1.1How would you describe yourself in your own words?

1.2What would you want someone getting to know you to understand about you?

1.3What matters most to you right now?

1.4Are there values or principles that are especially important to the way you live or make decisions?

1.5Is there something about you that people often misunderstand?

2.1How do you prefer to communicate?

2.2How do you prefer information to be shared with you?

2.3When something is difficult or unfamiliar, what usually helps it click for you?

2.4Are there ways of communicating that make it harder for you to understand, respond, or feel comfortable participating?

3.1When you have an important decision to make, what usually works best for you?

3.2Do you prefer having several possibilities to consider, or a smaller number of well-developed choices?

3.3When something is new to you, what helps you become comfortable enough to make a decision?

4.1What parts of your life receive most of your attention right now?

4.2What would you like to have more time or attention for?

4.3As you think about making changes or pursuing new possibilities, what do you most want to protect or preserve?

4.4Are there parts of your life that you would rather keep separate from these discussions?

5.1Before we go further, what is most important for us to understand about you?

5.2Is there something you wish we had asked that would help us understand you better?

6.1How would you describe your household and everyday home life?

6.2Do you have responsibilities for other people that significantly affect your time or availability?

6.3Are there people who regularly depend on you?

6.4Is there anything about your household that should be kept in mind when considering schedules, opportunities, learning, work, or other activities?

7.1How would you describe your current housing situation?

7.2Does your current housing meet your everyday needs?

7.3Is your housing situation keeping you from doing something you would otherwise like to do?

If yes, how?

8.1What forms of transportation can you reliably use?

8.2Does transportation ever make it difficult for you to work, attend school, keep appointments, participate in projects, or do other things that matter to you?

8.3Is there a transportation resource or ability that would make life easier or open additional possibilities for you?

9.1What does a typical week look like for you?

9.2When do you usually have the most flexibility?

9.3What responsibilities would anything new need to work around?

9.4How much room do you feel you currently have for something new?

10.1How would you describe your financial situation right now?

10.2Is your current income generally:

10.3Is there a financial concern that is making something else in your life more difficult?

If so, what?

10.4Are you interested in increasing income, reducing expenses, building savings or reserves, acquiring assets, creating a business or income source, or accomplishing another financial goal?

11.1Is paperwork or an unfinished administrative matter keeping you from moving forward with something important?

This might include identification, records, licensing, applications, registrations, accounts, documentation, or another process.

11.2If yes, what is it keeping you from doing?

11.3What do you believe needs to happen to resolve it?

12.1Is there anything about the way you function, learn, communicate, move, process information, or experience your surroundings that would be helpful for us to consider?

12.2Is there an adjustment or type of support that would make learning, working, communicating, or participating easier for you?

If yes, what would help?

You do not need to provide a diagnosis to tell us what works better for you.

13.1What part of your current life helps you the most?

13.2What part makes things the most difficult?

13.3What relatively small change could make your everyday life meaningfully easier?

13.4Is there something important about your life right now that we have not asked about?

14.1What formal education have you completed or spent significant time pursuing?

14.2What did you study?

14.3What did you learn that is still useful to you today?

14.4Is there something you studied but never really had the opportunity to use?

15.1What licenses, certifications, apprenticeships, credentials, or specialized training have you completed?

15.2Which are still current?

15.3Are there any that have expired or become inactive?

15.4Are there any you would like to renew, reactivate, or obtain?

16.1What have you taught yourself?

16.2How did you learn it?

16.3How would you describe what you can currently do in that area?

17.1What can you do with your hands or through practical experience?

Think broadly. This might include:

17.2Which of these can you do comfortably on your own?

17.3Which could you teach someone else?

18.1What professional, business, occupational, administrative, or technical knowledge have you developed?

18.2How did you learn it?

18.3How recently have you used it?

18.4Is there something you know how to do well that you rarely get to use?

19.1What kinds of things do people regularly ask you for help with?

19.2What do family, friends, coworkers, or others rely on you to know or figure out?

19.3Is there something you know particularly well that you have never really considered a skill?

20.1What would you like to learn?

20.2Why does it interest you?

20.3What would you like to be able to do once you learn it?

20.4How do you learn best?

21.1What do you know exceptionally well?

21.2What ability or knowledge do you think you are not using nearly enough?

21.3What would you most enjoy teaching someone?

21.4What would you most like someone to teach you?

