‘This Japanese concept means have something worth living for, and ikigai is intimately related to the meaning element of flourishing … .’*

There it is again.  The thing I love.  My ikigai is to help others find their ikigai.

Seven Covey spoke about “finding our voices and helping others to find theirs” as the most important habit for life.**  Each of us has ikigai and is able to help others find theirs.

“It’s important to think about that time and place and activity where you shine, where you feel most alive.  I get all kinds of different answers – when I’m solving a problem, when I’m creating, when I’m connecting with someone, when I’m travelling.”^

For me, I love to read and write and doodle and meet people and hear their stories, and when people speak of not knowing what to do with their life, I want to help them find it, to help them listen to what their life is saying to them.

Whatever you hear and love, do it:

‘Obsessively specialise.  No niche is too small if it’s yours.^^

(*From Martin Seligman’s Flourish.)
(*From Steven Covey’s The 8th Habit.)
(^Quoted in Warren Berger’s A More Beautiful Question.)
(From Seth Godin’s Whatcha Gonna Do With That Duck?)