5 Essential Questions for Solopreneurs to: Uncover Your Unique Talent Stack, Unlock Your Ikigai, and Ignite Your Life Purpose
Defining and promoting your talent stack provides a solopreneur with focus. It uncovers what products or services you should sell that a unique to you. Why? Talent stacking helps you find your ikigai. What’s that? Ikigai is a long-existing Japanese concept popularized in the 1960s by psychiatrist Mieko Kamiya. It represents your reason for being. Iki, in Japanese, means life. Gai describes value or worth. Your ikigai is your life purpose or your bliss. Developing and promoting your talent stack will help you find your bliss.
Here are five questions to audit your talent stack:
- What are you exceptional at (and why)? 🌟
- What do you know? 🤔
- What should you never do again (and why)? 🚫
- Where have you been? 🗺️
- Who do you care about? ❤️
When I go through this exercise myself, I avoid introducing company names, credentials, or titles to help validate my talent stack. Those may be part of your “where have you been,” but they’re not why you are valuable. Shoot me a DM if you want to workshop your talent stack. Happy to provide feedback.
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