Makes Your Soul Sing

What makes you come alive? What makes your soul sing at just the thought? Find time to do it. Your heart and soul will thank you in ways you can’t imagine. This could be a small thing, one thing or many things. Whatever it is for you, perhaps knowing this is a signal you need to consider a change in your life direction, or that you should seriously contemplate the idea of a career change.

If you don’t know what brings you joy, it may be because you haven’t met yourself.
Step 1 – Purchase a blank book of your choice
• You can use a three-ring binder with three-hole punched paper, pockets, sheet protectors, and perhaps cardstock. These items can be used to include special material and glue or insert magazine pictures
• A blank spiral notebook
• A blank hardback journal
• There are sources for blank journals of all sizes, styles, and price ranges under the Resources section at www.CharacterTakesCourage.com.

Step 2 – Answer the following twenty questions in your book.
For each question also write out why you answered the way you did. This is an important part of this step.
1. What is your favorite color?
2. What is your favorite food? (Remember to write about why for each answer)
3. What is your favorite time of year?
4. Do you like the beach, mountains, desert, high country, coast, prairie, or what?
5. Do you like the weather to be hot or cold?
6. What is your favorite style of clothes to wear?
7. Is there a sport you like to watch or participate in?
8. Do you like a lot of people in your home or do you like solitude? (Remember to write about why for each answer)
9. Do you have many friends or just a few close friends?
10. Would you prefer to talk to someone on the phone, write a letter, or send an email, or text message?
11. How do you feel about each of your family members? Pick at least one word to describe each of your family relationship. Write one paragraph about each person.
12. Are you a morning person? Or do you come alive at night-time?
13. What is one item you can’t live without daily? (Remember to write about why)
14. What style(s) of music do you like?
15. Are you organized or disorganized in general? What is in the back seat of your car look like right now?
16. Do you like animals? What kind?
17. What makes you cry? (Remember to write about why)
18. What makes you laugh?
19. Are you the life of the party or do you prefer to enjoy a party by having a good conversation with one or two people?
20. How do you want to be remembered? (Remember to write about why)