1

List 10 things you genuinely enjoy doing. Don’t filter for practicality or status. What activities make time disappear?

Which of these could you spend hours doing without getting paid?

2

Pick three items from yesterday’s list. For each one, describe why you love it. What specific aspect engages you?

What do these three share?

3

Think back to when you first loved one of these activities. Was there a specific moment or person that sparked it?

How has your relationship evolved?

4

List your genuine strengths — things you’re naturally or developmentally good at. Be honest, not humble.

Which strengths overlap with love?

5

Take one strength. Write about a time you used it well and felt proud. What made you feel competent in that moment?

How often do you use this strength?

6

Think about skills you’ve built through effort — things you weren’t born good at but became skilled through practice.

Which hard-won skills matter?

7

Map your passion and mastery. Where do what you love and what you’re good at overlap? What activities use both?

Does work use both?

8

What problems or needs do you see in the world that upset you? List 5–10. They can be global or local, big or small.

Which problem would you solve?

9

Pick one problem from yesterday. Write about why it matters to you personally. Who does it affect? What would change if it were solved?

Could your skills help?

10

Think about the people or communities you naturally want to help or support. Who do you find yourself drawn to?

What do they need from you?

11

Describe the impact you want to have. Not fame — genuine impact. Who benefits? How are they better off because of your work?

Is this impact possible now?

12

Think about people who have made a difference in your life or in the world. What did they do? Why does it matter?

What was their approach?

13

Write about what ‘making a difference’ looks like to you specifically. Scale? Timeline? Measurement? Be concrete.

What would it feel like?

14

Map your passion, mastery, and purpose. Where could what you love and what you’re good at meet a genuine need?

Where’s the gap?

15

What’s your honest relationship with money? What do you need financially to feel secure? What’s enough?

Are you earning that?

16

List 5 things you do that people would pay for. They don’t have to be your dream work — just things of value.

Have you been paid for these?

17

Research what people in your field or with your skills typically earn. What’s the market rate for what you can do?

Is that sustainable?

18

Think about people who are paid well for work you respect. What are they doing? Why does their work command that compensation?

What’s different about theirs?

19

Write about what would feel like ‘enough’ income to pursue your purpose without constant financial stress.

What changes with enough?

20

Identify gaps between your current income and your desired income. What would close that gap? More hours? Higher rates? Different work?

Which is realistic?

21

Map all four circles. Where your love, skill, purpose, and financial sustainability overlap — that’s your ikigai. What does it look like?

How much overlap do you inhabit?

22

Draw your ikigai diagram. Shade where circles overlap. Write the story of your exploration.

Where do you want to be?

23

Identify the biggest gap—passion, mastery, purpose, or prosperity? Teach someone your framework.

What would close it?

24

Choose one dimension to develop in six months. What’s the first move? Test your minimum version.

What’s your first step?

25

Imagine living your ikigai fully. Describe a typical week in detail. Name your identity shift.

What’s different?

26

Identify obstacles. Be honest. Which are moveable? Write your rules.

Which need different approaches?

27

What would you need to believe about yourself? Design month two.

Do you believe it?

28

Talk to someone admiring their ikigai. What did you learn? Write them a letter.

What applies to you?

29

Review your 30-day journey. Which dimensions are clear? What stayed with you?

What’s one insight?

30

Write your commitment to moving toward ikigai. Who do you become to inhabit that intersection?

Who do you need to become?