The Flower Diagram Petal 1: Goal, Purpose, or Mission in Life Petal 5: Favorite Working Conditions

(Adapted from Richard N Bolles)

Make a difference - making an impact by on others’ lives, helping patients Fairly flexible - I am not to picky when it comes to my work schedule, as
Instructions: After reading The Flower Diagram Instructions and achieve their health goals, contribute to eliminating racial and cultural long as I work the same amount of hours each week I do not need a set
reflecting on the 7 petals, fill in each of the boxes to the right with top discrimination in the healthcare field, conducting research on conditions schedule (although I would prefer it). I am also not opposed to working on
2-3 ideas that emerged from your reflection. Be sure to submit this such as Epilepsy and/or Cancer and hopefully contribute to finding a cure the weekend, however I would prefer only working one day on the
diagram to Laulima and post to your professional portfolio. or finding new information/helping improve medications and treatments. weekend. The most favorable condition would be a workplace who could
My goal is to make an impact on the healthcare system and on the lives of be flexible/understanding if I need time off due to sickness, and would
individuals. allow me to request time off for traveling/visiting family.
Find my passion Work-life balance
Help others/give back to my community Productive
Petal 2:
Favorite Petal 2: Favorite Knowledge or Fields of Interest
Knowledge or
Fields of Traveling, learning/trying new things - I really enjoy learning new
Interest Petal 6: Preferred Salary Range
perspectives. I enjoy traveling as it gives me the opportunity to learn
Petal 7: Petal 3: through meeting new people and gaining new experiences. One particular
Preferred Favorite Enough to pay my student loans
field I really enjoy learning about is genetics. I find it fascinating we are
Place(s) to Transferable $100,000+ would be ideal
able to test for various conditions through our DNA. I am hoping to learn
Live Skills $80,000+ would be preferred
more about this and gene editing, and hopefully conduct my own
Petal 1: Goal, research in genetics.
Purpose, or
Mission in Life
Petal 3: Favorite Transferable Skills
Petal 4:
Petal 6: Preferred Optimism, honesty, willingness to learn/adapt- I find these skills to be Petal 7: Preferred Place(s) to Live
Preferred Kinds of very unique to me because I have not always had all of them. I believe
Salary Range People to honesty to be the best policy and always advise my friends to be honest. Somewhere near the ocean - doesn’t matter where!
Petal 5: Work With In 2015, I found out I had Epilepsy. Following the diagnosis I did not feel West Coast (Washington, Oregon, California)
Favorite optimistic at all. There was a lot of things I thought I would never be able Other parts of US (Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina)
Working to do because of my medical condition, however I was able to adapt and Outside of US (Australia, Germany, UK)
Conditions find new ways to do things that would not put my health at risk. I recently
was told by a neurologist that my condition would likely never improve,
however I remain optimistic that one day a cure will be found.

Petal 4: Preferred Kinds of People to Work With

Passionate about what they do

Productive - Able to focus and get done what needs to be done.
Positive - Have a positive attitude, friendly, and respectful to everyone.