Transferring skills or talents from one area of your life to another by first identifying your talents and then applying them in new areas, thereby enhancing the initial competency and enabling you to better meet goals in all parts of your life, can help to strengthen your skill in:

 
 
 
 
 
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By implementing creative strategies to pursue harmony between work and the rest of life, Sandberg demonstrates the skill of:

Selecting a one-hour time slot in which you will not use any technology—no internet, no smartphone, no electronic connectivity—and then considering how both you and others were affected by this…

Creating visual images of the connections among different strands of an idea in ways that allow you to look at a large amount of information about a subject on one page in a holistic way in order to…

Listing the names of the three to five people who matter most to you in each domain of your life, describing one thing that you can do to provide some kind of help for some or all of these people or…

Identifying three or four significant events in your life that taught you something about yourself or shaped the person you are, identifying the tension in each experience and how you dealt with it…

Identifying the important roles you play in each area of your life, thinking about the type of person you wish to become in each of those roles, and then identifying the one or two main features of…

Thinking expansively about how a task you do contributes to the well-being of others, reflecting on the meaning of what you do, and recognizing how even mundane tasks hold meaning can inspire you to…

Springsteen’s pursuit of self-knowledge through counseling—and his public sharing about his journey—destigmatized counseling and opened doors for people, especially men, who might not otherwise seek…

Exploring alternative means to achieving goals by changing a pattern of behavior that you already use, and then working to understand your fears about that change and the pros and cons of switching up…

When Sandberg recounted an experience about herself and two other students attending a college history course that highlighted the confidence gap between female overachievers and male achievers, she…

By growing the Women of Silicon Valley gatherings into a community of friends, tech executives, venture capitalists, other mothers, book club friends, former colleagues, and family members, Sandberg…

In the aftermath of 9/11, Springsteen struggled to come to terms with what had occurred. He produced songs to express the grief and hope he found in himself, his family, and his community. Not only…

When Greitens took what he gained in different parts of his life (the attitude and skills he had acquired as a boxer, the knowledge and insight gleaned from his time as a humanitarian worker, the…

Thinking of a skill you could teach to someone and offering to do so, or telling someone about a recent accomplishment and what you had to learn in order to succeed, serves to create opportunities for…

By identifying a goal that either directly or indirectly benefits at least one other person, discovering how your efforts might help them, and then committing to providing that help, you can…