10 Power Questions
Right after that 100 Questions exercise (you did it, right?), Gelb tells us that, in addition to being incredibly and insatiably curious, da Vinci was also committed to deep contemplation. If we want to be like Leo, we’ve gotta get our contemplation on!
To support that end, Gelb suggests we meditate on one or more of his “power questions.”
I took him up on the invitation—writing “How can I get paid to do what I love?” on a piece of paper and hanging it, via some dental floss, over my shower head as I took a nice, long, contemplative bath.
(In many ways, I can trace typing these words to that precise moment when I decided I wanted to be paid to study life, become a better human being and share what I’m learning!)
I’ve created my own list of power questions. Ponder/ journal on these if you feel so inspired:
1. How can you use your strengths in greatest service to yourself, your family, your community and the world?
2. How can you get paid to do what you love?
3. What 5 things are you most proud of ? What 5 things will you be most proud of?
4. If you had all the time and all the money in the world, what would you do?
5. What’s your ideal day look like? When do you get up? What do you do? With whom? For whom? Imagine it in vivid detail!
6. Who are your heroes?Why? How are you like them?
7. What would you do if you weren’t afraid?
8. If you were guaranteed to succeed, what’s the #1 thing you would do? What else?
9. What is it that you and only you can do for the world?
10. How can you live in more integrity with your ideals? What’s the #1 thing you could start doing that would have the most positive impact in your life? What’s the #1 thing you could *stop* doing that would have the most positive impact in your life?! Sweet. Now rock it.
