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Life Design Worksheets

Staffordshire University Career & Personal Development 2020

Worksheet 1: How’s it going? • Write a few sentences about how it’s going in each of the three areas. • Mark where you are (0 – full) on each gauge.

For example:

0 FULL

Health If you’re not healthy, nothing else in your life works well.

How do you rate your health (mental, body, spirit) at this current moment? Make some notes and then mark the gauge below.

Measure where you feel you are on the health gauge below:

0 FULL

Work Make a list of all the ways you ‘work’ and then gauge your working life as a whole. Work can mean paid work, studying, volunteering, raising a family, housekeeping . . .

Measure where you feel you are on the work gauge below:

0 FULL

Play Play is about activity that brings joy just by doing it. A well-balanced life needs some play. Make a quick list of how you play and then mark the gauge.

Measure where you feel you are on the play gauge below:

0 FULL



Worksheet 2: Engagement Journal Example:

Activity description Engagement Energy

Low High Negative Positive

















Weekly reflection



Worksheet 3: mind mapping example

The example on Worksheet 2 shows that one of the occasions that geography student Sarah was in ‘flow’ was when she was on a field trip in North Wales. So, she decided to mind map ‘being outdoors’. She went off on a few tangents that led nowhere but did pick out a few things to take forward into the next task. She wondered if maybe teaching or being a countryside ranger would be avenues to pursue – neither of which she’d considered before.



Worksheet 5: Prioritising grid

Instructions:

1. List your top 10 career choices in the Section A column – in any order 2. Now compare each career choice against the others and circle which career choice you

prefer in the small boxes at the side of the career choice in Section B. So, if you look at choice 3, for example, there are two boxes to the left. In the first box are the numbers 1 and 3 – compare choice 1 and 3 and circle the one you prefer in the first box. In the second box compare choices 2 and 3 and circle the one you prefer in the next box.

3. In Section C total up how many times you circled each career choice in Section B. Then, in the bottom row, rank each choice based on its score above.

4. Transfer your career choices in the correct order into Section D.

Example: Geography student, Sarah’s, career choices

If you end up with several of the same scores – here there are two 5s, 8s, 3s and 2s - use ¼ and ½ to distinguish between them.



Worksheet 5: Prioritising grid

Source: What Color is Your Parachute 2020. Richard N Bolles

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