Primer on Discovering Your Calling

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Discovering our "Strengths" is one place to start our journey.

A good assessment is Strengthfinders.2.0  http://strengths.gallup.com/110440/About-StrengthsFinder-20.aspx       You can purchase at Amazon for about $15

It has a code in the back of the book that you use when you go online to take the 177 question assessment. After taking the assessment you get an immediate printout of your top 5 strength and a commentary on how to further develop those "talents" into strengths.


It gives you all 34 Strengths from high to low AND gives you a 2 minute video of EACH Strength!

Both assessments are good. You can compare the two printouts side by side and get a more complete view of your talents that can be developed into "Strengths"

The results of knowing your "Strengths" is that you can use them in your job, career, volunteering and in your marriage. 

Now if you are ready to tackle your Abilities, a good book that is probably out of print is Discovering Your Natural Talents by John Brady and Jay Carty.
John Bardley has a company called    Idak Group
They have an online Abilities Assessment. Cost $27. Very good.

  Another step in our journey is to find out your S.H.A.PE. 

Maybe this is really the place to START!

S is your Spiritual Gifts.
H is your Heart or Passion
A is your Abilities
P is your Personality
E is your Experiences.

There are several websites that offer an online survey.
They are approaching this from a Christian worldview. The Spiritual Gifts part.
Gives you a great analysis on how to use your SHAPE in a Christian non profit.
If you don't do the Spiritual Gift section it also applies to a Secular non profit.
They give a great printout.



You can search Google for a S.H.A.P.E. Assessment. 
It is a great tool. 

More later on "Calling"

 

My latest TWEETS 

Our SHAPE and Strengths

A few thoughts on "Calling" from the book: 

THE GRAND WEAVER   

How God Shapes Us Through the Events of Our Lives

 By Ravi Zacharias

 

To allow God to be God we must follow him for who he is and what he intends, and not for what we want or what we prefer. Seeing the designing hand of God and His intervention in our lives in such a way that we know He has a specific purpose for each of us and that He will carry us through until we meet Him face-to-face and know ourselves completely.

Once we begin to see God’s hand in our life, we will know that his workmanship within us and through us was tailor-made, just for me. His design for my life pulls together every thread of my existence into a magnificent work of art. Every thread matters and has a specific purpose.

By his sovereign will, we have come into being with an expressed and designed purpose.

When you finally meet the One who made you and examine the lifelines he has sent you along the way, you will at last understand how every detail made sense in the swirling reality of life’s blessings and threats. 

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Will explore more on what our S.H.AP.E is soon.
S=Spiritual Gifts
H=Heart or Passion
A=Abilities
P=PersonalityE=Experiences.

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Our "Strengths" Where do they fit into the picture?

Another day!