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

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 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.

While we might learn using an amalgam of visual, auditory, reading and kinesthetic processes, the experience of learning tends to be strongest for us when it activates the learning style with which we are most comfortable.

Abilities often require a considerable amount of education and apprenticeship to develop. Just because you have a natural proclivity toward something doesn’t mean you’ll automatically be expert at it.

Being in your Element takes both aptitude and ability. It involves finding your natural talents and honing them in practice: it is a union of nature and nurture.

Many of us wish we were good at poetry or graphic design or mixology or any of a million other things, but have avoided them because our only experiences at trying to learn them were negative.

There’s another reason why you may not know what you’re good at. Opportunity.

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:

Do not give in to other influences. You are creating a vision of your life, not someone else’s.