This is your chance to reflect on what you will take away from Chapter 18: Are You a Sampler? 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 18: Are You a Sampler? included the usual ones

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

Do you think you are a Sampler Type? If so, tell us in your comment. Please subscribe to future comments on this page or check back here on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning for new ones.

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Take ten minutes to picture yourself living one of the Life Design Models for Samplers. All of them are described in the chapter. What would be great about it? What would it be missing for you?

• The Smorgasbord Model
• The Quarterly Creative Project Model
• The Everything 101 Model

If you are an unsatisfied Sampler, do this for two of them.

Now do the same, for ten minutes, with one of the Careers for Samplers:

• The Good Enough Job
• Temporary jobs
• Adult education school

If you are an unsatisfied Sampler, you might want to create a Backward Planning Flowchart for moving toward one of these careers.

Write in your Daybook how each of these felt and any 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. Tell us if you are a Sampler.

Please be sure to subscribe to future comments on this exercise or to check back here on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning for new ones.

Use the Next link (up above the title) to continue on to What I Learned from Chapter 18 after you are done adding your comments.

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Read the chapter, then turn to the last page for the Scanner Tool Kit items that best help Samplers. Try at least one of the tools, two if this chapter describes you.

Here are the Scanner Tools recommended for Samplers:

• Tool 1: The Soiree on page 231
• Tool 2: Life’s Work Bookshelf on page 237
• Tool 3: Annual Show-and-Tell Party on page 237

Give us a review of the tool(s) you chose. Add a page in your Daybook for any you found helpful. After you share your experience, read the rest of the comments and reply to a few.

Please be sure to subscribe to future comments on this exercise or to check back here on Wednesday evening or Thursday morning for new ones.

Use the Next link (up above the title) to continue on to Exercise 2: Try the Sampler Life Design and Career after you are done adding your comments.

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