have to be realistic, don’t censor yourself here)

Clue No. 9: Can you think of a time when you were watching or reading about another person’s accomplishment(s) and wished you could do that? Do you feel yearnings from time to time to do something, even if you cannot define what it is?

Clue No. 10: Is there a sense that you have things yet to do? From the perspective of being at the end of your life and looking back, what will it feel like if you never attempt to do these things/what will your life be incomplete without doing?

Clue No. 11: What are 3 things would you do if you knew you could not fail and money was not an issue?

Clue No. 12: What things do you want to be remembered for? How will you have contributed to the world?