SWBen

I’m one of those mid-life people who looks around one day and says, “You know, this just isn’t ‘it’.” I have one of those “Good Jobs,” with pay, bennies, etc etc. But at the end of the day I’m seeing myself as part of a bigger picture that I’d like to not be part of someday.

I’ll be reading the other entries in this “thing,” and hoping to catch a few good ideas from everyone else!

I have recently been coming to the conclusion that my current path in life is not what I really want. The obvious next question is: “What do I really want?” (duh) That, as it turns out, is a challenging question for me. But I’m pretty sure that it involves using my unique gifts (or talents). But, I’m pretty blank on what I uniquely have to give. If I just look around me, I see lots of people who can do lots of things better than I can, but nothing that I seem to do better than anyone else. Could be I have a blind spot. Could be I’m just mediocre. But I need to at least follow this until I can decide the difference.

I’m starting on a book by Simon, Howe, and Kirschenbaum called “Values Clarification,” but it’s kind of dry, and seems a bit dated.

I’ve also found a website that has a tool: http://www.douglaswagoner.com/ValueTest.php

I’m going to go back and hit that one again.

I’m clear that until I start doing the “which is more important to me: This or That” exercise, that I’m probably blowing smoke. The problem with the website is that it just asks the questions in the abstract, rather than providing hypothetical situations to pit one value against another.

What processes are others using to work through this?