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Inspiration Café - Inspiring Creative Career Design Listed below are suggested books, web sites and exercises to inspire, motivate and move you to design a career and life that works for you--inside and out.
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Final question: During the course of these exercises, did you have any revelations about your work? What you're passionate about? What types of activities engage you on all levels? If not, be patient and keep at it. The answers are there, you often just need to get quiet enough in order to hear them. Recommended
Books All titles by author/coach Cheryl Richardson All
titles by author/coach Martha Beck Helpful
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Swinging
in a hammock (or playground swing) and letting your mind wander,
recollecting how you used your creativity as a child-Drawing? Singing?
Telling stories? Making up games? Exploring the outdoors? 
Buying
a small notebook or journal to serve as your "idea keeper"; anytime
you have a great idea, wild notion or intuition about something
(particularly in relationship to career) record it in the idea keeper.
Keep the notebook with you at all times and review it weekly; watch
as you start to see patterns, themes and threads of commonality
emerge.
Calling
a sibling or parent and ask them what excited you as a child? What
did you want to be when you grew up? Ask them to share a favorite
childhood story about you. 
Volunteering
at a local organization whose mission you feel passion about (i.e.
working with children, environmental awareness, the homeless, AIDS
patients or social justice-related causes, etc.).
Writing
a letter of appreciation to yourself, applauding your strengths
and listing all your attributes and things you're most proud of
accomplishing to date (if its helpful, pretend you're writing this
to "you" at age 16). 
Thinking
about what you're passionate about in life-gardening, cooking, world
peace, music, etc.--and draw a picture, create a collage or take
a photograph capturing what this passion looks like to you. Use
crayons or colored pens and go wild. Tape this picture up in your
home to remind you of this feeling/theme.
Reserving
Saturday or Sunday afternoon to go to a nature preserve or wilderness
area by yourself. See how much you observe when you become really
quiet. Let all the chatter in your mind melt away. What do you hear?
Smell? See? Feel? Bring a notebook and record your observations.
Writing
a fictional short story just for fun--it could be science fiction,
fantasy, romance or futuristic in nature. Let your mind serve as
an explorer, mining for new ideas, images and scenarios.