1. If you want good answers, ask yourself good questions.
1.1. 7 Strange Questions That Help You Find Your Life Purpose
1.2. 15 Questions
1.2.1. 1. What makes you smile? (Activities, people, events, hobbies, projects, etc.)
1.2.2. 2. What are your favorite things to do in the past? What about now?
1.2.3. 3. What activities make you lose track of time?
1.2.4. 4. What makes you feel great about yourself?
1.2.5. 5. Who inspires you most? (Anyone you know or do not know. Family, friends, authors, artists, leaders, etc.) Which qualities inspire you, in each person?
1.2.6. 6. What are you naturally good at? (Skills, abilities, gifts etc.)
1.2.7. 7. What do people typically ask you for help in?
1.2.8. 8. If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
1.2.9. 9. What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?
1.2.10. 10. You are now 90 years old, sitting on a rocking chair outside your porch; you can feel the spring breeze gently brushing against your face. You are blissful and happy, and are pleased with the wonderful life you’ve been blessed with. Looking back at your life and all that you’ve achieved and acquired, all the relationships you’ve developed; what matters to you most? List them out.
1.2.11. 11. What are your deepest values?
1.2.12. 12. What were some challenges, difficulties and hardships you’ve overcome or are in the process of overcoming? How did you do it?
1.2.13. 13. What causes do you strongly believe in? Connect with?
1.2.14. 14. If you could get a message across to a large group of people. Who would those people be? What would your message be?
1.2.15. 15. Given your talents, passions and values. How could you use these resources to serve, to help, to contribute? ( to people, beings, causes, organization, environment, planet, etc.)
2. What is your Golden Circle?
2.1. Why you do what you do
2.1.1. What is your purpose?
2.1.2. You're not looking to do business with people who need what you do. Instead you're looking to do business with people who believe what you believe!
2.1.3. Spend sufficient time to craft the perfect words for your mission/vision. This document will serve as your internal compass or guiding north star and will be communicated from top down and internally to externally
2.2. How you do it
2.2.1. What is your differentiation?
2.2.2. What is your value proposition?
2.3. What you do
2.3.1. What need do you solve?
2.3.2. What is your product or service?
3. Hedgehog Principle
4. Happy Documentary
4.1. Self-sacrifice in order to serve others has dramatic biological impact on happiness.
5. PAiLS by Chris Brady
5.1. Should you "buckle down", work hard, and build your financial foundation, so you can do what you love in the future?
5.2. Or...
5.3. Should you pursue your passion now, with the belief that income will flow as a result of doing what you love?
5.3.1. Chris Brady proposes that the solution is both in a hybrid model where stages of life stack on top of each other like a layer cake to help us climb to our goals
5.3.1.1. Stages of life that stack on top of each other like a layer cake that helps us climb
6. The happiness Hormones
6.1. Endorphines
6.2. Dopamine
6.3. Seratonin
6.4. Oxytocin
6.5. Anthropological definition of leadership
6.5.1. Sacrifice of self interests for the service of others