Scoring Quiz 3:
How Much Do I Use My Potential?
Interpreting Your Score
Using More of My Gifts & Talents
Since our world is skills and action oriented, this is a good place to start investing your time. The first thing to do is understand why you are not using more of your gifts and talents now.
You may have a low percentage if you have focused more on acquiring the standard abilities typically taught in schools, recognized by parents and focused on at work -- instead of developing your gifts and talents.
- If you do not know much about them, take a moment to read more about your gifts and talents.
- If you want to start using your skills more, a good area to focus on is at work where they will pay you for the excellence you achieve. You can learn more by reading about work you are naturally great at.
Doing More of What I Love
To start spending more of your day doing what you love, you want to make sure that you know exactly what that is.
- If you have not done so already, read about work you are passionate about.
- You can turn what you love to do into your life's work by researching the life paths that include the most activities, things and experiences you love.
Working More On Compelling Issues
This is one area that many of us overlook when we evaluate a job offer. We focus on the salary, title and benefits -- and end up overlooking what makes each hour spent on the job meaningful.
- If you do not know what issues or problems you love to work on, read more about work you care deeply about.
- Give some thought to what gives your work and life meaning, and the problems, issues and needs that compel you to take action.
Doing More of My Life Calling
It can be challenging to translate a vision of how you want to impact or improve the world into your everyday life. Often we end up dreaming on the weekends and spending our weekdays focused on paying the bills.
- If you do not know what your life calling is, read more about work that calls to you.
Living More of The Life I Love
Flour, sugar, eggs and water must be combined in the right proportions to make a cake. To make a life you love, you need to properly combine nine essential ingredients into a recipe for living the life you dream of, which we envision as ...
- Using your gifts and talents
- Doing what you love
- Using the things you love
- Surrounded by the people you love
- Working in the places you love
- Having the experiences you love
- Working on the issues and problems you love
- Following your life calling
- And being inspired to live a wonderful life story
You need to have all the ingredients and combine them together in the right way. For example, if you are using your gifts and talents you will have a high 'using my gifts and talents' percentage. But if you are not using them on the issues you truly care about, you will have a low overall percentage.
So take a moment and compare your individual scores to your overall ones, and see it you can identify what is causing the low score. Is it one low area, a missing ingredient, or how you are combining them together?
If you really want to start living the life you dream of, we recommend that you start first by doing what you love for a living. Working is how you spend most of your day. And excelling there should pay you handsomely enough to be able to afford the resources and time to do more of what you love.
- If you already have a very detailed idea of what your dream work is, go find your dream job or start your dream business.
- If you do not have a clear idea of exactly what you want, take a look at our pages that help you take up your life's work or your dream work.
How Knowing Your Potential Changes Your Life
