You Need to Understand More Fully Who You Are : Petals 5-7

Hello Everyone,

This post will be covering the 3rd and final section of chapter 7 of What Color is Your Parachute : 2016, You Need to Understand More Fully Who You Are. If you want to read the introduction to this chapter, click here. If you want to read petals 1-4, click here.

I Am A Person Who Prefers a Certain Level of Responsibility and Salary

Fifth Petal: My Preferred Salary and Level of Responsibility

 Goal: Gain a realistic picture of how much money you will need to earn
Look For: A range - you'll want your bottom range to be near the top of their's
Form: Total dollars needed, weekly, monthly, or annually

Money is important.
Happiness is important too.
But money does buy happiness, but only to a point ($75,000)

1. The first question here is at what level would you like to work in your ideal job? Level is how much responsibility you want in an organization. 2-3 word summary of your answer.
2. The second question here is what salary would you like to be aiming for? Think in terms of minimum and maximum. Figure our your minimum, or just getting by, by adding all your bills (rent, phone, food etc.) 

Also figure out if there are any rewards besides money that you want.

I Am a Person Who Prefers Certain Places to Live

Sixth Petal: My Preferred Place to Live

Goal: Define where you would most like to work and live and be happiest

Look For: Having a clearer picture about what you hope for, in life. Now or later.

Form: Stay general

1. Create this chart on a large piece of paper
2. Column 1, list places where you have ever lived.
3. Column 2, all the factors you disliked about each place. Good things in column 3. If some factors repeat, put check marks after listing. Disregard column 1, once you have written all the things you disliked.
4. Look at column 2, try to list opposites into column 3.
5. Column 4, list positive factors in column 3 in order of most important (to you) down to least important. Use a Prioritizing grid if it helps.
6. Write the top 10, and ask people if they can think of a location like that. Circle the 3 most interesting. Enter in column 5. Add to Flower diagram if you're doing this alone without a partner.
7. If you have a partner, skip column 5, when you have finished column 4, look at your partner's and copy it into your column 6.
8. Now in column 7, combine your column 4 with column 6.
9. List top 10 factors and both of you should show it to everyone you meet. Again circle 3 that are the most interesting to the 2 of you. Enter into column 8.

I Am a Person Who Has a Certain Goal, Purpose, or Mission in Life

Seventh Petal: My Goal, Purpose, or Mission in Life

Goal: Know the moral compass or spiritual values by which you want to guide you life.

Look For: Some definition of the purpose and mission of your life.

Form: Description of what kingdom of life you want to make better.

The Nine Kingdoms of Mission and Purpose

1. The Mind. When you have finished your life here on earth, do you want there to be more knowledge, truth or clarity in the world, because you were here? Concerning what in particular.
2. The Body. Wholeness, fitness, or heath in the world? Wounds, feeding, clothing.
3. The Eyes and Other Senses. More beauty? What kind of beauty?
4. The Heart. More love and compassion? For whom? Or what?
5. The Will or Conscience. More morality, justice, righteousness? Areas of human life or listening? What geographical area?
6. The Spirit. More spirituality in the world, faith compassion, forgiveness, love for God and human family in all its diversity? Ages, people, or what parts of human life?
7. Entertainment. Mere lightening of people's loads, giving them perspective, forget their cares, more laughter and joy? What kind of entertainment.
8. Our Possessions. Is your major concern the often false love of possessions in this world? Better stewardship. Quality rather than quantity.
9. The Earth. Is the planet on which we stand a major concern? Better protection for life on earth.

Which on draws you? Enter a summary paragraph on goal, purpose or mission in life petal. 

I Am a Person Who Has Completed My Flower

Here is an example of a completed flower diagram. Congrats you now have a better understand of who you are as a person,what you want and what works best for you!

Until next time,

Caitlin Campbell