TEN KILLER QUESTIONS

WELCOME TO THE 10 KILLER QUESTIONS

These questions are a useful way to think about yourself and your future. They are a precursor to many other questions.

The answers to the questions shouldn’t be considered as being right or wrong.

Think of them as simply representative of your current state of thinking and appetite.

Answer them in as few or as many words as you like. It doesn’t matter.

Before you begin first have an understanding of all the questions instead of just answering them in the order below.

Hopefully, however, you set about them you will find some questions make you want to change the answers to previous ones and that’s perfectly OK.

At The Bottom - There’s a series of definitions of those terrifying words associated with strategies, visions and planning. They may be helpful before you start too.

1. WHAT IS YOUR PURPOSE?

Can you define what drives you and state it as your single minded purpose? It gets called many things — intention, ambition, goal — several others. It doesn’t matter what words you use — your answer to this question should describe your dream.

2. WHAT ARE YOUR CAPABILITIES?

What can you do? What are your core skills? What talents and special expertise defines you? The answers to this question should form the bedrock of who we are as people and as an individual.

3. WHAT MAKES YOU UNIQUE?

Is there something about what you do that makes you different and really describes your special sauce - the essence of you? The answer to this question should determine if and why the world need us.

4. WHAT IS YOUR VISION?

Can you complete the sentence ?— “I/We see a world where…” The answer to this question should explain why the world will be better with you and your contribution in it. It will be inspiring to you and it will fuel your passion. It should also be inspiring enough to make people want to want to work for you to help you achieve it. It should be inspiring enough for your audiences to want to engage in it.

5. WHAT ARE YOUR MEASURES OF SUCCESS?

How would you judge success? The answer to this question will define the kinds of metrics that are important to you and wish to achieve with your vision and purpose. Metrics shouldn’t be viewed as financial.

6. WHAT’S DRIVING YOU?

What is behind your passion and purpose, vision and intention? The answer to this question will explain what challenges you see and that need to be fixed - the thing that needs solving or that spark inside you that makes you feel you should be doing.

7. WHAT’S STOPPING YOU?

What’s getting in the way - if anything - of you doing all of the above? The answer to this question should suggest the blockers, the sleepless nights, the small things niggling you. If anything.

8. WHY ARE YOU ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS?

Just take a second to explain to yourself why you feel the need to be challenging yourself with these questions. The answer to this question will explain the current state and context of your world as it is today.

9. ARE YOU A LEADER?

What makes you think you have what it takes to achieve the result you have described? The answer to this question will explain the foundations of what it needs to deliver and survive the peaks and troughs of doing anything in this new age. This is different to the skills and capabilities and should dig into the more intangible qualities to survive the future.

10. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU WERE SUCCESSFUL WITH THE ABOVE?

Can you see anything beyond the purpose you have set? The answer to this question will challenge you to think if your purpose has a purpose beyond what you have defined.