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

Petal Four, Worksheet #2
ESSAY: YOUR PHILOSOPY ABOUT LIFE
There are two challenges you may run into, with this Petal.
First Challenge: You just come up empty on this exercise, despite hard
thinking. No harm done. If you want an answer, just keep the question on
the back burner of your mind; eventually some insight is going to break
through. Tomorrow, next week, next month, or a year from now. Be
patient with yourself.
Second Challenge: This subject doesn’t grab you at all. Okay. Then
instead of writing a statement of purpose or mission for your life, you can
write instead a statement outlining what you think about life: why are we
here, why are You here, and so on. This is often called “Your Philosophy
of Life.”
In writing a philosophy of life, it should be no more than two pages,
single spaced, and can be less; it should address whichever of the elements
listed below you think are most important; pick and choose. You do not
have to write about all of them. In most cases, you will only need two or
three sentences about each element you choose to comment on.
Beauty: what kind of beauty stirs you, what the function of beauty is
in the world
Behavior: how you think we should behave in this world
Beliefs: what your strongest beliefs are
Celebration: how you like to play or celebrate, in life
Choice: what its nature and importance is
Community: what your concept is about belonging to each other;
what you think our responsibility is to each other
Compassion: what you think about its importance and use
Confusion: how you live with it, and deal with it
Death: what you think about it and what you think happens after it
Events: what you think makes things happen, how you explain why