What Color Is Your Parachute?

What You Can Do, What You Can’t

To focus our attention on what we can do, not what we can’t, here’s a useful exercise. Take a piece of paper and divide it into two columns:

I have this skill:	I don’t have this skill:
-	-

Then, look at the (transferable /functional) skills list below, and copy as many skills as you choose onto that piece of paper, putting each skill in the proper column, depending on whether you can do the skill, or cannot. (Or not yet, anyway.) Use additional sheets, as needed.

A LIST OF 246 SKILLS AS VERBS

achieving

acting

adapting

addressing

administering

advising

analyzing

anticipating

arbitrating

arranging

ascertaining

assembling

assessing

attaining

auditing

budgeting

building

calculating

charting

checking

classifying

coaching

collecting

communicating

compiling

completing

composing

computing

conceptualizing

conducting

conserving

consolidating

constructing

controlling

coordinating

coping

counseling

creating

deciding

defining

delivering

designing

detailing

detecting

determining

developing

devising

diagnosing

digging

directing

discovering

dispensing

displaying

disproving

dissecting

distributing

diverting

dramatizing

drawing

driving

editing

eliminating

empathizing

enforcing

establishing

estimating

evaluating

examining

expanding

experimenting

explaining

expressing

extracting

filing

financing

fixing