Ilana Golan

So this exercise is designed for you to be like, dang, okay, yo, that's me, okay?

So if you have a piece of paper and a pen, this is just going to be kind of rough.

It's kind of like whatever comes to you first, you just write it down.

You think to yourself, how many years did it take you to figure out what you know?

This is an example.

How many years did it take me to be a really great encourager?

You know, it took me, I was in ministry for 20 years, so I wrote down the number 20.

But how many years have you been in your career to like know what you know?

Because there's nuance to what you know.

The next is, give me a rough number of how many conferences, seminars, classes,

What courses have you taken?

You know, if you went to college or post-grad, or have you been required to go to conferences like I was in my job, previous job?

You think about it, right?

Like sometimes it's a couple of years, sometimes it's more.

And then there's online classes.

Maybe you bought courses.

Think about how many, just roughly, like it could be 20, 30, 50 experiences that you've had.

It's kind of looking like a lot, right?

Next is how many books have you read on your topic?

This is probably something that you aren't thinking a lot about, but you probably have a lot of books on your bookshelves that other people haven't really bought, but you do because you dig it.