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

initially—you may not be able to find a match for all the items on your
lists. You may only be able to find a match for some of the items. There
will be only a partial overlap between “dream job” and “actual job,” in
which case it is important that the overlap be the items you care the most
about, not the least. And how will you know that, unless you put the items
on each list in order of importance to you?
Here is the problem visually summarized:
Click here to download a PDF of the Prioritizing Instrument or Grid.
Okay, so prioritizing is essential. How do you go about this? Having
compiled a list of, say, ten items on one of the petals in your Flower
Diagram, how do you decide which of the ten is absolutely the most
important to you, which of the ten is next most important, etc.? It seems at
first sight a bewildering challenge. Actually, it’s easier than you think, if…
If…you compare just two items at a time, until you’ve compared all
the possible pairs in that list of ten items. With all the pairs displayed in
one diagram, this works out to be a grid. And the most popular form of
that grid turns out to be my Prioritizing Grid, which I invented back in
1976. It can be for any number of items you choose, but the most common
and simplest form of it is for ten items. (Got more than ten—or less? See