30 Questions to Ask Yourself When Exploring Your Natural Gifts

1. What do I tend to notice before other people? 2. What kind of problem immediately attracts my attention? 3. What do I instinctively try to improve? 4. What do I often explain to other people? 5. What do people repeatedly ask me to help with?

6. What kinds of subjects have I picked up quickly? 7. What kinds of tasks become easier for me after a small amount of exposure? 8. What do I enjoy figuring out? 9. What kind of complexity can I stay with for a long time? 10. What do I learn outside formal requirements?

11. What did I repeatedly do as a child? 12. What roles did I naturally take in group activities? 13. What responsibilities have followed me through different stages of life? 14. What positive feedback have I heard more than once? 15. When have people trusted me with something important?

16. What kinds of problems do I solve without being asked? 17. What kind of mess do I naturally organize? 18. What kind of confusion do I naturally clarify? 19. What kind of opportunity do I naturally notice? 20. What kind of mistake do I tend to catch?

21. When do other people seem to benefit most from my presence? 22. What do I do that makes another person's work easier? 23. What kind of contribution feels natural but useful? 24. What ability do I underestimate because it feels easy? 25. What would people miss if I stopped doing it?

26. Which ability would become significantly more useful if I developed it? 27. Which natural tendency sometimes creates problems when poorly directed? 28. Which skill seems to grow quickly when I practice it? 29. What environment gives my abilities room to appear? 30. Which capability do I want to investigate rather than merely assume?