It's so important to fully embrace your identity, and these exercises will nail that down. Email me at pcgrowingforward@gmail.com for the worksheets. Also, this will help you get clarity on your vision and how to avoid the inevitable obstacles that come your way.

1. Your Life, Career,
Relationships

2. Coaches
Consultants
Look Back Counselors
Look Ahead
Mentors
Look
Down
Look
Inside

3. EXPLORING
Who You Are/
Where You
Are Now

4. “Under stress,
people become more
of who they are.”
“The unexamined life
is not worth living.”
Aristotle
Condi Rice

5. 1. Birth Order: only child/firstborn/middle/baby
EXPLORING WHO YOU ARE/WHERE YOU ARE NOW
2. Introvert (replenished by time alone;
needs less stimulating environments) or
Extrovert (replenished by time with
people; more stimulating environments)

7. 3. DISC profile
EXPLORING WHO YOU ARE/WHERE YOU ARE NOW
• Dominant
• Influential
• Steady
• Conscientious

8. 4. VALUES
EXPLORING WHO YOU ARE/WHERE YOU ARE NOW
“Your compass is your values;
they lead you to the road which
is your vision, and you are able
to find your way using the road
signs called goals.”

9. 5. STRENGTHS
EXPLORING WHO YOU ARE/WHERE YOU ARE NOW
Success: I feel effective at it. Your sweet spot.
Instinct: I naturally look forward to it.
Not something you dread.
Growth: I intensely focus on it while I’m doing it.
(time speeds by)
Needs: I feel put on earth to do it
(tired but not drained)

10. 6. LOVE LANGUAGE
EXPLORING WHO YOU ARE/WHERE YOU ARE NOW
• What love language do you complain
about not having the most?
• Which one do you most like to give?

11. 7. What FILLS your emotional tank/
DRAINS your tank
EXPLORING WHO YOU ARE/WHERE YOU ARE NOW
Surround yourself more with the fills, and
put boundaries around the drains.

12. 8. PASSIONS (when I feel most alive)
EXPLORING WHO YOU ARE/WHERE YOU ARE NOW
The fire in your belly to
make a difference

13. 9. TWO BIGGEST MOTIVATORS
EXPLORING WHO YOU ARE/WHERE YOU ARE NOW
What drives you to act?

14. 10. PERSONAL MISSION STATEMENT
EXPLORING WHO YOU ARE/WHERE YOU ARE NOW
“Life without purpose is a languid,
drifting thing.” – Thomas a Kempis
To add value to people through
encouraging/equipping words,
servant-leader actions, and a contagious
passion to honor God with my life.

15. DETERMINING
Where You
are Going
“The greatest danger
for most of us lies not in
setting our aim too high
and falling short, but in
setting our aim too low
and achieving our mark.” -
-Michelangelo

16. A. EULOGY
DETERMINING WHERE YOU ARE GOING
Then live into it.

17. B. Personal Vision Statement
a statement that you never
fully reach but are always
shooting for
DETERMINING WHERE YOU ARE GOING

18. C. Determine your most
important priorities
for the year ahead.
Consider a theme,
have fun with it and
post it as a reminder
DETERMINING WHERE YOU ARE GOING

19. D. “Life as a 3-ring Circus”
DETERMINING WHERE YOU ARE GOING

20. E. Your roles and goals.
DETERMINING WHERE YOU ARE GOING
There is power in writing
and in sharing goals.
HARD
(Heartfelt, Animated,
Required, Difficult)

21. F. Your roles and goals.
If you cannot see it,
you cannot do it.
Goals not broken into
manageable steps usually get
no traction.
DETERMINING WHERE YOU ARE GOING

22. IDENTIFYING
How to Avoid
Obstacles

23. 1. Develop an accountability system
IDENTIFYING HOW TO AVOID OBSTACLES
A TEAM
• Accountability
• Teamwork
• Encouragement
• Ask for help
• Motivation
Delay gratification
until you get it done;
then reward yourself!

24. 2. Determine 7-10 questions to ask
yourself daily
IDENTIFYING HOW TO AVOID OBSTACLES
3. Identify emotional baggage.
If you don’t deal with it, you carry it to your
next relationship or job.
“You are currently a
product of yesterday’s
habits.” –Jim Stovall
“What you resist,
persists.”

25. IDENTIFYING HOW TO AVOID OBSTACLES
4. Identify Shadow Mission
Your motivation when not on
your game.

26. 5. Get a complete physical.
IDENTIFYING HOW TO AVOID OBSTACLES
6. When you get stuck, brainstorm your
options for making constructive changes.
People backed into a corner
do not see options.

27. IDENTIFYING HOW TO AVOID OBSTACLES
7. Develop a personal board of directors.
Choose to be under people
who get you to greatness.

28. IDENTIFYING HOW TO AVOID OBSTACLES
8. Graph your time spent on various
tasks/relationships. Give A, B, C priorities.
“Never sacrifice the permanent on the
altar of the immediate.” –Bob Kraning
WIN = Work It Now!

29. Practice the
BALANCE WHEEL
of Self-Care
FA
POSITIVELY
SELF AFFIRM

30. GOLDEN
RETRIEVER