Here we are at step one seat. Now this is the part you're probably more familiar with. It's about looking at your purpose, your interests, your skills. Now I've put this after our lifestyle and our values research because I find it's actually surprisingly adaptable. For instance, in my previous employment, I was a creative director. Now, you might think that my interests, my skills are about, you know, being creative and coming up with ideas and all those things that are traditionally part of being creative director.

But the thing that actually brought me into work every day, wasn't any of that. It was being a mentor to my team. Now, I was overseeing about 18 or so designers at one point, and I think that's a pretty large team. What I really enjoyed was helping them reach out their potential so reach their creativity, figure out how to solve a problem themselves, grow and learn and become better designers because of that, and then also sometimes just mentoring them in life and seeing how their work in their life fits together. And I was often that person that they would come to when they were trying to figure something out. So it was my team that brought me into work every morning.

It wasn't the traditional skills of being a creative director. Now, you may have heard of a thought leader, his name is Simon Sinek. He is all about finding your why your purpose, the reason for doing what you do. Now, he looks at companies mostly so say Apple as an example. They make beautifully designed things that make it easier for people to use technology. So it's not what they make, it's why they make it and you can even go beyond that.

If you look at a company like virgin with Richard Branson. He is in all kinds of different industries and his purpose his reason his Why is about making better experiences for customers. You can see with that purpose, it's really adaptable across any field. So that's why I say when you're looking at your interest in your skills, I want you to think about how adaptable they are. So don't get stuck in one field or one area. When you're thinking about your interest, expand beyond that.

So think about more your your principles and some of your soft skills and how that can adapt to other areas. Now I understand that trying to come up with your purpose in life is a little overwhelming. So at this stage, I want you to just write down something anything you can write down many things if you want to write down one continuous run on sentence and keep going, that's fine to just start the process, you can always come back to it later to refine it. Feel free to pause the video at this stage to get your thoughts out. Let's move on to interests. Now, when you think of interests, you might have a plethora of ideas already that you can write down.

That's great. I also want you to expand that a little bit. Think about, you know, what kind of what do you do in your spare time? What kind of podcasts do you listen to? What kind of books do you read? What do you talk about with your friends when you're not at work?

So expand your interest a little bit, think a little bit further than what just interests you workwise and what you're currently doing. And then I also want you to get a little bit more specific as well. So if you say travel is one of your interests, right, write down why you like travel. What about it excites you? What kind of travel like maybe you're really into adventure travel, or do you prefer lying on a beach, or you really like to go to museums and galleries and that sort of thing. So be a little bit more specific about your interests.

Whenever you flick back on one of my interests when I was going through my career transition It was reading and to be a little bit more specific. It's reading leadership and development books. That's still an interest. I love learning. So you can see how when you reflect or think about your interest, it can lead you into what you're going to be doing in the future. So take a minute, pause the video and write down some of your interests.

Okay, we're back to talk about abilities. And I have a quote for you. Do what you're good at, and the passion will follow. It's a little backwards from the usual do what you love and the money will follow. And here's the reason when you're doing something that you are really good at, it's very likely that things start to come easily to you, things start to flow, you get a lot of compliments in that area, and you start to really enjoy it. So looking at our skills, the abilities that we currently have, can be one of many great ways to think about what we're doing next.

Now, it can be hard sometimes to really decipher what our strengths are because often we're surrounded by people who have similar strengths, so this is the case for you, then I want you to ask a few other people what they think your strengths are people who are not working in your field. So for instance, as a creative director, creativity was a strength, but I didn't really appreciate it because I was surrounded by tons of creative people. So I didn't stand out in that area. But since then, I've been working with some clients and they hire me specifically for my creativity, and they really enjoy that aspect of me and that strength that I can offer to a job. So it was a strength that I was overlooking in the past because of the environment that I was in. So that's why I say it may be helpful to maybe ask a few other people what they think your strengths are.

To add to your list. You can also reflect on maybe what compliments you've had in the past because they would be specific to you, or something that has given you energy and make you excited or even the office about something that annoys you, maybe you see something in somebody else that you think should be common sense and they just don't get it as probably because it's one of your skills. So take a minute to write down some of your ideas. And then in the next video, we'll talk further about skills, what's transferable and what you can learn.