Self-Reflection

A long time ago, a recruiter told me to write a list of five things professionally and five things personally, using one word each to define what lights you up and makes you feel fulfilled. If you are not doing at least three things from either side of that list, why are you doing it? At the beginning of my career, I realized half the time I was not doing any of those things. I was just doing what looked good on my CV because someone told me that was the path. But whose CV are you creating, yours or someone else's? It probably all started about eight years ago. I used to work in advertising, doing behavior change work. There were lots of campaigns that were going well, and one guy turned around and asked me, what are your hobbies, what do you like doing? I said, I love art and I love dancing. Then I realized I could not remember the last time I did any of those things.