WHERE DO I BEGIN

The THE THIRD AGE Life Planning Toolkit published by Civic Ventures offers some key questions for beginning your look inward. Embark on your self-discovery by answering these questions?

• What are my strengths? Gifts? Talents? Skills? Assets?
• What are my passions and purpose?
• Who am I when I am at my best?
• Where have I been and how does that affect where I want to go?
• What have the difficult times and failures taught or given me?
• What do I want to leave behind?
• What else do I bring to the to the process?
• What is the "Good Life" for me? Where? With whom?

There are online personal self-assessment resources available to guide you through a more in-depth process. An example can be located at www.rileyguide.com/assess.html