Goal: To create your own personal shield. A shield (historically) offers both protection from outside forces, and has decorations that show your (past battles) accomplishments. It can be symbolic of who you are, what is important to you, and what you want other people to see when they look at you. Write or draw things on your shield that represent each of these areas.
What’s on your shield?
1. The best times you ever had. 2. Your accomplishments: Things that you have done that you are proud of. 3. Your most prized possessions. 4. What you would do if you only had one month to live. 5. A descriptive phrase you would want written on your tombstone. 6) A descriptive phrase you would want the least on your tombstone.
What does this mean?
Just like a shield is something everyone can see. The answers that you wrote above are examples of things that you are brave enough to think about yourself and then to share with others. Being willing to honestly look at yourself in terms of how you think and how you behave is another step towards maturity.
1. Do your best times include spending time with family, close friends or yourself;
or partying drinking, drug taking or risky behaviors?
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2. Why do you think it is sometimes difficult to come up with your best
accomplishments, or to list things that you have done that you are proud of?
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3. Why is it hard to place value on some of our smaller accomplishments?
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4. What do your most prized possessions represent (an important gift, a symbol of someone you loved, something that you have worked hard for)?
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5. Are your gifts prized for their cash value, emotional value or usefulness?
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6. Have you ever sold or pawned something that you value? Why did you do it?
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7. Look at what you would do if you had only one month to live.
What is stopping you from doing those things now?
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8. When you think about how you feel, do you relate more to what you want on your tombstone or what you do not want on your tombstone? Why?
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