21.5Is there something you know or can do that we have not uncovered yet?

22.1What useful property, equipment, tools, technology, workspace, vehicles, land, inventory, or other physical resources do you own, control, or have reliable access to?

For anything significant, you may describe your access as:

23.1What tools, machinery, or specialized equipment can you access?

23.2Can you operate them yourself?

23.3Is there anything useful that you cannot currently use because it needs a repair, part, supply, software, maintenance, or something else?

24.1Do you have access to space where you could work, create, build, repair, teach, store things, or carry out an activity?

24.2How often is that space available?

24.3Is it being fully used?

24.4Could you use it for something you would like to do but are not doing now?

25.1What devices and technology can you reliably use?

25.2How reliable is your internet access?

25.3Do you have websites, domain names, servers, applications, databases, communication systems, online stores, publishing channels, or other digital resources?

25.4Have you created digital materials that still have value or could be useful again?

26.1Have you created writings, designs, inventions, recipes, processes, software, music, artwork, research, educational material, brands, prototypes, or anything else of your own?

26.2What became of those creations?

26.3Is there anything unfinished that you would like to return to someday?

27.1Do you have things that were originally bought, built, or created for a business or other productive activity?

27.2Are any connected to something you stopped doing?

27.3Could any of them still be useful?

27.4Do you already have most of what you would need to make, provide, or offer something if only one or two pieces were added?

If yes, what is missing?

28.1What kinds of knowledge, experience, or help are available within the people you know?

28.2Do you have useful relationships with professionals, suppliers, vendors, contractors, customers, community members, or people within a particular field?

28.3Are there useful things you could reasonably gain access to through someone you know, even though you do not personally own them?

29.1What useful things do you have that are sitting unused or are not being used nearly as much as they could be?

29.2Why aren't they being used?

29.3Would you rather:

30.1What resources would make the greatest difference in helping you accomplish something important?

30.2What would each one allow you to do?

30.3What is the smallest thing you could gain access to that would meaningfully help you move forward?

31.1Is there anything you specifically do not want considered for a project, business, collaboration, or other activity?

31.2What would need to be true before you would consider making a particular resource available?

32.1What is one of the most useful things you have access to in everyday life?

32.2What resource do you think has the greatest untapped potential?

32.3What do you have that is most underused?

32.4What are you missing that limits you the most?

32.5Did these questions make you recognize something you already have as a resource when you had never thought of it that way before?

33.1What kinds of work have you done?

33.2What did you actually do in those roles?

33.3Which experiences taught you the most?

33.4What work did you enjoy most?

33.5What did you become particularly good at?

33.6What can you do well but would rather not do again?

34.1What have other people trusted you to manage, handle, or protect?

34.2Have you ever been responsible for keeping a household, project, department, business, operation, or other activity running?

34.3Have you formally led other people?

34.4Have people naturally looked to you for direction even when you did not have a leadership title?

34.5Do you enjoy leading?

35.1Have you ever started, tried to start, owned, operated, or played a significant part in a business or income-producing activity?

If yes:

35.2What did it offer?

35.3What did you personally do?

35.4How far did it get?

35.5What worked?

35.6What didn't work?

35.7What did you learn?

35.8Would you consider trying it again?

36.1What meaningful projects have you completed?

36.2What part did you personally play?

36.3What did you learn from doing it?

36.4Which completed project gives you the greatest sense of satisfaction?

37.1What have you started but never finished?

37.2What caused it to stop?

37.3Does it still matter to you?

37.4What would have to change for you to consider starting again?

38.1What have you tried that did not work the way you expected?

38.2What did it teach you?

38.3Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently?

38.4What have you done that worked especially well?

38.5Why do you think it worked?

38.6Do you think you could do it again?

39.1What meaningful things have you done for family, friends, neighbors, organizations, or your community without being paid?

39.2What abilities did that require?

39.3What responsibilities did you take on?

39.4Would you enjoy doing something similar again?

40.1What have you created, repaired, grown, written, organized, delivered, developed, improved, or helped make possible?

40.2What have you done or produced repeatedly?

40.3What have people specifically asked you to do because they valued the result?

40.4Have you ever taken something that was broken, inefficient, confusing, expensive, difficult, or disorganized and made it work better?

What did you do?

41.1What hard-earned knowledge are you not really using right now?

41.2What have you learned that you think should be passed on rather than lost?

