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1. Let's Start: [MUSIC] Welcome to my
new class on Skillshare. This class is about finding
hidden or unhidden skills. By the help of
eight simple steps, you will learn how to find new paths and defining
new life goals. Having a goal in life
is important not only because of general happiness and the feeling of achievement, but also it reduces
stress and anxiety. From time to time, all of us feel uncertain and the things that we do
might feel mundane. That's why we need
new experiences and new life paths to make us
more self-centered and happy. This class is for
everyone who wants to get a clear picture about
their full potential. My name is Masho Margishvili and I'm an artist, designer, illustrator, and founder of a parallel universe
called Masholand. My previous classes on Skillshare
were about creativity, illustration,
characters, and so on. But this class is going
to be a bit different. I have been figuring
out my life since I was very young and I changed
my professions many times. Every time I got stuck, I used my own methodology
to get unstuck. In this class, I'm going to teach you my methods, my tips, and tricks of how
you can unleash your full potential and how you can know what
are your skills, what are your goals,
and how you can combine them to determine
new life paths. You don't need any special
tools to complete the class. Only thing you need
is a pen and paper, and you don't even need to print out my templates that I
provide during the class., you can create your own. Get ready and see you
in the next class.
2. Your Class Project: Thank you for
joining this class. Here I will teach you
a couple of tips and tricks that help me throughout the years to determine my
future steps and paths. Below the video you'll find few templates that
are PDF files, and those files will help you
to organize your thoughts. The first template is going
to be about your skills, dreams, needs, and etc. Second template will be about your final goals that we will come up with through
out the class. Finally, the third template
will help you to find resources that will help you to explore those new
skills and new goals. At the end of the class, you can submit your
project by going to Project and Resources
page and there you can push create a new project button and follow the steps to
upload your project. By sharing your final
results will help you to get feedback not only from me but from other
students as well. There are no skills necessary
to take this class, it doesn't matter if you are
a person who already has goals or if you are the one who is feeling lost right now. But all of us at some
point in our life need a new exciting paths that will give us happiness and
the feeling of achievement. At first, we will
start by filling out the first templates that
you can find down below, and we will go
through everything together to make sure
that you got everything, and then we will open
the second file. This file will be
the one that you can print out later and you can even hang on the wall if
you want to have your future goals in
front of your eyes. Finally, the third template
will help you to know the resources and maybe
online sources that you can learn and expand your
new goals and skills. From my experience, it is
necessary to have properly formatted written goals
because of many reasons. First of all, the
life journey is more enjoyable when you
know your destination, and secondly, knowing
your goals reduce your anxiety and
make you happier. This class will give you few tools that you can
use in future as well, and also it will give you a new meaning that you
can proceed in life. I'm going to use iPad
to fill in the form, but you can also print it out
and write it down by hand. Finally, if you are ready and if you are
motivated to continue, let's get it started.
3. Goals: [MUSIC] Before we start
working on template, I'd like to briefly
overview the type of goals that will help you to
work on your template later. All of us have different goals, but I wanted to determine fugal types that are
common for everyone. There are nine main
categories or types of goals. One is relationship types. Those could be relationships with your family
members, friends, people that you
love or don't love [LAUGHTER] The second type
is educational goals. Those can be going to the
university, as school, or learning online, like you're learning
right now on Skillshare. The third type is
personal development. It includes everything
like mindfulness or working on yourself to grow as a person or
anything pretty much. The fourth type is career goals. Those are the ones that nowadays have the biggest emphasis. But I don't think
that these type of goals are more important
than any other. The fifth type is
psychological goals. These goals include everything
about your mental health. The sixth type is
a lifestyle goals. Lifestyle goals could be anything starting
from cooking and baking to doing yoga
and meditating. The eighth type
is leisure goals, and it could include anything that will
help you to unwind. It could be the ways how you want to spend your
holidays and vacations, or it could be any simple
life steps that you use to relax and spend
your free time. The ninth type is the
retirement goals. Those are the ones that mostly young people don't think about. To be honest, I don't
think about it a lot, but probably we should
because it needs a lot of preparation ahead, financial preparation or
just advanced planning. Now I think that we're ready for the next step. Let's dive in.
