You don’t need a PhD of Advocacy & Care to be an advocate. Just look inward.
You might even be using skills in your day to day life and not even recognized them as transferable talents. By identifying our strengths—and our challenges—we can recognize what we do best and where we need support. For example, personal strengths could be a diplomatic demeanor, natural leadership abilities, or a positive attitude. Personal challenges might be organizational skills, public speaking, or a compromised back.
Take inventory of your comfort zone, of all your abilities. Write down answers to the following questions (this is just for you – there is no judge and there will be no grade):
- Who am I?
- What am I good at?
- What are my job skills?
- What do I like to do?
- What do I want to learn?
- What do I avoid?
- Why?
- What do I want help with?
- Who can help me?
- Where do I find joy?
Page one of becoming an advocate is choosing the kind of advocate you want to be. You decide where you will be the most effective based on your innate and learned capacities. You dictate the action. You write the story. The next step is learning to tell it.
Until then, you take care.
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