Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life

Finding your Element is about finding yourself.

an inward journey to explore what lies within you and an outward journey to explore opportunities in the world around you.

Before each of the practical exercises in this book, I suggest that you try a simple meditation just for a few minutes, to calm yourself and focus on the questions you’re going to explore. Here’s one way to do this:

“I am not fully known to myself because part of what I am is the enigmatic traces of others.”

“I was working in an elementary school as an assistant language teacher. Sometimes they let me do things that I could create, and the rest of the time I just did what they told me to do.

If you open yourself to new experiences, the odds improve exponentially of one of those experiences changing your world in a profoundly positive way.

A vision board is a collage of images that reflect your aspirations, hopes and dreams. Vision boards are a great way of sorting through what you hope to create in your life and “putting it out there.”

I say that your life was taking shape long before you were born because you carry within you the biological memories of all your forebears.

“serving something that you believe is bigger than the self.”

Let’s start with your own assumptions. You