4. Template Overview: For this class, we
have three templates, and each of them serve
different purposes. It is very important to write down your thoughts
because when you do so, it is much easier to make
sense of your thoughts. I have been using written
techniques throughout my life, and I started making these templates for myself
when I was 16 years old. Later, I discover that
those were really helpful for my friends
as well when I shared those
techniques with them. Those techniques will help
you to connect the dots, and maybe you will discover some hidden skills you
didn't know existed. The first file will help you to determine your existing skills, your needs, your wants, or your haves or have-nots. Then, when we will move to the second video file,
the second template, you will have a chance to combine those skills and
see what is lacking, and then determine what
you want to do next and which goal to choose for
your future steps and pace. Finally, the third template will help you to know how
you can proceed them, how you can learn new skills, how you can expand yourself and your goals to achieve them
and to be happier in future. We will start next video with the first template
and the first step, so open it and let's
dive in. [MUSIC]
5. Step 1: Your Skills: All of us have different skills. Some are primary skills and
some are secondary skills. Primary skills are
the ones that are obvious for you and
for others too. Those may be a creative skills, business skills, social
skills, or whatever. But the secondary skills
are the hidden ones, the ones that you haven't
noticed them yet, or maybe some other
people notice them, but you have no idea
that you have them. It is very important to
find them and to direct them in order to find
its full potential, I distinguished a
few skill categories that will help you to
determine your skills. But if you need more space, feel free to take more
paper and write on them. As I mentioned earlier, I'm going to use my iPad
to fill in the form. But you might have
printed out form or you can use digital
softwares to do so. First of all, we
have your skills. Probably the first
things come to your mind are your
primary skills. Start with primary skills and then continue with
secondary skills. If you need any help, you can also call your
friends or relatives, or family members, or your colleagues and
ask them if there is anything that they think
that you know, the best. Or maybe also sometimes
people give you compliments about
certain things that you never thought
that was your scale. Think about all these occasions and start filling in the gaps. The skill categories are
tools skills, social skills, business skills,
technical skills, creative skills, cognitive,
physical skills, and other. Tools skills. Those are digital
or analog tools. Those can be drills or hammers, as well as digital
softwares like Photoshop, Illustrator, or any other. Social skills are the ones that help us build
relationships. Those can be the caring for elderly people or
people in need. Those also can be the
way you make friends. You might be super
extroverted person who finds it very easy to find common things with
everyone that they meet and anything that is
connected to socialization. Business skills are
management, marketing, or any other
business-related skills. Technical skills
could be engineering, product design, or
computer science. Creative skills are the
ones that probably on skillshare most of the
people can relate. Those are drawing, illustration, animation, music writing,
or storytelling. Cognitive skills are something like visual or audio perception, working memory, focused
attention, and etc. Physical skills
are the ones that keep your body in shape, such as sports, physical activities such
as hiking, doing yoga. This skills, we
can`t categorize, you can write them down
under other skills. If you need any extra pages, feel free to use them. In the next video, we will exercise some
gratefulness practices, and we're going to
write down our haves, the things that we have in life.
6. Step 2: Your 'Haves': Most people underestimate
what they have in life. Even the saddest is person might have so many things
to be grateful for. In this step, we're going to write down everything
that we feel grateful for or everything that you might not
feel grateful for, but you are still having them. It can be something
like your appearance, your sense of style. It could be that you have
family members that love you or something like you have a house to live in and anything
that comes to your mind. All those notes can be
very private to you. The most important
thing is that you are honest to yourself so the final results
are real for you. Now it's time to move
on to the Step 2 and to open the next page
of the first template. Here you will find
just your haves and the lines with numeric and you can just write down anything that
comes to your mind. Feel free to add as
many lines as you need. For instance, I feel
happy that I have family, friends, I have a home, I have a boyfriend. [LAUGHTER] All of
these are connected to my social skills and
my personal life. But later it's going to
get deeper and deeper. [LAUGHTER] [MUSIC] The second step is done so
let's move to the next step.
7. Step 3: Your Wants: [MUSIC] For this
step, we are going to write down our wants. Wants are the things that are very easy for us to determine because those are the ones
that we think about the most. But sometimes some wants can be scary because they
might seem unrealistic. For this exercise, you shouldn't be afraid to write
down any wants that you have and you don't have to share
it with anyone else. In my opinion, the
main difference between wants and
dreams are that wants are more about
the near future wants and the dreams
are more long term, something that we
want for the future, for five years ahead
of us and so on. For instance, you
might want to read 10 books this year [LAUGHTER]
or next two months, but you might dream to read at least 100 books a
year until you die. [LAUGHTER] This
video is on Timelab, so if you need more time, feel free to pause anytime and continue whenever
you feel comfortable. [MUSIC] Are you ready to move
on to the next video? If yes, then we're going to
start writing down our needs.
