Purpose (questions)

Ask yourself these questions…

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How is life calling me to serve it?

  • What is my why in life?
  • We are each given the chance to leave a unique imprint on the world. What will be mine?
  • What should I do with my life?
  • How can I make my life more meaningful, starting today?
  • What would I do if I could not fail and had unlimited potential?
  • Your purpose can be discovered or re-discovered by asking, “What human problem do I exist to solve?” Zach Mercurio
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What is most important to me?

  • If I were to write my own obituary, what would be most important to include?
  • What legacy would I like to leave?
  • If I could get a message across to a large group of people. Who would those people be? What would my message be?
  • What causes do I strongly believe in? Connect with?
  • What am I most willing to put effort into?
  • Whose faces do I see when you think about love?
  • What taps into a deep burning yes for me?
  • How do you want to be remembered?
  • With a year to live, what would I focus on?
  • What causes am I most passionate about?
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What do I love to do?

  • What makes me feel great about myself?
  • What am I naturally good at?
  • What were my favorite things to do in the past? What about now?
  • If I had to teach something, what would I teach?
  • What activities make me lose track of time?
  • What energises me and fills me up?
  • What activities make me feel fully alive and invigorated?
  • What qualities do I enjoy expressing the most in the world?
  • When have I felt most fulfilled?
  • What were the things I loved doing most as a child?
  • What are the times in my life I’ve felt the greatest joy?
  • Where do I find most inspiration?
  • What would I spend my time doing if I had complete financial abundance to do anything?
  • What could I do for five years straight without getting paid?
  • If you had six months to spend any way you’d like, what would you do?
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What are my unique gifts?

  • What is it that I, and only I, can give to the world?
  • Is there something that I do that seems effortless to me?
  • What unique abilities do I have that separate me from others?
  • Where do my core strengths lie?
  • What do people typically ask me for help in?
  • What are my natural talents and gifts?
  • What is it that  I, and only I, can do?
  • Is there something about me that I am frequently complimented on?
  • Are there latent talents or skills that I no longer access or use, but I remember having when I was much younger? How might those talents or skills serve me now or in the future?
  • What do you offer and do that is significantly different from what the best in your field do?
     
  • What was I noticed for back when I was a teen and young adult?
     
  • What skills, talents, abilities make me stand out?
  • What life experiences have shaped me in special ways?
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How can I share my passion and talent with the world?

  • How can I use my greatest gifts in greatest service to the world?
  • How can I share my gifts and love and enthusiasm with the world more today?
  • How can I inspire others to reach their potential and to love life?
  • What do I love? What can I be great at?  What does the world need?
  • How do I want to make a difference in the world?
  • How could I contribute to this world?
  • How could I impact and help my inner circle, my community or even people on this planet?
  • If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
  • What problem do I seek to solve? Why do I believe this problem needs to be addressed? Does this problem matter to other people?
  • Whom do I love to serve and support, and why?
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How can I start living my life purpose?

  • What’s getting in the way of me realizing a life of greater purpose and destiny?
  • What excuses do I give for not living a life of greater creativity and contribution?
  • How can I align my life (goals, choices and actions) with my life purpose?
  • How can I organise all of my activities around my life purpose?
  • What skills do I need to further develop to live my life purpose?
  • How can I start living my purpose a little more fully every day?
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More questions

  • What would you do if money was no object? Alan Watts
  • What can I do with my time that is important? Mark Manson
  • What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail? Robert H. Schuller
  • If you knew you were going to die one year from today, what would you do and how would you want to be remembered? Mark Manson
  • If I never had to work again and everybody adored me as I am, what would I spend my days doing to feel most fulfilled and most alive? Nick Seneca Jankel
    If I have been put on this planet by aliens to use all my insights, experiences, and gifts to bring more love to the world, what would I do each day? Nick Seneca Jankel
  • When I’m 90 years old looking back, what do I want to have given, contributed, stood for and achieved?