Exercise 2: Sweet Spot of Success

A. Discovering Passion

Few people have enough clarity to be able to articulate their passion. It’s quite
common to have trouble with this. Here is an exercise to help you find clarity.

STEP 1:
Make a list of events that took place in your life from the age of 4 that made you feel
truly joyful.

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STEP 2:
Once you have plotted them across the years, try to identify emerging patterns as to
what kind of thoughts, activities, and behaviours create the emotion of joy in you. In
order to fulfill yourself, you need to be joyful. You need to be doing what would make
you joyful. List the top three patterns that emerge.

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B. Strengths supporting your performance

What do you believe are your biggest strengths? Some things to consider are:
(There are also a number of free personality tests on the internet to help you identify your strengths.)

1. Make a list of your personal achievements.

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2. Which of your qualities helped you make these achievements?

3. What do others think of as your strengths?

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List your top 3 strengths:

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C. Develop Opportunities that integrate passion and strengths

Against each of the 3 drivers of joy that you identified for yourself in the above
exercise, write down different opportunities that you can think of that will enable
these drivers. Write as many opportunities as you can first. Then narrow it down to
one. For example, if you find joy and excitement in being of service to others, and
communication and empathy are your strengths, coaching would be a great
opportunity for you.

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Use the Venn diagram to help you list down your ideas:

Drivers of Joy Strengths

Opportunities

D. Resources to realize these Opportunities

Put down all the resources you would need to realise the opportunity you selected.
Use the circles below to buckets your needs into different categories. Some examples
of buckets are knowledge, experience, networking, financial support, mentoring,

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coaching, etc. List as many as you can think of under each of the buckets. (You may
also draw more circles if needed)

You may be wondering why circles. Why not a much simpler Excel sheet? An excel sheet imprisons you
cognitively. Drawing the circle opens you up to creativity. Use circles, not boxes in this and other
processes! This makes what would have been a boring left-brain activity into a joyful right-brain one.

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