6 questions to discover your purpose. Research included.

1. Questions to
find your purpose

2. Question # 1
What sustainable
development goal
are you working towards?

3. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/?menu=1300
http://www.eco-business.com/opinion/why-it-pays-to-find-your-companys-global-purpose/

4. Question # 2
What is your story?

5. The purpose is often hidden in the stories that a person
or an organization can tell about her / his / its past.
Example
Nestlé was founded to save the life of a baby.
Adapted from:
https://hbr.org/2016/03/4-hard-questions-to-ask-about-your-companys-purpose

6. Question # 3
What are your values?

7. Your purpose is not what you think it should be.
Your purpose is who you can’t help being.
http://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact/ar/2

8. Further inspiration
http://www.frankcalberg.com/what-values-do-you-have

9. Question # 4
What do people, you love,
say when you tell them
about your purpose?

10. When Kathi shared her purpose statement with her
family and friends, this was their response:
“Yes! That’s you - all the time!”
https://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact/ar/1

11. One musician described his profound sense of
meaningfulness when his father attended a
performance of his for the first time and finally came
to appreciate and understand the musician’s work.
http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/what-makes-work-meaningful-or-meaningless/

12. Question # 5
What do people,
whom you serve every day,
really need?

13. When writing your purpose, focus on
benefits people get from what you do.
http://hbr.org/2011/12/first-lets-fire-all-the-managers/ar/3

14. Research shows that individuals tend to experience
their work as meaningful when it matters to
others more than just to themselves.
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

15. Question # 6
What are you sensing that
your purpose needs to be?

16. Evolutionary purpose means that people listen and
help the person or organization grow into
what she / he / it needs to be rather than try to
control or shape it based on their preferences.
http://www.reinventingorganizationswiki.com/index.php?title=Evolutionary_Purpose
http://agilitrix.com/2016/04/teal-organization-illustration/

17. Additional sources
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-figure-out-your-life-purpose-2014-12
http://creatingminds.org/tools/purposing.htm
http://www.fastcoexist.com/3060596/to-keep-their-best-millennials-companies-need-a-social-purpose
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2013/03/01/the-founder-of-21st-century-management-peter-drucker
https://hbr.org/2011/03/todays-innovative-idea-can-ris.html
http://hbr.org/2014/05/from-purpose-to-impact/ar/1
https://www.linkedin.com/hp/update/6120331523838275584
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/purpose-comes-from-within-josh-bersin
http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Discover-Your-Purpose-Robert-Holden
http://www.mktgsensei.com/AMAE/Strategy/HBR%20on%20Strategy.pdf p. 48.
http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2014/05/02/3-dimensions-of-purpose
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/01/how-to-discover-your-life-purpose-in-about-20-minutes
http://www.teachthought.com/learning/finding-purpose-teacher
http://www.wikihow.com/Find-Your-Life's-Purpose
http://youtu.be/R-66hqoNddk
http://youtu.be/0TkEA3awGnc
http://youtu.be/iAZwvTV3CyQ
http://youtu.be/C8RVV57Mj3g
https://youtu.be/iUdhJ_S_z3w