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Question
Where can I find the wayfinding journal offered by the Center for Career Design?
What is a wayfinding journal?
Answer
No one is destined for one single job in their life. Unfortunately (or fortunately), we cannot put our goals into a GPS and get turn-by-turn directions for our desired life. What you can do is train yourself to pay attention and make your best way forward with the tools you have at hand. We call this “wayfinding."
How to Wayfind
Paying attention to your engagement and energy provides the initial clues to help you find your way. Using a Good Time Journal to track (or log) when you are engaged, energized or bored along with what you are doing during those times forces you to practice paying attention.
This leaves a record that may someday tell a story or show a pattern. Do this daily, or at the very least every few days, for a total of three weeks every semester. Everyone benefits from wayfinding – it helps you understand what makes you confident and what leaves you feeling empty in both big and small ways.
When using your Good Time Journal, be specific about what you are doing. Not just art class, but art class lecture or figure drawing; not just student club meeting, but planning “x” event.
For the engagement and energy gauges, you will draw in the dial pointing at the level you were feeling.
Use the attached Wayfinding Journal to complete your own.