A Whackadoodle World Tidbit: How to find your ikigai (Part Three)
For those of you who want to follow my student's example and discover your ikigai, here are the prompts for the third major ikigai question: What can you be paid for?
If you have been following along with parts one and two, you know what to do with the list of prompt questions below. If you haven’t, you’ll have no idea how to use this list, so I suggest you take a look at parts one and two. In addition to finding your ikigai, you will learn a few fun words and find a skookum banana bread recipe. Here are the links:
Guidepost Fourteen: The Power of Indirect Effort (Aka Episode 57)
Three new Whackadoodle words, one family recipe, and a skookum exercise for finding your ikigai. You didn't even know that you had an ikigai, did you? (Part One of Four)
A Whackadoodle World Tidbit: How to find your ikigai (Part Two)
Okay, so to catch you up, my student dropped by the other day complaining that she often felt like she was getting nowhere, and doing things simply because she was expected to, not because she wanted to. So I suggested a series of exercises to help her find her ikigai...
And Now:
If you have read the previous articles and have been following my student’s example, your third set of prompt questions lies below. They should help you uncover your answers to the third major ikigai question: What can you get paid for?
What can you get paid for?
What skills do you have that employers look for?
What have you been paid for before?
What would you be doing if you were not in your current job?
What do people need?
Do you think they would be happy to pay for it?
Can doing this give you the income you want/need right now?
Can you make a good living doing this work in the long term?
Are people willing to part with their resources to pay for what you have to offer?
What does the competition look like - can you spot a niche?
Which jobs, positions, or tasks spark your interest?
Are you already making a good living in your line of work?
I will be posting the fourth set of prompts tomorrow. Until then, have fun creating your list.