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The checklist that follows will allow you to take a personal inventory of your strengths and weaknesses. This inventory is made by you, not anyone else, and for you, as you are now. It consists of unfinished phrases designed to make you think. Obviously they cannot be answered fully in the small space on the page, nor completed in one minute, or perhaps even one day. We suggest that you copy these unfinished sentences into a journal or notebook where you can write about them at length. Even if you don’t write out your answers, we hope you will think about them as you drive, as you cook, as you walk the dog. As you work with them, the truth will come.

The checklist is not all inclusive. Begin our list and then add specifics of your own, keeping in mind that your life is dynamic not stagnant, that your evolving life will not answer the questions in the same manner next year or perhaps even next month. We are growing, and with growth comes insight. Every experience is a life lesson from which you continue to carve out your path. Keep moving, take the journey, don’t stand still and let the elements beat you down. You decide what to keep in your life and what to discard; you decide those things that need some fine tuning and those things that are just fine.

Before you begin, if you make yourself a promise not to divulge your answers to another living soul, you will free yourself from the opinions of others and the fear of external judgment, which will allow you to speak (or write or think about) the truth. And as someone once very adeptly said, “The truth will set you free.”