There are as many important questions as there are people.

‘Each person’s life – each life form, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.  And when your form dissolves, a world comes to an end – one of countless worlds.’*

These words from Eckhart Tolle remind me of my friend Alex McManus‘s observation, about how we each have a unique perspective on life, a way of seeing no-one else has which is lost when we die.

We must dig deep to find what this might be if we believed the lie that we have no singular contribution to make.

Paypal founder Peter Thiel offers this helpful question: “What is something I believe that nearly no-one agrees with me on?”**

Many are successful who pursue something which matters very much to them.  Start-up business coach David Kashen offers what he feels is a better question: “Will this make people’s lives meaningfully better?”.^^

This is about more than what we do: it’s who we are, the contribution we can and must make, and our place in our world’s history.

If you think you’re still searching for what this might be for you, why not do something different, or ask a different question:

‘If you scratch the same way all the time, you’ll end up in the same place with the same old ideas.’^

When I open myself to what you are asking or bring, then I grow and what I must bring, develops.

(*From Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth.)
(**Quoted in Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question.)
(^^From Twyla Tharp’s The Creative Habit.)