by Gary Barkalow





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Get to Know You
By now, you may have a hunch about the burdens that drive you. But you’re still wondering what to study for the next few years. That’s a good question because your major and your calling are related. The following exercises will help you begin the lifelong process of knowing what God wants you to do.

A. Discover Your Passions

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?

B. Pick Your Passion Verbs

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

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