Acquire Skills | Adventure |
Build Relationships | Building Competitive Advantages |
Building Trust / Reputation | Calculated Risk Taking |
Career Change | Coaching / Mentoring |
Community & Responsibility | Creative Expression |
Cultivate Character Traits | Cultivate Grit & Resiliency |
Cultural Immersion | Design Environments |
Design Processes | Design Products |
Develop Knowledge / Know-how | Developing Humor & Wit |
Diy Projects | Doing Good |
Education | Engaging in Competition |
Epic Experience | Establishing a Household |
Experiencing Music, Film & Art | Experiments |
Expressing Gratitude | Facing a Fear |
Fitness & Exercise | Freedom & Independence |
Friendship & Comradery | Fulfilling a Role |
Improve Decision Making | Improve Living Environment |
Improve Quality of Life | Increase Work Quality |
Introspection | Investing |
Language Acquisition | Leadership Experience |
Learning | Lifestyle Changes |
Make a Decision | Management Experience |
Mastering a Talent | Nature |
Networking | Offload a Responsibility |
Overcome Character Flaws | Overcoming a Bad Habit |
Overcoming a Dull / Unproductive Routine | Participation in Culture / Subculture / Super Culture |
Performance Art | Political Participation |
Professional Development | Promotions |
Prototyping | Public Speak Experience |
Pursuit of Health & Wellness | Pursuit of Hobbies & Interests |
Pursuit of Joy (i.e. Play) | Quality Time |
Reading | Recognize / Learn From Failure |
Redemption & Forgiveness | Reducing Stress |
Reducing Work Turnaround Time | Reinvention / Challenging Assumptions |
Research | Sideline Negativity |
Small Business Growth | Social Events |
Solve a Problem | Start a Business |
Start a Family | Storytelling |
Sustaining Relationships | Take On Responsibilities |
Thinking | Travel |
Trusting Others |
Learning Opportunities
Opportunities to pursue knowledge, acquire skills and master a talent. This includes formal education such as college or university and informal learning such as self-study. Learning can be a lifelong thing such that these opportunities can be pursued at any age.
Career Opportunities
Opportunities to begin, change or improve a career. Career opportunities are relative to your goals and can involve earning less to be happier in some way.
Social Opportunities
Opportunities to meet people, socialize and to build relationships. For example, starting a family or a household.
Cultural Opportunities
Opportunities to participate in culture and to live a cultured life. For example, preparing traditional meals at home.
Personal Projects
Initiating your own projects. This can include productive, educational or personally rewarding projects. Personal projects can involve other people but are generally small scale efforts that are directed by you. For example, starting a vlog on some topic you find interesting.
Growth Opportunity
Taking on challenges or overcoming problems in order to grow as a person. For example, switching into a more difficult academic program that will require many more hours of study each week.
Personal Development
Steps that you take to broaden your horizons or to become more productive. For example, becoming more engaged with the political process in your community.
Summary
Personal opportunities are possibilities that are open to an individual at a point in time to do something positive. This includes educational, career, social, productive and cultural opportunities.
