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