Three Questions Your Purpose Prism Should Answer This Quarter

Purpose is not a tattoo. It is a filter for yes and no when the calendar gets noisy. If your purpose language cannot reject an attractive opportunity, it is decoration.

Question 1: Who is better off if I do this well for three years?

If the answer is only "me" or "my brand," dig again. A usable purpose has a beneficiary: patients, operators, students, a specific customer class, a community.

Question 2: What will I stop doing even if it pays?

Purpose without subtraction is a mood board. List two income-adjacent activities you will decline this quarter because they dilute the craft or the mission.

Question 3: What evidence would show I am living this, not performing it?

Pick metrics or artifacts:

• hours in deep mission work
• shipped public work
• people helped in a defined way
• skills built that the mission requires

Review monthly. Adjust without drama.

How DISC distorts purpose

• D: purpose becomes conquest; check who benefits
• I: purpose becomes audience; check substance
• S: purpose becomes service to everyone; check self-erasure
• C: purpose becomes perfect framework; check contact with reality

A ninety-minute quarterly ritual

Write the three answers on one page. Share with one trusted human. Put one stop-doing on the calendar as a decline you will practice. Purpose that never inconveniences you is probably marketing copy.

Seekers: if you use SELF OS or a Purpose Prism style tool, run these three questions against this quarter's actual calendar. Alignment is not a feeling in a workshop. It is what survived contact with your week.