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Capture your interests: The last part of looking inward is to take a closer look at how you currently spend your time. This can guide you in where you want to put your time and energy moving forward.

Interest Mapping

The first step for finding focus is looking at where you currently spend your time and what you would like to prioritize more. Map out the experiences that make up your life — your curiosities, interests, and skills — to see how various dots might connect in different ways.

Interest Mapping

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Self Reflection
Time
25 min
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Throughout your life there might be some interests that you always have and some that come and go. Understanding where you spend your time now can give you insight into where you want to focus in the future. Browse the topics below and select any and all that interest you, whether they are simply curiosities or something you already spend a lot of time on.

🐶 Animal rights
✊🏾 black lives matter
👁 Cancer awareness
✅️ conservation
💃🏽 FEMINISM
🏚 Homelessness
🖇 inclusivity
🌆 CLIMATE CHANGE
🔫 Gun Violence
👦🏻 Helping kids
👵🏼 Helping senior citizens
💵 income equality
️🌈 LGBTQ+ rights
🚨 Police Brutality
⚖️ restorative justice
🗽 immigration rights
🌏 the environment
✋🏽 volunteering
💧 water conservation
🎒 education
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Spend More Time
Start by asking yourself what you want to keep doing. Review your interests below and reflect on the following questions:

🐶 Animal rights
✊🏾 black lives matter
👁 Cancer awareness
✅️ conservation
💃🏽 FEMINISM
🏚 Homelessness
🖇 inclusivity
🌆 CLIMATE CHANGE
🔫 Gun Violence
👦🏻 Helping kids
👵🏼 Helping senior citizens
💵 income equality
️🌈 LGBTQ+ rights
🚨 Police Brutality
⚖️ restorative justice
🗽 immigration rights
🌏 the environment
✋🏽 volunteering
💧 water conservation
🎒 education
🎞 Animation
🍥 Anime
🏗 Architecture
🏛 Art history
🏺 Ceramics
🚘 car design
🎨 color
📝 Doodling
✏️ Drawing
📓 Creative writing
👗 Fashion
🛏 Furniture design
🖥 Graphic design
🛋 interior design
💍 jewelry design
🖍 Illustration
👾 MAKING CARTOONS
🖼 PAINTING
📸 Photography
🗿 sculpture
🚧 Street art
🅰️️️ typography
🖼 watercoloring
🗄 Accounting
🏷 advertising
💼 Business
🔢 Crunching numbers
⚔️ Debate
💸 Economics
👨🏽 entreprenurship
✉️ Event planning
💰 FINANCE
💳 investing
📜️ Law
📢 leadership
