1. Problem Statement
How Might We Help Ekwa (a
young, passionate, risk-taking, deeply spiritual
person) find a way to both make a life and a
living where she can be true to her deepest self
and help others to find and be true to their
inner selves.
(James Toole, Stanford Design Class)

2. MOST PRACTICAL IDEA: Get a life coach.
MOST DISRUPTIVE IDEA: Start a personal trainer
business that combines all your diverse talents—
recreation, spirituality, arts, yoga, --to help people
rediscover themselves.
FAVORITE IDEA: Go onto the street in downtown
Minneapolis and set up a desk with a sign that says
“help me figure out what to do with my life.”

3. • Offer workshops through community ed. on
rediscovering yourself
• Run a community education center in a small town.
• Join the Peace Corps
• Win the lottery
• Find a benefactor
• Start a commune and charge people to come visit for
retreats
• Become an elementary school teacher
• Become a middle school guidance counselor.
• Create a social innovation organization that helps
people maximize their potential.
• Gather mentors that have been able to do what she
wants to do.

4. • Create a world café where she teaches classes on
yoga, educational method.
• Make YouTube videos and channel on discovering yourself.
That features all her different interests.
• Do pet therapy in a hospital
• Start a blog on rediscovering yourself and get sponsors.
• Inherit a million dollars.
• Get a scholarship to do a design thinking degree at
Stanford.
• Bring her inner artist to life and rent her out to others
• Loan her two inner mentors to others.
• Have her two inner mentors stage a debate and put on
YouTube.
• Marry someone who loads of money.

5. • Go on a week-long vision quest to identify her true calling.
• Get a spiritual mentor to help with guidance.
• Become a commercial artist to support all of her passions.
• Meditate every morning for 15 minutes to help find the
answer.
• Talk to people who have faced the same dilemma and how
they resolved it.
• Become a trainer for AmeriCorps
• Teach in a Waldorf School
• Teach in a Montessori School
• Spend a week with her parents discussing her future.
• Invite four of her best friends to go camping for the
weekend and discuss her future.

6. • Meet with a career coach.
• Become a career coach.
• Talk to my wife—she is great at these things.
• Get corporations to spend more money supporting NGO’s
so they can pay better salaries.
• Become a famous painter and use the proceeds to finance
your passions.
• Spend the year volunteering and trying on places that you
think merge with your passions.
• Move home and live with your parents for free while you
pursue answers to these questions.
• Look for Fellowship programs that do the kind of work you
want to do.
• Become a vegetarian and grow you own food to live
cheaply.
• Take Leticia’s class.

7. • Raise chickens to sell and support your passions.
• Start your own YouTube channel to reach others about rediscovering
themselves.
• Go live with your parents and take a year to read and deepen your
understanding of yourself and life.
• Move to a country that has a very low cost of living and do all the things
you want to do.
• Move to another country with a low cost of living and start a coaching
business to help others rediscover themselves.
• Order your two inner mentors to go to work and make some money to
support you.
• Teach people how to find their inner mentors.
• Sit under a sacred tree and meditate like Buddha did until you get an
answer.
• Start a personal trainer business that combines all your diverse talents—
recreation, spirituality, arts, yoga, etc.
• Go onto the street in downtown Mpls and sit at a desk with a sign that
says “help me figure out what to do with my life.”
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