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 Portfolio DevelopmentAppendix B: An Exercise in Goal SettingSection 1: Dream Imagine your life three, five, or ten years from today. Describe a career scenario at that time in your life. Section 2: What needs doing? (From Three Boxes of Life, courtesy: John Crystal) You can use your skills in a wide variety of places. The challenge is knowing "where?" One way to approach this problem is to remember that almost all of us see two worlds out there: the world as it is, and the world as we would like it to be. For this exercise you would have to develop your picture of the world as you would like it to be and break that picture down into its individual parts. Most of us tend to freeze when we try to do this because we are trying to look at each part of the picture in terms of ourselves, and continually saying, "But I couldn't help change this." We think so much of our limitations (imagined or real) that our imagination dries up. One way around this is to ask ourselves deliberately "What do I want to see others do, to help bring about the world as I would like it to be?" The minute you say "others" of course, you can endow them with every brain power and skill that you think you lack. Hence, your imagination is freed up. After you have thus freed up your imagination, you can come back to yourself bringing all this home at the end. |
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