1.1What brought you to this book? What are you hoping to find or figure out?

1.2When in your life have you felt most purposeful — even briefly? What were the circumstances?

1.3What would change in your day-to-day life if you had a clearer sense of purpose?

2.1How have you defined “purpose” up until now? Where did that definition come from?

2.2What assumptions about purpose have you been carrying that might be worth questioning?

2.3If purpose isn’t a single destination to arrive at, what might it look like for you as an ongoing practice?

3.1Where are you right now — in your work, relationships, sense of self? Be honest, not aspirational.

3.2What’s working? What areas of your life feel aligned, even partially?

3.3What’s not working — where is the gap between who you are and who you want to be most visible?

4.1What’s the story you most often tell yourself about why you haven’t found your purpose yet?

4.2Where did that story come from? Is it yours, or did someone else hand it to you?

4.3What would be possible if you let that story go — or at least held it more loosely?

5.1What parts of yourself have you been avoiding looking at? What might they reveal?

5.2What practices — even small ones — help you feel more present and self-aware?

5.3After completing Part 1: what surprised you? What came up that you didn’t expect?

6.1List 10 things you value. Now cut it to 5. What did you keep, and why?

6.2Where in your life are your actions most consistent with your values? Where is there the most tension?

6.3Which of your values did you choose freely — and which were handed to you by family, culture, or circumstance?

7.1What activities, people, or environments consistently give you energy? Be specific.

7.2What drains you — even things you’re good at or feel obligated to do?

7.3What does the energy map of your typical week look like? Where are the peaks and the drains?

8.1What problems or needs in the world genuinely concern you — the ones you notice even when you’re not looking?

8.2What have you done in your life — even small things — that felt like it mattered to someone beyond yourself?

8.3If you had no fear of failure and no financial constraints, what would you spend your time doing?

9.1What do people consistently ask for your help with? What do they say you’re unusually good at?

9.2Which of your strengths do you most undervalue or take for granted because they come easily to you?

9.3What’s a strength you haven’t fully used yet — that you sense has more to give?

10.1What’s one small action you could take this week that would be more aligned with what you’ve discovered so far?

10.2What tends to stop your momentum? What patterns do you notice in how you get in your own way?

10.3After completing Part 2: what’s becoming clearer? What still feels murky?

11.1What does your inner critic say most often when you think about living more purposefully?

11.2What is that critic trying to protect you from? What’s the fear underneath the criticism?

11.3How would you respond to a close friend who told you they had the same critic? What would you say to them?

12.1Who in your life supports your growth and makes you feel like the best version of yourself?

12.2Who or what relationships drain your sense of self or pull you away from who you want to be?

12.3Is there someone in your life you’ve been wanting to be more honest with? What would you say?

13.1When have you helped someone in a way that felt genuinely meaningful — not obligatory, but real? What made it feel that way?

13.2What’s the difference between helping from a place of abundance versus helping from a place of depletion? Which is more common for you?

13.3How could you serve more from your strengths — in a way that also sustains you?

14.1Where do you feel you truly belong? What makes those places or communities feel that way?

14.2How has your identity shifted over the past five years? What have you outgrown? What’s emerged?

14.3Which parts of your identity feel most authentically yours — chosen rather than inherited?

15.1What choices or seasons in your life do you judge yourself most harshly for?

15.2What did those experiences teach you that you couldn’t have learned any other way?

15.3After completing Part 3: what has shifted in how you see yourself in relation to others?

16.1Describe a time when you were so absorbed in something that you lost track of time. What were you doing?

16.2What conditions make flow most accessible for you — time of day, type of work, environment?

16.3How could you design more of your days to include the activities and conditions that bring you into flow?

17.1How has your sense of purpose shifted at different seasons of your life? What triggered those shifts?

17.2What are you in the middle of right now — a transition, a beginning, an ending? How does that shape what purpose means to you today?

17.3What does it mean to hold purpose lightly — to stay committed to your direction without clinging to a fixed destination?

18.1Based on everything in this workbook: what is one sentence that captures your sense of purpose right now — imperfect, evolving, and yours?

18.2What’s one thing you want to start, stop, or change in the next 30 days that would be more aligned with that purpose?

18.3Who is one person in your life you want to share this with — and what would you want them to know?

E.1What is the single most important thing this workbook brought to the surface for you?

E.2Write a short letter to your future self — one year from now. What do you want them to remember from doing this work?