💵 money
🕸 networking
📑 productivity hacks
📊 Statistics
📉 Stock Market
🍪 Baking
🛠 Building furniture
✂️ collage
🍳 Cooking
📦 CRAFT PROJECTS
👧🏽 Doing hair
💐 Flower arranging
🌳 GARDENING
🌱 Growing things
🐑 knitting
🎲 MAKING GAMES
💄 MAKEUP
🔗 Metalwork
🇯🇵 origami
🖨 printmaking
✍🏼 scrapbooking
👚 sewing
🐉️ tattooing
🌲 Woodworking
🌍 africa
🎎 asia
🐨 australia
🏳️ Country of ...
🥒 culinary arts
💙 ️Culture
🎩 ENGLISH
💶 europe
🏡 Family heritage
🦄 fiction
🌋 Geography
🏰 History of ...
🇮🇳 india
🌽 latin america
👋🏽 non fiction
🤔 philosophy
📖 READING
⛪️ religion
✨ spirituality
✈️ travelling
⌨️ Blogging
🤐 Censorship
🕷 COMICS
📱 Digital media
📽 film
🎟 Film production
🎥 filmmaking
📰 journalism
🎯 Marketing
📹 MAKING VIDEOS
🕹 media training
😂 memes
🕯 poetry
🤳🏽 Social media
💌 storytelling
🎞️ VIDEO EDITING
🌐 web design
🖊 writing
👀 youtube
📘 yearbook
📔 zines
🤺 acrobatics
🎬 Acting
🎧 audio engineering
🥁 Beatboxing
🇷🇺 ballet
🎸 bluegrass
🎪 circus
🤣 Comedy
🎶 Composing
🕺🏼 Dance
💿 DJing
🎭 drama
🎵 HIP HOP
💭 improv
🎹 instruments
🎺 JAZZ
🎤 karaoke
😅 MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH
🔮 magic
⭐️ musical theater
🎻 playing music
😎 rap
👤 stand up
🎙 singing
🎫 theater
👄 voice acting
🎼 writing songs
🚲 Biking
🎒 Backpacking
⛺️ Camping
🗻 Hiking
☮️ Meditation
🏀 BASKETBALL
⚾️ BASEBALL
👟 RUNNING
🛴 SKATEBOARDING
⛷ skiing
⚽️ soccer
🏂 snowboarding
🎾 tennis
🙏🏽 yoga
🏈 football
🛶 rowing
🎽 gymnastics
🏐 volleyball
🏒 hockey
⛰ climbing
⛸ skating
🎣 fishing
🚤 SAILing
🏅 lacrosse
🐎 horseback riding
🥗 Nutrition
⚰️️ anthropology
🤗 caregiving
😷 Cultural norms
😶 Human emotion
😍 Human sexuality
🏩 HOSPITALITY
📣 Leadership
👂🏾listening
🎓 Mentoring
👥 People watching
🔎 Psychology
🗣 Public speaking
🗺 sociology
💬 therapy
🏫 teaching
🔠  language arts
🗝 communication
🌌 Astronomy
🌿 Biology
🔬 Brain science
💑 Chemistry
😁 dentistry
🌎 Environmental science
☠️ Forensic science
🏞 Geology
🚀 space
🐋 Marine biology
🔢 Math
💊 Medicine
🌊 Oceanography
⚛️ Physics
🐵 zoology
🍃 Nature
📐 GEOMETRY
📈 ALGEBRA
🌡 the human body
️👁 neurology
💪🏽 anatomy
💉 veterinary medicine
🍀 botany
🖲 3d modeling
📲 app design
⛓ Coding
💻 computers
📧 css
💾 data visualization
🔌 Electronics
🔧 Engineering
🔐 Hacking
📧 html
♨ ️javascript
🃏 game design
📶 processing
⚙️ programming
🤖 robotics
💎 ruby
🎛 stem
🎮 video games
🌐 web design
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Spend Less Time
Now ask yourself what you want to stop doing. Reflect on the interests that answer the following questions:

