生き甲斐 · iki-ga-i · a reason to get up in the morning
What you love
What you’re good at
What you can be paid for
What the world needs
Ikigai
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Introduction
Where does your joy live?
Ikigai sits at the intersection of four questions. This journal walks you through each one slowly and honestly — to help you arrive at your own answer.
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” — Nietzsche
✦In one sentence, how do you currently describe your purpose?
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✦When do you feel most alive? Describe a specific moment.
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✦What would you do every day even if you were never paid for it?
Circle one · what you love
What makes your heart full?
This is the passion layer — not what you think you should love, but what genuinely lights you up.
Activities I lose time doing
Topics I read about for fun
?If you had a completely free Saturday, what would you do?
?What were you obsessed with as a child? Does any of it still resonate?
Circle two · what you’re good at
What comes naturally to you?
This is your talent layer — skills and gifts that feel effortless to you but impressive to others.
1What do friends and colleagues come to you for help with?
2Skills I’ve been told I’m naturally good at
3Things that feel easy to me but seem hard to others
✦What have been your three biggest achievements? What skills made them possible?
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Circle three · what the world needs
Where can you make a difference?
This is the mission layer — how your existence adds something meaningful beyond yourself.
1What problems in the world genuinely bother you?
2Who or what do you feel a sense of responsibility towards?
3What kind of world do you want to help create?
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Circle four · what you can be paid for
What is your value to others?
This is the vocation layer — the bridge between your gifts and the real world.
1What do people currently pay me for?
2What could I get paid for that I’m not yet?
?If money was already solved, what kind of work would I still choose to do?
Convergence · your ikigai
Where the four circles meet.
Now bring it together. Look at your answers in the four sections and find the common thread running through them.
Passion · love + good at
Mission · love + world needs
Profession · good at + paid for
Vocation · world needs + paid for
✦Looking at those four intersections — what single thread connects all of them?
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My ikigai statement
From insight to life
Living your ikigai.
Ikigai isn’t found once and kept — it’s lived daily through small intentional acts.
1What is one thing I can start doing this week that aligns with my ikigai?
2What am I currently doing that I need to stop — because it pulls me away?
3What does a day lived in alignment with my ikigai look like?
Daily alignment tracker
Name 5 daily habits that connect you to your ikigai. Click each day to mark it done.
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Weekly reflection
How aligned was this week?
✦Moments this week I felt most like myself
✦Moments I felt disconnected from my purpose
→One shift I’ll make next week to live more in alignment
A letter to myself
Dear future me.
Write to the version of yourself living fully in your ikigai. What do you want to tell them?
With love,
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