Day 17's activity is to "make a list of 10-12 kinds of work" that blend the three areas Miller talks about (skills and abilities, personality traits, and dreams and passions). Here are 12 options I came up with. I did 6 more specific and 6 more general kinds of work
1. Be a homemaker
2. Teach Spanish privately
3. Do an afterschool Spanish program in several schools
4. Be a business developer (culture in business)
5. Teach English in a Foreign country or in America
6. Learn a language
7. Teaching
8. Strategics/Creating New Ideas
9. Coding/Decoding software
10. Culture Decoding
11. Translation
12. Interpreting
Countdown to the Work I Love questions
1. I'm starting to. I am competent in many areas and need to develop the work I love.
2. No I don't.
3. Yes, very easily. Sometimes I struggle because I can see my skills transferring to so many areas I don't know which to pick.
4. Yes.
5. No not yet. Maybe if I were to pursue ESL or any computer software work.
6. This is the best question of all the questions in this book so far. I have asked myself something like this question since grade school. "Has God given you abilities that do not match your desires? If so, how can you reconcile those?" I really don't know the answer to this question. I feel like this is true in my life. I have a hard time separating my desires out of my skills. Some things keep coming up over and over again in my life, but I don't know how to make sense of it, are they desires or not. I'm just going to believe that God doesn't keep us in an I don't know place. This is really my struggle with a topic the book talked about before about "sanctified ignorance" and "serving God" in a naive way leading to a life out of alignment which I have done. I want to find the authentic path to a purposeful life.
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