Remember, there are no right or wrong answers. While it is good to be realistic in your assessment of yourself, this is still a completely subjective questionnaire geared to clarify your perceptions and thinking.
Set A:
Evaluate the quality and range of your gifts, talents and abilities. These can be inborn, innate gifts or abilities acquired and learned during one's life.
Level 1: Identify areas (skills/talents/gifts) at which you excel, are better than most people or are much above average:
Level 2: Identify areas (skills/talents/gifts) which you are good at. While you are somewhat above average, still many other people are as good as you in these areas:
Level 3: Identify areas in which you are average or below and many people are more talented or more effective than you:
Level 4: Identify areas in which you are pretty lousy and much below average:
Set B:
This set explores the most pertinent questions in regard to calling.
1a: What are you very good at? Identify your gifts, talents and abilities at which you excel. These may be inborn gifts or abilities acquired during your life. (This is a similar question to set A question #1)
1b. What are you not at all good at? Identify that at which you do not excel and in general are not your gifts. (This is a similar question to Set A question #4)
2a: What kinds of tasks or activities give you joy, delight, or pleasure? What do you like to do a lot? It is related to the question of what you would do if you had all the money, time, health, and love you need.
2b: What kinds of tasks or activities deplete or bore you? What do you hate to do?
3a: In which areas are you very disciplined? With what type of activities are you consistent and methodical and do not procrastinate or regularly avoid?
3b: What activities do you regularly avoid, delay or procrastinate doing? In what areas are you not disciplined?
4a: What, in your opinion, does the world, the region, the state, or your community need? What types of contributions are needed by the world, the environment, people, children or animals in these times?
4b: What, in your opinion, does the world need less of these days?
Set C:
Take some time to figure out how you can make changes so that you spend more time and energy at the higher levels and as little as possible at the lower ones. While spending some time even at level #4 is inevitable in most situations, spending most of your life at level #4 can breed in one deep dissatisfaction, bitterness and a sense of a wasted life. The changes may take the form of transforming how you work or the way you spend your free time, or they may require you to reshuffle your priorities or allocate time differently for different aspects of your life. Some changes may even require quitting or changing your job or relocating.
Evaluate the percentage of time that you spend at each level (Section A) in your life at the present time:
Level from Section A: 1 2 3 4
%:
