Questions to find your purpose.

1. Questions to
find your purpose

2. Question # 1
What is your most important goal?

3. https://www.globalgoals.org/

4. What do you really want to do? Who do you really want to be?
As you prepare to answer these questions, please take a minute to set
aside all expectations from others, let go of the expectations you have
for yourself, set aside all of what you are good at, what you are capable
of, what you feel you need to do.
Inspired by:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwaldinger/

5. Question # 2
What are your top 3 values?

6. https://issuu.com/frankcalberg/docs/questionstodiscoveryourvalues

7. Question # 3
What do you think
you were put on earth to do?

8. What do you think you were put on this earth to learn?
https://www.billgeorge.org/articles/30-questions-to-help-you-discover-your-true-north/

9. What were you put on earth to teach?
https://www.billgeorge.org/articles/30-questions-to-help-you-discover-your-true-north/

10. Question # 4
What is your talent?

11. https://www.billgeorge.org/articles/30-questions-to-help-you-discover-your-true-north/
What do people tell you that have a talent for?

12. What can you do well that requires little effort?
Inspiration:
https://hbr.org/2017/08/5-questions-to-help-your-employees-find-their-inner-purpose

13. What do people often compliment you on?
https://www.billgeorge.org/articles/30-questions-to-help-you-discover-your-true-north/

14. What have you gotten noticed for in your life?
https://hbr.org/2017/08/5-questions-to-help-your-employees-find-their-inner-purpose

15. What do you do better than most people?
https://hbr.org/2017/08/5-questions-to-help-your-employees-find-their-inner-purpose

16. Question # 5
What are you feeling
that your purpose needs to be?

17. “I lose track of time when……….”
How would you finish this sentence?

18. Inspired by Frederic Laloux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgRBPWIA7fE
When you listen to yourself, what is the call that you hear?

19. When you think 10 years ahead, what is the one thing
you would regret if you had not done it?
https://www.billgeorge.org/articles/30-questions-to-help-you-discover-your-true-north/

20. What gives you lots of energy?

21. What do you feel you need to give people?

22. What do you feel afraid of and love doing?

23. Who can you not help being?
Inspired by
http://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact/ar/2

24. What are you feeling is the right thing for you to do?
Inspiration
https://hbr.org/2017/08/5-questions-to-help-your-employees-find-their-inner-purpose

25. What are you experiencing that you need to do more of?
Inspired by
https://hbr.org/2017/08/5-questions-to-help-your-employees-find-their-inner-purpose

26. How will communities, you feel a part of, be better
in the future because of what you do?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2476687254
Location 1750.

27. Evolutionary purpose means that people grow
into what they need to be.
http://www.reinventingorganizationswiki.com/index.php?title=Evolutionary_Purpose
http://agilitrix.com/2016/04/teal-organization-illustration/

28. When you think 10 years ahead, what is the one thing that you
would always regret not having done if you did not do it?
Adapted from
https://www.billgeorge.org/articles/30-questions-to-help-you-discover-your-true-north/

29. Question # 6
What do stories of your life tell you?

30. When you reflect on stories of your life,
what purpose is hidden there?
Inspiration:
https://hbr.org/2016/03/4-hard-questions-to-ask-about-your-companys-purpose
https://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact/ar/1

31. Question # 7
What do people, you help every day,
really need?

32. Why do people want to spend time using your app?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2896485940
Page 175.

33. Why do people spend their money with you?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2896485940
Page 175.

34. Which of the tasks you do every day are the
most useful for people you help?
https://hbr.org/2017/08/5-questions-to-help-your-employees-find-their-inner-purpose
https://hbr.org/2011/12/first-lets-fire-all-the-managers

35. What part of what you do really matters to other people?
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-makes-work-meaningful-or-meaningless/
http://www.nzz.ch/wissenschaft/bildung/auf-die-einstellung-kommt-es-an-1.18170740

36. Sources of inspiration
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170807-ikigai-a-japanese-concept-to-improve-work-and-life
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-figure-out-your-life-purpose-2014-12
http://creatingminds.org/tools/purposing.htm
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3060596/to-keep-their-best-millennials-companies-need-a-social-purpose
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/03/01/the-founder-of-21st-century-management-peter-drucker
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2372299403
https://hbr.org/2011/03/todays-innovative-idea-can-ris.html
http://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact/ar/1
https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6120331523838275584
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/purpose-comes-from-within-josh-bersin
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Discover-Your-Purpose-Robert-Holden
http://www.mktgsensei.com/AMAE/Strategy/HBR%20on%20Strategy.pdf p. 48.
http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2014/05/02/3-dimensions-of-purpose
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/01/how-to-discover-your-life-purpose-in-about-20-minutes
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/finding-purpose-teacher
https://www.themagicdepartment.com/
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-Your-Life's-Purpose
http://youtu.be/R-66hqoNddk
http://youtu.be/0TkEA3awGnc
http://youtu.be/iAZwvTV3CyQ
http://youtu.be/C8RVV57Mj3g
https://youtu.be/iUdhJ_S_z3w