What have been your favorite movies?	What were they about? What were their themes?	What scenes had the greatest effect on you?

What books have really been meaningful to you?	What was their subject or theme?	What made them meaningful to you?

What speakers have had the greatest impact on you? (in person or recorded)	What was their topic?	What point(s) had the greatest impact on you?

What theme(s) do you find throughout your answers?

Go through the list of action verbs quickly, checking off those words which generate a sense of excitement, enthusiasm and energy in you. Don’t over analyze the words, go with your heart. Then go back and circle the four verbs, of those you checked, that most excite and energize you.

Accomplish Account Achieve Acquire Act Adapt Administrate Adopt Advance Advertise Advise Affect Affirm Alleviate Amplify Analyze Appraise Appreciate Arbitrate Arrange Ascend Ascertain Assess Associate Attain Attend Audit Believe Bestow Brighten Broadcast Budget Build Calculate Call Categorize Cause Choose Claim Classify Coach Collect Color Combine Command Communicate Compel Compete Complete Compliment Compose Compute Conceive Conceptualize Conduct Confirm Connect Consider Construct Consult Contact Continue Control Converse Coordinate Counsel Craft Create Dance Debate Decide Decorate Defend Define Delegate Delight Deliver Demonstrate Design Detail Determine Develop

Devise Diagnose Direct Discover Discuss Display Distribute Draft Dramatize Draw Dream Drive Edit Educate Elect Embrace Empathize Empower Encourage Endow Enforce Engage Engineer Enhance Enlighten Enlist Enliven Entertain Enthuse Establish Estimate Evaluate Examine Excite Execute Expand Experiment Explain Explore Express Extend Facilitate Finance Fire Fix Follow Forgive Formulate Foster Found Franchise Fundraise Further Gather Generate Give Give feedback Grant Guide Head Heal Help Hire Hold Host Hypothesize Identify Illuminate Illustrate Imagine Implement Improve Improvise Increase Influence Inform Initiate Innovate Inspect Inspire Install

Instruct Integrate Interpret Interview Invent Invest Involve Judge Keep Know Labor Landscape Launch Layout Lead Learn Lecture Lift Light Listen Live Love Maintain Make Manage Manifest Manipulate Manufacture Market Master Mature Measure Mediate Mentor Model Mold Monitor Motivate Move Navigate Negotiate Nurture Observe Obtain Open Operate Order Organize Originate Oversee Paint Participate Perceive Perform Persuade Photograph Pilot Plan Play Practice Praise Predict Prepare Present Print Prioritize Process Produce Program Project Promise Promote Protect Prove Provide Publicize Purchase Pursue Question Read Realize Reason

Reclaim Recommend Reconcile Record Recruit Reduce Refine Reflect Reform Rehabilitate Relate Release Rely Remember Remodel Renew Repair Report Represent Research Resolve Resonate Respect Respond Restore Revise Safeguard Save Schedule Sculpt Select Sell Separate Serve Set up Shape Share Show Sing Sketch Solve Sort Speak Stand Start Structure Study Summarize Summon Supervise Supply Support Survey Sustain Synthesize Systematize Take risks Talk Teach Team-build Test Testify Touch Train Translate Treat Tutor Understand Unify Upgrade Utilize Validate Value Venture Verbalize Visualize Volunteer Win Work Write Yield