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Your Ikigai Journey
Free Ikigai Worksheet
Use this guided worksheet to explore your ikigai. You can complete it digitally or print it out and write by hand.
❤️ Circle 1: What You Love
What activities make you lose track of time? What would you do even if nobody was watching?
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⭐ Circle 2: What You're Good At
What skills come naturally to you? What do people praise you for or come to you for help with?
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🌍 Circle 3: What the World Needs
What problems frustrate you? What suffering do you want to help alleviate?
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💰 Circle 4: What You Can Be Paid For
What value can you offer that others would pay for? Think broadly - jobs, freelancing, products, services.
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🎯 Your Ikigai
Look at all four circles. What patterns do you see? Where do they overlap? Write your ikigai in one sentence:
How to Get Better Answers From This Worksheet
The best worksheet answers are specific and ordinary. Instead of writing “help people,” write the type of person you want to help, the problem they face, and the moment when your help would matter.
If the Paid For circle feels uncomfortable, treat it as sustainability rather than greed. Ask: what would let this source of meaning survive in real life? That might be a job, a service, a product, a grant, a community role, or a small side project.
After you fill the worksheet, look for repeating nouns and verbs. If “teaching,” “calm,” and “young people” appear in several circles, that pattern is more useful than trying to force a perfect sentence immediately.
Use the worksheet with these guides
These core guides work together: start with the concept, use the diagram or worksheet, then take the personalised test when you want a clear result.