What are your particular gifts and how might you allow them more full expression in the world, knowing that this is one of the ways of practicing gratefulness?

Administration, Exhortation, and Teaching seem to be my gifts. As a young child, I always wanted to be a teacher. As a young adult, I wanted to be a psychologist or counselor. What I ended up as is an administrator and my career path has been pretty clear when I color inside those lines.

I am drawn to people who struggle to get started because of the feelings of overwhelm. I seem to have a knack of breaking their path into small steps and encouraging forward movement until they can keep rolling on their own speed.

Since I tend to live more of a hermit lifestyle these days, there is little opportunity to interact personally with others not online. To allow more full expression in the world I could broaden the scope of my own world. I could do this by attending an on-site class, joining an exercise class, or becoming part of a group that whose interests mesh with some of mine.