Questions to find your purpose
Question # 1
What is your talent?
What do people tell you that have a talent for?
https://www.billgeorge.org/articles/30-questions-to-help-you-discover-your-true-north/
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
What do people often compliment you on?
https://www.billgeorge.org/articles/30-questions-to-help-you-discover-your-true-north/
What have you gotten noticed for in your life?
https://hbr.org/2017/08/5-questions-to-help-your-employees-find-their-inner-purpose
What do you do better than most people?
https://hbr.org/2017/08/5-questions-to-help-your-employees-find-their-inner-purpose
Question # 2 What are you feeling that your purpose needs to be?
How would you finish this sentence?
“I lose track of time when……….”
When you listen to yourself, what is the call that you hear?
Inspired by Frederic Laloux. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgRBPWIA7fE
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/
What gives you lots of energy?
What do you feel you need to give people?
What do you feel afraid of and love doing?
Who can you not help being?
Inspired by http://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact/ar/2
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
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
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.
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/
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/
Question # 3
What is your most important goal?
https://www.globalgoals.org/
Question # 4 What are your top 3 values?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvcxVzjajA
Question # 5 What do stories of your life tell you?
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
Question # 6 What do people, you help every day, really need?
Why do people want to spend time using your app?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2896485940 Page 175.
Why do people spend their money with you?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2896485940 Page 175.
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
What part of what you do really matters to others 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
Question # 7
What do you think you were put on earth to do?
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/
What were you put on earth to teach?
https://www.billgeorge.org/articles/30-questions-to-help-you-discover-your-true-north/
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