8. Step 4: Your Needs: [MUSIC] Needs are usually the life aspects that
help us survive, but it can also be the
things that keep us going. Under the needs section, you can write something
that you need to have hope or love or you
need to have dreams. But also if you write something like I need luxury
in order to survive, that wouldn't be correct. You might need to write
financial stability instead. The luxury would be more into the want category rather
than need category. Let's fill out the gaps and
then move to the next step, which is going to
be your big dreams. [LAUGHTER] [MUSIC] Now only one step is left to finish this template. Let's move to the next
video and complete it.
9. Step 5: Your Dreams: When it comes to writing
down your dreams, it's very important to open
our minds and go back to our childhood state
because children are very curious and they are
not afraid to dream big. In this case, it would be much better and
more beneficial for you if you can just dream about everything that you might want. Even if it's very unrealistic. Something like, I want to be an astronaut right now
and you are 50-year-old or you want to be
a ballet dancer and you don't have any
physical skills per se, but the dreams determine
your personality and your inclinations more
and that's why it's important to write anything
down that comes to your mind. This page is a bit
different than the others. Instead of writing
everything in a linear way, you can use these lines to write the dreams ahead
of them or below them. If you need extra lines, you can always add some. You can draw on top of the page. If you completed this exercise, it means that your
first template is done. Well, we've finished most of the things that we
wanted to finish right now. Congratulations and move
to the next video to see a new template and to complete
this journey in a way. See you in the next class.
10. Step 6: Expandable Skills: [MUSIC] In the previous video, we completed the main
body of the class, and now it's time to see
your expandable skills. What it means, it means that we're going to go to
this skills page, the first page and then we're going to see which are
the skills that we want to expand or which do we see ourselves
pursuing in future. For instance, in my case, I wrote down guitar skills. I used to play guitar, but I don't play
it anymore and I almost forgot how to do it, so I'd like to know more and I'd like to renew my
skills in that area. I'm going to mark guitar
skills and also if you have anything similar that you
are lacking your skills at, then know you can mark
those skills as well. To better organize this section, it's much better to take different color
of pen or pencil, or if you are writing down
those sessions digitally, it's better to choose different
color of pen as well. At first, open your
skills page and see what's lacking
there. Well, let's see. I'd like to expand my spray paint skills and I'm going to circle it or you
can mark it as you'd like. I think those are
enough for now. If you're ready to move
on to the next step, then open the
expandable skills page, which is the page 6
of this template and let's move all the marked
skills to this page. If you have this similar
results as I do, those together look pretty odd. In order to find something
common in all of them, it's better to go
to your wants page, which is on page 3, and see if you have anything that you can
take from wants page, then goes to your
final expandable page. I haven't read more books, which is related to
my writing skills. Another thing I'd
like to mark is be more active physically, which is connected to my swimming passion.
[LAUGHTER] Lets say so. Also do a mural everywhere I go, I can go with spray
paint skills. Record my songs, is also
related to my music skills. I'm going to mark those on expandable skills page
as well so at page 6, to make sure that those have something in common
with my wants. My skills and my wants are
somehow related to each other. Finally, you might need to
go on your dreams page, which is on the page 5, and see here as well if there is something in
common with your final page, and make sure to mark them
so it's easier for you to organize and find them
whenever you need them. What's interesting here is that sometimes we know that
we need something, we need to develop
certain skills, but actually we don't want them. In this exercise we're
going to focus on what we actually want and what
will make us happier. Here is really important to
look at the skills that you chose and actually determine which one you would
like to pursue. Because sometimes we know
that we need to learn a few skills or we are
lacking certain skills, but we don't have any will to continue and to learn
more about them. But in this case, it's really important to
look at them and think, if you want to learn them, if they will make you happier. Now I have five skills that
I marked based on my wants, skills, and dreams. Let's look at them and think
which one I want to pursue. I have spray paint skills, music skills, animation,
writing, and swimming. Actually, I'd like to
pursue all of them, but it's better to prioritize them in order to
continue my path. First of all, I'd like to
improve my spray paint skills, but also it's easier to
learn more because this is one of my primary occupations right now to paint murals. I'll give spray paint
skill number 1. Music skills probably
the second priority. Then third one will
be writing for me. Fourth one will be animation. The fifth one will be swimming. Now you have a new set of exciting skills that need
your further exploration. With this, you completed the most important part of
the class so congratulations. Only two steps are left
to complete the class, so don't give up now and
move to the next video.
