Take ten minutes to picture yourself living either of the Life Design Models for Plate Spinners. Each of them is described somewhere in the chapter. What would be great about it? What would it be missing for you?
- The Alternating Current Model
- The Learn, Try, Teach, Leave (LTTL) Model
If you are a Plate Spinner, you might want to do this for both of them.
Now do the same, for ten minutes, with one of the careers for Plate Spinners:
- Nonprofit Incubator
- Itinerant Troubleshooter
If you are an unsatisfied Plate Spinner, 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. Who are the Plate Spinners in this group?
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I feel the Alternating Current Model in that some days I have energy for one interest, but not another, and then I find energy for a missing interest on a different day. I’m trying to accept my current state (often in recovery from exercising an interest) rather than force a focus I’m not feeling. I’m trying to accept recovery as a valid interest and a time for maintenance I wouldn’t get to if I had more energy.