Episode 99 - Honor Your Past Experience - a podcast by Rebecca Clark

Let's take some time to honor your past experience for a minute.

Your past can be a great place to get clues to what you do well, what you don't, and what kind of work you might want to pursue in the future.

I like to draw a chart and start filling it in toward discovering trends and gaps.

Here's a simple framework you can use to take a look at your past experience:

1 - Draw 4-5 columns on a piece of paper.

2 - Label the columns - Experience, Strengths, Weaknesses, Likes, Dislikes, Other.

3 - Start from when you were young and consider jobs, interests, school or work projects, volunteer experiences. Write them all down in the first column boxes. Try writing down at least 20.

4 - Identify the strengths and weaknesses of that experience. Write down comments in row next to the experience.

5 - Identify what you liked and disliked. You may find you dislike some things you are good at and like some things you aren't yet skilled in. That's ok. You get to decide what you want to do with that information.

6 - Write down any other information in the "Other" column.

Look at how much you've experienced!

What have you learned about yourself? Did you unearth something that you forgot that you'd love to pursue?

This is just part of the journey to offering up your best work. Looking to the past to honor what you find out. Using that information as you step forward into the future work that you are meant to offer up.

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