41.3What do you wish someone had taught you earlier?

41.4What would you tell someone who was about to do something you have already been through?

42.1What experience has contributed most to who you are?

42.2What past experience is most useful to you today?

42.3What experience or ability are you using the least?

42.4What would you gladly do again?

42.5What would you rather never repeat?

42.6What might you try again if the circumstances were different?

43.1What parts of yourself would you like to strengthen or develop?

43.2Why would that matter to you?

43.3What feels most important right now?

44.1What do you already know that you would like to understand more deeply?

44.2What skills would you like to become better at?

44.3What would you like to learn that you cannot do yet?

44.4What would you eventually like to do with those abilities?

44.5Would a license, certification, degree, or other formal recognition actually help you accomplish what you want?

45.1Is there something you believe you could do but have hesitated to try?

45.2What has stopped you?

45.3Is there an area where you think your ability is greater than your confidence?

45.4Is there something you feel ready to do but simply have never had the opportunity to try?

46.1Are there ways you would like to become a stronger communicator?

46.2Would you like to become more capable or comfortable leading others?

46.3If so, in what way?

46.4Would learning leadership skills interest you even if you have no desire for a formal leadership position?

47.1What do you enjoy creating?

47.2What seems to come naturally to you?

47.3What have people repeatedly told you that you should do more with?

47.4Is there a talent or interest that you have neglected but would like to return to?

47.5Is there something you love doing that you specifically want to keep as enjoyment rather than turn into work?

48.1What do you currently rely on other people to do that you would rather understand or be able to handle yourself?

48.2How capable would you like to become?

49.1How would you most enjoy developing a new ability?

49.2What would you need in order to learn or develop in that way?

50.1What is making it difficult for you to learn, develop, or move forward right now?

50.2Which difficulty matters most?

50.3Is there something relatively small that, if solved, would allow you to begin?

50.4Does one thing need to happen before something else can move forward?

51.1What one area would you most like to develop over the next year?

51.2What small improvement would immediately increase what you are able to do?

51.3What would you willingly spend years becoming exceptionally good at?

51.4What would you learn or develop simply because it would make your life richer?

51.5What ability would give you greater independence?

52.1What needs your attention right now?

52.2How urgent is it?

52.3What is likely to happen if nothing changes?

52.4What would meaningful improvement look like to you?

52.5What is the smallest change that would still make a useful difference?

53.1What are you trying to accomplish?

For each important goal:

53.2Why does it matter to you?

53.3Is this something you want, or something someone else expects of you?

53.4How important is it right now?

53.5When would you ideally like to accomplish it?

53.6How far have you already gotten?

54.1Is there something that has to happen before one of your major goals can move forward?

54.2Could solving one issue help several other things fall into place?

54.3Are any of your goals competing for the same time, money, attention, or resources?

54.4If you could move only one forward first, which would you choose?

55.1If things went exceptionally well, what would you like your life to become?

55.2What have you wanted for years but never seriously pursued?

55.3What has kept you from pursuing it?

55.4Does it still matter to you?

55.5Imagine for a moment that money, access, and fear of failure were not standing in your way. What would you seriously consider doing?

56.1What would you like life to look like for your household or family?

56.2What opportunities would you like the people you care about to have?

56.3What difficulties would you especially like the next generation to avoid?

56.4Is there knowledge, tradition, property, a business, or something else you would like to preserve and pass forward?

56.5Is there something you would like your family to build or accomplish together?

57.1What would being financially stronger look like to you?

57.2Would you like to change the way you earn income?

57.3Would you like to develop additional sources of income?

57.4Are there useful or income-producing assets you would eventually like to acquire?

57.5If you could choose, what kind of work would you most like to do?

57.6Which possibilities interest you right now?

58.1Would you like to create, own, operate, expand, restart, or become involved in a business or other productive venture?

58.2What would you want it to provide or make possible?

58.3Why does the idea interest you?

58.4How far along is it?

58.5What is keeping you from taking the next step?

59.1Where and how would you ideally like to live?

59.2Would you like to own, acquire, improve, or develop property or land?

59.3What would you want to use it for?

59.4Would you rather acquire something that already exists, improve something, or build something of your own?

60.1What ideas have been sitting in the back of your mind?

60.2Which ones keep coming back?

60.3What would you need in order to try one of them?

60.4What would you like to build, establish, create, restore, or bring into existence?

