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| about building my own website, I considered | | | | |
| my personal strengths and resources. It | | | | |
| occurred to me that it might be a good idea | | | | |
| to make a list of all the things I have in my | | | | In order to distinguish these action ideas |
| life, as well as the things I have learned | | | | from the resources I already listed, I |
| and skills I can use. This could help me come | | | | underline the action items. I am sharing some |
| up with new directions for my personal | | | | of these with you:Family & FriendsMy wifeHelp |
| development. After I've started writing these | | | | your wife pursue her dreamMy childrenWrite |
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| and could also show me ways to turn my | | | | what it's all aboutEuropeSouth |
| strengths into more powerful actions. In this | | | | AmericaArgentinaChilePeruBoliviaBrazilSouth |
| brief article I will try to demonstrate how I | | | | East AsiaIndiaNepalThailandMy Studies & |
| do this, hoping you can do the same. I use my | | | | WorkHuman ResourcesManagement skills |
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| a chance to know me better...I began by | | | | HandbookThinking, Innovation & |
| writing down the major categories of things I | | | | CreativityImproved Memory TechniquesBuilding |
| do and am related to. Here is what I came up | | | | a Personal Thinking |
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| have to be similar to the one I made or even | | | | employeeLanguagesHebrewEnglishTranslation |
| have the same logic or structure. Just try to | | | | tipsSpanishLearning tipsMy Hobbies and |
| think of the major things that make up the | | | | PastimesCapoeiraDivingBoard gamesPlaying |
| person that you are. | | | | tipsDesigning & Inventing |
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| | | | Now I had something I could work with. There |
| | | | were other things on the list - this is just |
| Next, I added more details to each major | | | | to show you the general idea. I am sure that |
| category - ending up with many of the things | | | | if you try to complete your own Power Map now |
| I consider to be my sources of power and | | | | - you'd have many action ideas. |
| knowledge. This is what it looked like by | | | | |
| now: | | | | Bringing it all together |
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| Family & FriendsMy wifeMy childrenMy mother, | | | | |
| sisters & brotherMy friendsPlaces I | | | | |
| knowIsraelEuropeSouth | | | | With such a detailed Power Map, you can |
| AmericaArgentinaChilePeruBoliviaBrazilSouth | | | | start looking for practical ways to harness |
| East AsiaIndiaNepalThailandMy Studies & | | | | all that power to interesting development |
| WorkHuman ResourcesManagement skills | | | | possibilities. The strongest ideas would be |
| trainingThinking, Innovation & | | | | those that combine as many strengths and |
| CreativityPhilosophyComputersWeb | | | | action items as possible. Consider this |
| programmingDatabase planningOnline & computer | | | | website I have built, for instance - it |
| gamesMyself as an | | | | combines my power at: English, Internet, |
| employeeLanguagesHebrewEnglishSpanishMy | | | | Creativity, Management training, and more. |
| Hobbies and PastimesCapoeiraDivingBoard games | | | | |
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| Seeing all that I have in my favor, I | | | | |
| already started to feel stronger! | | | | I truly hope this can help you become |
| | | | stronger, more creative, and ultimately |
| If you want to get the same feeling - take a | | | | happier. If you liked this article and the |
| few minutes to list many of your own sources | | | | Power Map tool, you should sign up for my |
| of power. | | | | email newsletter and receive many more things |
| | | | - a new set of ideas each month; |
| | | | easy-to-learn creative tools; updates on new |
| | | | ideas and tools available on this website; |
| Turning power into actionNow it was time to | | | | and other crazy things I will come up with in |
| start thinking how I could turn all those | | | | time... - it's at Elion is a management and |
| resources into something I could make or | | | | innovation consultant and facilitator. He was |
| contribute. In other words - come up with new | | | | a part of a group that developed a unique |
| and useful things I could do with all I have. | | | | method for training diverse skills through |
| What I came up with was consisted of things I | | | | the use of board games. He has a degree in |
| did before and could do better or on a larger | | | | Philosophy and General studies and an MA in |
| scale; things I haven't done before but | | | | organizational behavior. |
| believed I could do; and some other ideas | | | | |