What Color Is Your Parachute 2018 by Richard N. Bolles copy

How to Do a SELF-Inventory
These are the things you will need:
1. Mental Preparation
You begin by stripping yourself (in your mind) of any past job-titles.
When you ask yourself “Who am I?” you must drop the vocational answer
that first springs to mind. Like: I’m an accountant, or I am a truck driver,
or a lawyer, or a construction worker, or salesperson, or designer, or
writer, or account executive. That kind of an answer locks you into the
past. You must think instead: “I am a person…”
“I am a person who…has had these experiences.”
“I am a person who…is skilled at doing this or that.”
“I am a person who…knows a lot about this or that.”
“I am a person who…is unusual in this way or that.”
Yes, this is how a useful self-inventory begins. You are a person, not a
job.
2. One Sheet of Paper (Digital or Physical)
Brain researchers such as Barbara Brown of USC discovered that when
you are trying to make any kind of decision about your life, the most
effective strategy is to shrink down every significant thing you know about
yourself onto one piece of paper. 1 At least at the end. Not a journal, or a
bunch of Post-It Notes, or several pieces of paper. Just one. (Write small.)
In this book that one piece of paper that you end up with, is called The
Flower Exercise, or Flower Diagram.
3. A Number of Worksheets