60.5Who might benefit from it?

60.6What parts of it already exist?

60.7What is still missing?

60.8Could you try a smaller version first?

61.1What situations do you repeatedly notice that you believe could be better?

61.2Which of them matter enough to you that you would like to help change or improve them?

61.3Why does that particular issue matter to you?

61.4Do you already have ideas about what could be done differently?

62.1What do you want to experience during your lifetime?

62.2What have you repeatedly put off?

62.3What would you like to create or preserve so that its value continues even when you are no longer actively involved?

62.4What knowledge would you like to pass forward?

62.5What would you especially regret leaving undone?

63.1What kinds of futures, roles, work, lifestyles, or responsibilities do you know you do not want?

63.2What are you unwilling to sacrifice just to achieve something else?

63.3What values, principles, or conditions would any future opportunity need to respect?

64.1What matters most over the next 90 days?

64.2What would you most like to be different one year from now?

64.3What would meaningful progress look like three years from now?

64.4What general direction would you like your life to be moving in?

64.5If you could build one thing, what would it be?

64.6If you could remove one obstacle, what would it be?

64.7What part of your life do you most want to preserve as you move forward?

65.1Would you be interested in using some of your knowledge, abilities, time, creativity, experience, or resources to help with something involving other people?

65.2What would make that feel meaningful or worthwhile to you?

65.3What kinds of activities would interest you?

Recognizing something you could contribute does not mean you are agreeing to contribute it.

66.1What do you know that could help someone else?

66.2What have you learned the hard way that could help someone avoid the same mistakes?

66.3What could you teach?

66.4Would you actually enjoy teaching it?

66.5Would you enjoy mentoring someone?

66.6If so, what would make that a good experience for you?

67.1What practical work could you imagine helping with?

67.2What professional or technical abilities could you potentially offer?

67.3Are you particularly good at organizing, coordinating, planning, communicating, keeping records, or helping things run smoothly?

67.4Would you rather work behind the scenes, directly with people, or are you comfortable with either?

68.1What creative abilities might you enjoy using with other people?

68.2Are there creative interests that you specifically want to keep for yourself?

68.3What kinds of challenges or puzzles do you enjoy figuring out?

68.4Would you enjoy brainstorming, designing, improving something, researching, experimenting, or helping develop an idea?

69.1Would you enjoy working on a project with a clear purpose or goal?

69.2What kind of role would feel most natural to you?

69.3Would you rather lead, co-lead, contribute, or decide based on the project?

69.4Would you consider taking responsibility for leading something if the right opportunity arose?

Being interested in leadership does not commit you to accepting a position or responsibility.

70.1Is there anything you have that you might consider making available under the right circumstances?

70.2How might you be comfortable making it available?

70.3What conditions would matter to you?

70.4Would you consider giving some of your time to something that interested you?

70.5How much time could you reasonably give without interfering with your own needs and priorities?

Nothing you identify here becomes automatically available to anyone.

71.1If you were making a substantial contribution, what kinds of arrangements might you consider?

71.2What might you gladly do without being paid?

71.3What would you only want to do if there were compensation or a clear agreement?

72.1What abilities, resources, or parts of your life should not be considered when looking at ways you might contribute?

72.2How often, if at all, would you want to hear about opportunities that might fit your interests or abilities?

72.3What do you want protected from becoming something people expect from you?

72.4Is there something you would rather initiate or offer on your own?

73.1What could you offer that you think might be especially valuable to someone else?

73.2What would you most enjoy contributing?

73.3What useful ability of yours is rarely being used?

73.4What would you enjoy building or accomplishing with other people?

73.5What do you specifically want protected from expectations that you should contribute it?

77.1What strengths seem most important in your life right now?

77.2What knowledge or abilities appear especially useful?

77.3What resources are already helping you move forward?

77.4Are there relationships, experiences, habits, circumstances, or qualities that give you an advantage you may not always recognize?

77.5What do you already have going for you?

78.1Which obstacles appear to be affecting you most?

78.2Does one obstacle appear to be creating several other difficulties?

78.3Is there something relatively small that could unlock something much larger?

78.4Is there an obstacle that looks important at first but may not actually need to be solved before you can move forward?

79.1What knowledge appears to be underused?

79.2What ability appears to be underused?

79.3What experience appears to have continuing value?

79.4What physical, digital, creative, financial, relational, or other resource appears underused?

