Find Your Life's Path

“What should I do with my life?”

It is the question gets asked more than any other. Most people wait for the answer to show up. It never does.

Here is the truth. A calling is not found. It is uncovered, one honest answer at a time.

You cannot think your way to your life’s work. You can answer your way toward it.

So answer these. On paper. In your own hand. The ones that make you flinch are the ones doing the work.

The Eight Questions

Answer all eight. Your life is hiding in the answers.

1. What is play for you, but work for everyone else?
2. Who do you admire? What do they actually do all day?
3. If you never had to make money again, what would you do?
4. What would you still want to build, even if it took twenty-five years?
5. What problem breaks your heart, the one you have to be the one to fix?
6. If you were born again, what would you do differently?
7. What do you really want to do, but are too embarrassed to say out loud?
8. Think of when you felt most alive. What were you doing?

The Method

Take a few minutes. Answer all eight. Then read your answers back.

Somewhere in there is what fires you up, and why you are here.

Six More That Cut

Eight is the start. Here are six more, sharper.

1. If no one ever knew what you did for a living, would you still want it?
2. What are you chasing only because it impresses other people?
3. If it is not a hell yeah, it is a no. What on your plate is secretly a no?
4. What are you willing to be bad at for two years to get great at?
5. Can you write, sell, and lead? If not, pick one and start. Those three open every door.
6. Who is helped by your work? Can you picture their face?

The Final Filter

One question decides what you do with everything you just wrote.

Of all of it, what would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Then go do that thing.

The Close

You will not find the answer inside this list. You will find your real questions. And your real questions are what start moving you.

A plan keeps you sitting still. A question puts you on the road.

So take the answer that scared you most. Make it one move this week.

Then take the next.