We will read the 14 pages of Chapter Twelve, Are You a Plate Spinner? this week. A Plate Spinner is the last of the Cyclical Scanner Types, the ones with ongoing interests. Plate Spinners are problem solvers and trouble shooters who like a full and challenging schedule. If that’s you, you will learn how to balance this with some nondirected thinking.

After we read Chapter Twelve, we will try one or more of the tools that belong in the Plate Spinner’s tool kit and consider the life designs and careers that are a good fit. Remember to check them out even if you’re sure you are one of the Sequential Types or one of the other Cyclical Types.

Here is what we will be doing this week:

Chapter 12, Exercise 1: Try This Fantasy Exercise

Chapter 12, Exercise 2: Try the Plate Spinner Tools

Chapter 12, Exercise 3: Picture a Plate Spinner Life Design and Career

What I Learned from Chapter 12, Are You a Plate Spinner?

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This is your chance to reflect on what you will take away from Chapter 11: Are You a Sybil? and to learn from or contribute to other book club members’ take-aways. You can also pose questions here about the chapter or what you are discovering about yourself.

The exercises we completed in Chapter 11: Are You a Sybil? included

1. Try the Sybil Tools
2. Picture a Sybil Life Design and Career

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Take ten minutes to picture yourself living any one of the Life Design Models for Sybils. Each of them is described somewhere in the chapter. What would be great about it? What would it be missing for you?

• The School Day Model
• The Spy Model
• The Physician Model
• The Random Acts of Passion Model

If you are a Sybil, you might want to do this for each of them.

Now do the same, for ten minutes, with one of the careers for Sybils.

• Multiple income streams
• The Good Enough Job
• Home business
• Umbrella Career
• Consultant

If you are an unsatisfied Sybil, create a Backward Planning Flowchart for moving toward one of these careers.

Write in your Daybook how each of these felt and what great ideas came up while you were daydreaming about them. In a new comment on this page, tell us which ones you tried on and what you discovered about them and about yourself. After you share your experience, read the rest of the comments and reply to a few. Do you have any Sybils in your group?

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Use the Next link (up above the title) to continue on to What I Learned from Chapter 11 after you are done adding your comments.

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