A hobby is pretty much a job that you don t get pa…

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If you've been following along on my retirement transition journey, you know that a big part of what I've been working on is identifying hobbies that engage me and challenge me and, you know, sort of occupy me. I had a handful of hobbies when I retired and I realized pretty quickly that I had sort of outgrown them and just lost interest in them. So on my journey to find my new hobbies, I read four or five books, watched countless videos and read articles. And one of the things that sort of bugged me about all those resources is they're just all laundry lists of things like, do you like exercise? Do you like cooking? Do you like swimming? And it's like, I mean, I can do that. What I really need is a systematic approach to identifying. The fundamentals of what I enjoy doing. And as I was going through all the books that I had read this morning, trying to pull away what gems that I could from those books, it occurred to me, I already have a tool for this. It's a tool that we used back in the business to help people determine what their perfect job might be. And it's from a book called What Color Is Your Parachute? And the exercise is called the flower exercise. And basically in the book, they organize. The core parameters of what makes you like or dislike a job into these seven petals of a flower. And I thought it might make a lot of sense to use that exercise to identify what it is that might engage me in a hobby. Because I mean, a hobby is basically a job that doesn't pay you. You know, it has enough carryover and similarities. And it's a great exercise. And I think that the seven petals exercise, the flower exercise should help most people find a new hobby. So I thought I would do a series of videos on the flower exercise. And I won't do it in one big, long video because I've received some candid feedback on the length of my videos. So I thought instead of doing one 10 minute video, I would do maybe 10 or 12, one or two minute videos. and that way you can kind of digest it in chunks instead of having to watch one big monolithic video. So we're going to be going through the seven petals of the flower exercise from the book What Color Is Your Parachute?