Another beautifully simple question from Keith Yamashita.*

When we’re more aware of our naturally recurring talents** (what we love to do and our lives want to do), these are great focusing questions:

‘What does the world need that we are uniquely able to provide?’^

This seeks our deeper answer.  Not the one someone else has told us.  Not the ones organisations have so often told us.  Our purpose is found where our deepest joy meets the world’s deepest need.

Instead of our response being, “Someone should do something about this!”, we wonder what we can do.  These questions open up the possibility of amazing contributions.

Coming up with a different but simple question to the ones we normally ask opens the more beautiful possibility.

‘Bold innovation, limitless generosity, and the opportunity to save a life.’^^

(*Quoted in Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question.)
(**By “naturally recurring,” I mean talents and abilities we’ve developed through our curiosity and intention, though not necessarily aware of.)
(^From Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question.)
(^^The wonderful subtitle to the book End Malaria.)