What Color Is Your Parachute? 2021: Your Guide to a Lifetime of Meaningful Work and Career Success

by Richard Nelson Bolles

Am a Person Who…has a certain goal, purpose, or mission in life My Purpose or Sense of Mission for My Life Goal in Filling Out This Petal: To know the moral compass or spiritual values by which you want to guide your life, or the overall goals that inspire you. What You Are Looking For: Some definition of your overall goals, purpose, and/or mission of your life. This may help you pick out the kinds of organizations or companies you’d like to work for, if you find ones that are serving the same mission as yours. Form of the Entries on Your Petal: A description of what sphere of life you want to make better, with some attending details. Example of a Helpful Petal: My purpose in life is to help others through my teaching. I want there to be more knowledge, more compassion, more forgiveness, in those I have worked or lived with, because I have taught them.