4 Step Childhood Reflection To Find Your Gifts
If you crave more meaning in life, or want to get clearer on your life purpose, here’s a major key I discovered.
The seeds of your soul’s gifts are found in your childhood.
There are certain things you were drawn to as a kid that were the callings of your soul.
There’s a reason why you were magnetized to them.
It’s a hint, across space and time, to align with your highest trajectory and live your best life.
Want to clarify your gifts and step more into your purpose? Here’s a four step exercise.
4 Steps to Clarify Your Gifts
You can use a pen and paper for this, or do it digitally. Whatever brightens your titans.
Step 1: List everything that lit you up in childhood.
What were your favorite things as a child?
List everything you loved, were passionate about, or got in the zone with.
You can even add little details to help you remember and add context.
Example: (my personal list)
Books - I loved taking home books from the school library about space, dinosaurs and basketball.
Playing using my imagination (with action figures and legos).
Playing basketball - I even liked playing alone, practicing (it was meditative).
Contemplation - I often contemplated the nature of God, starting as early as I can remember.
Writing - My favorite project ever in school was writing a short book in first grade.
Wordplay - Dr. Seuss, hip hop, poetry, etc. I also loved deciphering wordplay.
Reading about fringe topics (bigfoot, UFOs, spiritual experiences, etc).
Step 2: Find the common themes.
List some of the common themes that apply to most or all of the list above.
Example:
Curiosity and knowledge
Play and imagination
Writing and deciphering
Step 3: List careers/occupations that embody those common themes.
What careers or occupations embody most or all of the common themes from step two?
You can add notes about how or why they reflect these.
Example:
Copywriting - It’s curiosity + play + writing
Fiction writing - Curiosity/knowledge + play/imagination + writing/deciphering
Step 4: Where is this pointing?
Contemplate and journal about where all of this is pointing you.
Don’t worry if the careers or occupations you came up with aren’t what you do now, or want to do.
The careers from step three just serve as pointers.
It might be pointing you toward a new hobby, a new business venture, or a new project to work on.
Illuminate Your Path
Let this process spark new ideas and insights for you.
There are gems from your childhood
Seeds ready to blossom
If you’re willing to take a look
In honoring your past
You open up your future
In the ever-unfolding now
I trust this helps you along your journey.
Much love,
Stephen Parato
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