⚡🔎Activity: Reflective Question Exercise

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Finding your spark requires reflection, examining and considering your own ideas, thoughts, and feelings.  This might be an unfamiliar process, but you can stretch your reflective abilities with practice.

Activity

Use these reflective questions as a starting point for your self-analysis:

• What causes do I care most about? The UN Sustainable Development Goals might provide focus and direction, and contributing to causes that align with the SDGs may provide you with a sense of purpose and satisfaction.
• What have I done that feels fulfilling and not like work?
• What skills or talents do I have that are fun to use?
• What do I enjoy doing and contributing to?
• What would I like to try doing, even if I don't know that I will excel at it?
  

Once you have worked through these questions, consider your responses and look for any common ideas and themes in your answers.  You can make note of your answers and common themes in your Express Search Workbook or Exploratory Search Workbook.

It is also important to remember that reflection is an individual process.  There is no one ‘right’ way of doing it.  Here are some suggestions to set you up for success:

• Set aside time to sit and think without distractions;
• Start with the questions above that jump out to you, they don't need to be answered in order;
• There is no correct answer, brainstorming allows your to write whatever comes to mind;
• Be honest and objective.

Self-reflection can be challenging—if you have worked through the unit and find yourself at a standstill, book an appointment with a Career Advisor in Career Services in Libcal.