PURPOSE PLANNER

WORKBOOK
MODULE 1: WHERE ARE YOU?

1) How do you think about work, vocation, and calling?

2) How did/does career, work, and meaning (vocation and

calling) play out in your family?
3) What are the big questions you feel yourself asking about
work, meaning, calling, vocation, identity, and career?

4) What does success look like for us in this work?

 MODULE 2: RULES
1) What are the “do’s” and “don’t” or “shoulds” and
“shouldn’t” that relate to work for you (both past and
present)?
Make a list of as many of these “rules” as possible.

2) If you have any specific names/people/ideologies that are

responsible for any of these, please list them as well.
3) When you think about the decisions you have made in
regard to career and work, who are the people that have most
informed your process (for good and ill)?

4) How have they shaped your choices?

 MODULE 3: YOUR STORY
Use the timeline given to create a map of your important life
events.

BIRTH TODAY

Place positive events above the line and challenging events below.

Think through all areas of life: personal, professional, relationship, emotional,

spiritual, and any other categories that fit for you.
 MODULE 4: MOMENTS

1) Brainstorm your proudest moments and accomplishments.

2) After you have 10 or so, choose five to write out.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR WRITING:

Write it like a story.

A little embellishment is OK.

Take the reader into the moment and experience.

Keep each story under 500 words (this is mostly to help you focus on what
really matters from the story for the sake of sharing and reading it to others).
Moment 1
Moment 2
Moment 3
Moment 4
Moment 5
 MODULE 5: THEMES

1) Review your work thus far and write down themes.

2) Create a draft of your diagram.

3) Take the diagram to your discernment partners.

 MODULE 6: FUTURE
It’s seven years from now. A friend of yours is in a public
place and strikes up a conversation with a stranger. The two
of them realize that they both know you. The stranger says to
your friend, “I’ve been so impacted by knowing __(insert your
name)___!” And goes on to tell your friend a story about how
s/he knew you and the effect you had on his/her life.

1) Write three versions of the story that she/he tells.

2) Take your stories to your discernment partners.

Story 1
Story 2
Story 3
 MODULE 7: MISSION
ASSIGNMENT:
Write your mission statement.

Exercise 1:
Brainstorm your words.
Exercise 2:
- Who do you serve?

- Why do you serve them?

- What is the change that you are working toward?

Exercise 3:
Distill it down to a sentence or a phrase.
 MODULE 8: WHAT’S NEXT?
ASSIGNMENT:

Determine your values.

1) What are your values? Brainstorm all that feel important.

2) Choose your top 5.

3) Write a short story or example of a time you have felt that
value in action, or what happens when that value is violated.
 Graph your options on the quadrant.
1) Add your top values to the quadrants.
2) Graph your past jobs & opportunities.

ALIGNED WITH VALUES

LACKING MEANING MEANINGFUL

OPPOSITION TO VALUES
 1) Add your top values to the quadrants.
2) Graph your present & future options in the quadrants.

ALIGNED WITH VALUES

LACKING MEANING MEANINGFUL

OPPOSITION TO VALUES
Decide on your next experiment.
1) Experiments to try: what are your next moves?

2) What are the challenges you face between where you are
and where you want to go?
3) Who are the people who can help you get there?

EXPERIMENTATION
Take a Step
Evaluate the Outcome
Repeat

GO DO YOUR WORK!

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