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When You Are Ready, Opportunity Will Knock! CVM PD Day May 24, 2017 Dr. Barbara Roberts Executive Director, WorkLife Find Your Passion What do you love? What ignites your imagination? What kind of puzzles or problems capture your

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When You Are Ready, Opportunity Will Knock!

CVM PD Day May 24, 2017

  • Dr. Barbara Roberts

Executive Director, WorkLife

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Find Your Passion

  • What do you love?
  • What ignites your imagination?
  • What kind of puzzles or problems capture your

attention?

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Find Your Passion

  • List 10 things you love, that intrigue you or that you’re

never bored with

  • Choose the top 5, rank order them
  • How do you feel re the top 3 and what are now the

bottom 2?

  • Discuss
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Current values and goals

  • Ask yourself:

1) Why have you had your particular focus up to now? 2) Do you still value that focus and reason? 3) What personal and what community outcomes do you want your career to have?

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Your Personal Mission Statement

  • What kind of person do you want to be?
  • How will you act on your passionate interest to

be that person?

  • Say that in 1-3 sentences, that you can easily

remember.

  • Examples: “Remember who I am, as a healer and

teacher, a learner and seeker, a practitioner of compassion, a lover of beauty in myself, in others and in the world around me.”

  • Other example…
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Create your own mission statement

  • 1-3 sentences that capture essential, foundational

beliefs, values or goals

  • It is my personal mission in life to…
  • I base my decisions on… [the following

values/principles/goals…]

  • In my life, I want to be…
  • My life’s purpose is…
  • Other?
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Share your mission anonymously?

  • https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/

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What Skills Do I Have?

  • PollEv brainstorm list
  • https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/
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Your path…

  • Make a wish list of up to 3 areas you are or could be

passionate about, given a blank slate opportunity

  • List three ways your skills can be used/executed, in a

different setting

  • List 5 things you would need to do to follow that

interest/passion

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A Different Application…

  • Brainstorm applications of those transferable
  • skills. Have fun with this! PollEv
  • https://www.polleverywhere.com/free_text_polls/t

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When you are ready with a clear idea of who you want to be, what your passion is, and what your transferable skills are, you will be

Ready, and Opportunity will knock!