Now go back to the circled items on the above lists and rate how interested you are in each one of them on a scale of 1 to 10 (1= a little interested, 10= VERY interested). Write down the ten highest numbered items:

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1. If something jumps out at you immediately, then just do it, act on it or at least find out how you can find out more about it.

2. If something sounds interesting, but you’re not sure about it or how to get involved, then talk with other students or your parents and other family members, your high school counselor, a teacher or perhaps someone who is already doing it and ask them to help you find out what it’s all about or about what you might do.

3. Another way of getting information is to do an Internet search with Google or Yahoo.

4. Go talk to someone who is already doing what you think you might want to do.

5. Once you find an activity you like, find a way of learning how to do it, joining it or getting involved. If you like it, then hooray for you! If you don’t, then go on to something else on your top ten list.

6. It’s useful to know that sometimes it takes a while to appreciate and enjoy an activity. The more you get into it, the more enjoyable it becomes. Occasionally, one starts an activity, begins a project or learns a skill, only to find some tangent of it is what really interests you. Developing an interest, a talent or skill is often a journey.