79.5Is there something you already have that could serve a completely different purpose than the one it was originally intended for?

79.6Is there something valuable that you have simply stopped noticing because it has been around for so long?

80.1What appears most important to you?

80.2What seems urgent but not necessarily important?

80.3What seems important but does not need immediate attention?

80.4What do you seem naturally drawn toward?

80.5What appears to give you energy?

80.6What appears to drain you even though you may be capable of doing it?

80.7What do you want protected while pursuing anything new?

81.1Does this generally sound like you?

81.2What did we understand correctly?

81.3What did we misunderstand?

81.4What is technically accurate but gives the wrong impression?

81.5What did we miss?

81.6Did we connect anything that you do not believe belongs together?

81.7Is there a connection that seems obvious to you that we failed to notice?

81.8Did we place too much importance on something?

81.9Did we overlook something important?

82.1Is there anything in this assessment that you want kept personal?

82.2Is there knowledge or an ability that you do not want considered when looking at future possibilities?

82.3Is there a resource that should not be treated as available?

82.4Is there an interest that you want to remain recreational or personal?

82.5Is there an experience you do not want to revisit?

82.6Is there a direction you do not want explored?

82.7Is there anything you would rather leave alone for now?

82.8Have any of your boundaries changed since you began the questionnaire?

83.1Do you feel that we understand you well enough to continue?

83.2Is there anything you want to add before possibilities are considered?

83.3Is there anything you want corrected first?

83.4Would you prefer to stop here for now?

86.1Does this interest you?

86.2What interests you about it?

86.3What concerns you about it?

86.4Does it fit what you actually want?

86.5Does it respect your boundaries?

86.6Would you like to understand it better before deciding anything?

87.1After seeing everything together, has a new idea occurred to you?

87.2Has something you previously dismissed started to look possible?

87.3Have you thought of a direction we did not identify?

87.4Did one possibility lead you to think of another?

87.5Is there something you would like explored simply because you are curious about it?

88.1Could this possibility be tested on a small scale?

88.2What is the smallest useful version of it?

88.3What could you learn from trying that version?

88.4What would need to happen before you would feel comfortable testing it?

88.5What would tell you whether to continue, change direction, or stop?

89.1Which possibilities belong in Now?

89.2Which belong in Next?

89.3Which require development?

89.4Which do you simply want to explore?

89.5Which should wait?

89.6Which are not for you?

90.1Of everything you have considered, what matters most right now?

90.2If only one thing moved forward, what would you choose?

90.3Could one step make several other things easier?

90.4What would create the greatest positive difference in your everyday life?

90.5What possibility excites you most?

90.6What possibility seems most practical?

90.7Are those the same possibility or different ones?

91.1Does greater personal independence or organization interest you?

91.2What would you want greater independence to make possible?

91.3What part of your affairs would you most want to strengthen first?

91.4Would you prefer to begin simply and develop further only if your actual needs call for it?

91.5What would you need to understand before deciding whether to explore this further?

92.1Would opportunities to work or build with others interest you?

92.2What kinds of activities might interest you?

92.3What would you hope to gain, accomplish, learn, experience, or contribute?

92.4Would you prefer something ongoing, temporary, project-specific, or would it depend?

92.5Would you rather observe or experience something before taking on a deeper role?

93.1Could you see yourself focusing on your own development without participating in organized activities with others?

93.2Could you see yourself working or participating with others without wanting additional development around your personal affairs?

93.3Could both interest you independently?

93.4Would you prefer neither right now?

93.5Would you rather keep exploring before deciding?

94.1What, if anything, would you like to move forward with?

94.2What would you like to learn more about?

94.3What would you like to test on a small scale?

94.4What would you rather leave for later?

94.5What do you not want pursued?

94.6Is there something you want to initiate yourself?

94.7Would you prefer no further action right now?

95.1What would make sense as the next step?

95.2What would that next step help you learn, resolve, or accomplish?

95.3Is anything needed before that step can happen?

95.4Would you like help moving into that next step?

96.1Have any of your answers changed since you began?

96.2Have your priorities changed?

96.3Have any of your boundaries changed?

96.4Did you discover something about yourself that you had not considered before?

96.5Did you recognize an ability, resource, experience, connection, or possibility that you had been overlooking?

96.6Is something important still missing?

96.7Is there anything we still misunderstand?

96.8In your own words, where are you now, and where would you like to go?