I never post columns so I thought I would for a change.
Okay, so this is one of the assignments that I had to do for my psychology of personality class and I found it interesting. This would give me an opportunity to get to know you better and for you to know more about yourself. I hope you find it interesting and I hope that you'll take a few minutes to do it and share. I doubt it would take longer than filling out one of those myspace surveys and this actually makes you think. It's simple and insightful.
I hope someone does this and I look forward to reading it
It's based off of Alfred Adler's individual psychology btw.
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"The important thing is not what one is born with, but what use one makes of that equipment"
~Adler~
source: Personality and Personal Growth, 6th edition- Frager, Robert and Fadiman, James
"Adler emphasized more the pull of the future than the pressure of the past. For Adler, where we hope to go is more important than where we have been. In order to discover the relationship between your life goals and daily activities, try the following exercises.
Set aside 15 minutes for this exercise. Sit down with four sheets of paper and a pen or pencil. Write at the top of the first sheet, "What are my lifetime goals?" Take two minutes to answer this question. Write down whatever comes into your mind, no matter how general, abstract, or trivial it may seem. You may want to include personal, family, career, social, community, or spiritual goals. Then give yourself an additional 2 minutes to go over your list and make any additions or alterations. Set aside this first sheet.
Take your second sheet and write at the top, "How would I like to spend the next three years?" Take 2 minutes to answer this question. Then take 2 more minutes to go over your list. This question should help you pinpoint your goals more specifically than you did with the first question. Again, set aside this list.
For a different perspective on your goals, write on your third sheet, "If I knew my life would end six months from today, how would I live until then?"
(*Hint: think deeper than "I would party every day." Think about things you always wanted to do or things you feel you need to do to feel at peace with yourself and others). "The purpose of this question is to find out what may be important to you that you are not doing or even considering now. Again, write for 2 minutes; go back over your answers for another 2 minutes, and set this sheet aside.
On your fourth sheet of paper, write down the three goals that you consider most important out of the goals you have listed. Compare all four lists. Do any themes run through the various goals you have given? Are most of your goals in one category, such as social or personal? Do some goals appear on the first three lists? Do the goals you have chosen as most important differ in some way from the other goals on your list?
Although this method does not fully uncover the unconscious life goals that Alfred Adler discussed, it can be a powerful way of discovering the relationship between your goals and your daily activities. It is also a useful exercise to repeat every six months or so in order to see what changes may have occurred."
Hope you enjoyed
~Steph
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