Burnett and Evans recommend sharing your Odyssey Plan alternatives with a group of three to six friends. Ideally, everyone fills out the sheet and shares. When it’s your turn to listen, be sure not to critique or even advise. Just reflect or ask the person sharing to tell you more about one of the points.

Again, the goal here is to realize that there are many different careers and lives within you. There’s no one, right answer.

The authors write: “We all contain enough energy and talents and interest to live many different types of lives, all of which could be authentic and interesting and productive. Asking which life is best is asking a silly question; it’s like asking whether it’s better to have hands or feet.”