🐶 Animal rights
✊🏾 black lives matter
👁 Cancer awareness
✅️ conservation
💃🏽 FEMINISM
🏚 Homelessness
🖇 inclusivity
🌆 CLIMATE CHANGE
🔫 Gun Violence
👦🏻 Helping kids
👵🏼 Helping senior citizens
💵 income equality
️🌈 LGBTQ+ rights
🚨 Police Brutality
⚖️ restorative justice
🗽 immigration rights
🌏 the environment
✋🏽 volunteering
💧 water conservation
🎒 education
🎞 Animation
🍥 Anime
🏗 Architecture
🏛 Art history
🏺 Ceramics
🚘 car design
🎨 color
📝 Doodling
✏️ Drawing
📓 Creative writing
👗 Fashion
🛏 Furniture design
🖥 Graphic design
🛋 interior design
💍 jewelry design
🖍 Illustration
👾 MAKING CARTOONS
🖼 PAINTING
📸 Photography
🗿 sculpture
🚧 Street art
🅰️️️ typography
🖼 watercoloring
🗄 Accounting
🏷 advertising
💼 Business
🔢 Crunching numbers
⚔️ Debate
💸 Economics
👨🏽 entreprenurship
✉️ Event planning
💰 FINANCE
💳 investing
📜️ Law
📢 leadership
💵 money
🕸 networking
📑 productivity hacks
📊 Statistics
📉 Stock Market
🍪 Baking
🛠 Building furniture
✂️ collage
🍳 Cooking
📦 CRAFT PROJECTS
👧🏽 Doing hair
💐 Flower arranging
🌳 GARDENING
🌱 Growing things
🐑 knitting
🎲 MAKING GAMES
💄 MAKEUP
🔗 Metalwork
🇯🇵 origami
🖨 printmaking
✍🏼 scrapbooking
👚 sewing
🐉️ tattooing
🌲 Woodworking
🌍 africa
🎎 asia
🐨 australia
🏳️ Country of ...
🥒 culinary arts
💙 ️Culture
🎩 ENGLISH
💶 europe
🏡 Family heritage
🦄 fiction
🌋 Geography
🏰 History of ...
🇮🇳 india
🌽 latin america
👋🏽 non fiction
🤔 philosophy
📖 READING
⛪️ religion
✨ spirituality
✈️ travelling
⌨️ Blogging
🤐 Censorship
🕷 COMICS
📱 Digital media
📽 film
🎟 Film production
🎥 filmmaking
📰 journalism
🎯 Marketing
📹 MAKING VIDEOS
🕹 media training
😂 memes
🕯 poetry
🤳🏽 Social media
💌 storytelling
🎞️ VIDEO EDITING
🌐 web design
🖊 writing
👀 youtube
📘 yearbook
📔 zines
🤺 acrobatics
🎬 Acting
🎧 audio engineering
🥁 Beatboxing
🇷🇺 ballet
🎸 bluegrass
🎪 circus
🤣 Comedy
🎶 Composing
🕺🏼 Dance
💿 DJing
🎭 drama
🎵 HIP HOP
💭 improv
🎹 instruments
🎺 JAZZ
🎤 karaoke
😅 MAKING PEOPLE LAUGH
🔮 magic
⭐️ musical theater
🎻 playing music
😎 rap
👤 stand up
🎙 singing
🎫 theater
👄 voice acting
🎼 writing songs
🚲 Biking
🎒 Backpacking
⛺️ Camping
🗻 Hiking
☮️ Meditation
🏀 BASKETBALL
⚾️ BASEBALL
👟 RUNNING
🛴 SKATEBOARDING
⛷ skiing
⚽️ soccer
🏂 snowboarding
🎾 tennis
🙏🏽 yoga
🏈 football
🛶 rowing
🎽 gymnastics
🏐 volleyball
🏒 hockey
⛰ climbing
⛸ skating
🎣 fishing
🚤 SAILing
🏅 lacrosse
🐎 horseback riding
🥗 Nutrition
⚰️️ anthropology
🤗 caregiving
😷 Cultural norms
😶 Human emotion
😍 Human sexuality
🏩 HOSPITALITY
📣 Leadership
👂🏾listening
🎓 Mentoring
👥 People watching
🔎 Psychology
🗣 Public speaking
🗺 sociology
💬 therapy
🏫 teaching
🔠  language arts
🗝 communication
🌌 Astronomy
🌿 Biology
🔬 Brain science
💑 Chemistry
😁 dentistry
🌎 Environmental science
☠️ Forensic science
🏞 Geology
🚀 space
🐋 Marine biology
🔢 Math
💊 Medicine
🌊 Oceanography
⚛️ Physics
🐵 zoology
🍃 Nature
📐 GEOMETRY
📈 ALGEBRA
🌡 the human body
️👁 neurology
💪🏽 anatomy
💉 veterinary medicine
🍀 botany
🖲 3d modeling
📲 app design
⛓ Coding
💻 computers
📧 css
💾 data visualization
🔌 Electronics
🔧 Engineering
🔐 Hacking
📧 html
♨ ️javascript
🃏 game design
📶 processing
⚙️ programming
🤖 robotics
💎 ruby
🎛 stem
🎮 video games
🌐 web design
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Next Steps
Reflect on what you’ve learned about your curiosities, interests, and skills. Do you want to change how you spend your time? What’s the first step you will take to make that happen? You can always update your interests as you prioritize the ones that matter most to you.

REFLECT

WHAT ARE YOUR NEXT STEPS?

example next steps

1. I want to get more involved in activism — I’m going to try to watch a few videos a week to learn more about racial justice.
2. I really like visual arts. I will experiment with making posters to put around the school.
3. I’m going to stop swimming lessons. I’m so overwhelmed. It will be nice to get some time back to focus on the things that matter to me most.
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Take ownership of your time

There can be pressure to pursue certain interests or develop particular skills, but you are ultimately in charge of how you spend your time. If there are interests you want to spend less time on, ask yourself why you are still doing it. Is it possible to stop? What steps would you need to take?

Prioritize what brings you joy

Which activities or interests bring you joy? Create dedicated moments where you can spend time doing them— maybe 10 minutes right when you wake up or 1 hour on Saturdays. It can be a small window, but be intentional about making this time for yourself.

Build a skill together

Is there someone in your life who shares an interest or curiosity with you? This might be an opportunity to keep each other accountable. Make a plan together to spend time on this interest and find ways to help each other grow interests into skills.