11. Step 7: New Goals and Potential Paths: [MUSIC] As we chose
new set of skills that need further explorations, now it's time to
categorize them. Let's open next template, which is new goals
and potential paths. There you will see few circles
which will help you to visually categorize and
structure your new skills. You can use each circle
to categorize the skills. For instance, if
your chosen skills were painting, drawing, animation, illustration, those can go in one category
called creative skills. You can write on top of the
circle creative skills and inside write down
those set of skills. If you need to add
additional bubble, feel free to do so
or you can also use a new page to draw new bubble and write
new categories down. The circles will help
you to visually see your chosen skills and
prioritize them when needed. You can also print out the entire template and hang
this paper on the wall, so anytime you feel lost
or you need direction, or you simply forget
what you've chosen, you can always look
at those templates and it will give you direction. Now let's open the
template. Here it is. Also, open the last page of the previous template which is expandable skills, page 6. I have five skills there. I don't know how many
skills you have, but I'm sure you
already have them written and now we can
write them in the bubbles. In my case, spray
paint, music skills, animation, and writing can
go under one category, which is creative skills. But swimming will go to another category which
is physical skills. Category number 1 for me will be creative skills and
category number 2 will be physical skills. Then write down the
skills according to their numbers that you gave
them in the previous video. The priority number one for
me was spray paint skills. The priority number 2
was writing skills. The third one was music skills. Fourth, animation. The fifth and the final skill I wanted to develop
was swimming skills. Here is how my categories look. Finally, look at your new
goals and paths and think, if you actually, actually want to improve
them as soon as possible. In my case, to be
totally honest, animation is something
that I see myself doing in future and
not at the moment. I have some basic knowledge
in animation and right at the moment I prefer to develop other skills
rather than animation, so I'm going to delete
animation from this graph. Let's move to the next lesson and open the final template.
12. Step 8: Sources for Growth: [MUSIC] During this class, we analyzed, we dreamt, and we went down
to the memory lane to explore our hidden skills, to unleash them, and
to set our new goals. But now it's time for more
practical applications. That's why we need our
last third template which will be about resources
and sources in general, where you can explore and
you can learn more about those new skills which will help you in future to
achieve the goals. When it comes to the skills, it's important to look
what you've chosen and think about where you can
learn those skills from. Do you know anyone who
knows those skills and can give you pointers
and tips about them? Can you search them online via open sources and
read about them? Or maybe you can learn it from Skillshare or other
online platforms. Just open the previous template and look at the skills
that you've chosen and it will be more
clear for you to understand where can
you proceed next. In my case, I have spray paint, writing skills, music
skills, and swimming chosen. In case of spray paint, it's more practical knowledge. In my case, I'm going to ask my friends who use
spray paint to give me some tips and then trial and fail is the way to go. In case of writing skills, it's important to read more books and to
start writing as well, but Skillshare is a
great source where many experienced writers tell and share their experiences, so I'm going to do it
on Skillshare as well. Let's move to the last
template, learning sources, which looks very
simple like this, and write down the sources where you can learn
those things. At first, I'm going
to write skill name, and then below,
I'm going to write the places where I can
learn those skills at. [MUSIC] After you write down all the sources, it's important to find
out about them more. Instead of just theoretically
writing them down, just go on specific websites, or give a call to a
specific teacher, reach out to your friends who might know more
about those skills. Also, start small. Don't pressure
yourself too much. Just one step at a time, will help you to achieve
much more than to try overdo things
and never get there. The templates are
finished and let's see what we've done
in the next video.
13. Wrap-up: Congratulations on
completing the class. You probably already
have a new set of skills that you can
explore in the future. During this class, we
used eight steps to redefine life goals and pets. Now I would really
appreciate it if you can leave a review and
upload your project. You can create project through Projects
and Resources page. You just need to push, Create a New Project button, and then follow the steps. If you don't want to
upload the project, you can also tag me on the
social media @masholand, and I will see it and I will
share it with other people. If you have any questions
at all during the class, you can always write me in the discussions page and I will respond to you
as soon as possible. Thank you for taking the time
to watch this class and I wish you the best of luck
in your new life journeys.
Masho Marg, Multidisciplinary Artist & Designer
