A question that opens the door to your next chapter.
Last week, we began the journey with the most essential question of all: Who am I?
The reason is simple, as I shared last week: how can you know where to go if you don’t know who you are? That first step is a situation analysis of the self: peeling away labels, listening to your real voice, and reconnecting with your essence.
Today, we move to the next question of The Method: Where do I want to go?
Please note that purpose is never a destination, It’s just a direction. Αs I say in my book and as every good sailor says: Where you look, you go.
So before defining goals, timelines, or dreams, we need clarity. And clarity starts taking consideration also: Your PPT – Personal Point in Time. A simple but powerful check-in: Where am I standing today? What do I feel? What is energizing me? What is draining me? What is calling me forward?
Clarity begins here — at your present moment, without judgment, only truth.
Recently, In my TEDx talk, I shared a moment that showed exactly why clarity and alignment matter.
My team and I worked on a major project for months. Everything worked: the execution, the reactions, the results. It looked like success from the outside. But inside, I felt something unmistakable: “This doesn’t align with our purpose.”
And our purpose at Travelgems is crystal clear: to build a world full of authentic human smiles.
That project didn’t mirror that purpose. It didn’t create true connection. It didn’t support inner growth. It wasn’t serving humans as we want to do. It didn’t contribute to the community we are committed to building.
After it ended, we gathered and said the bravest sentence a team can say: “We don’t want to do this again.”Not because it failed — it didn’t. But because it didn’t reflect who we are or what we stand for.Purpose is alignment so next year we will miss the money but we will not miss out soul!
Its typical and logical that the end of the year is a mirror of our year’s path. Every December, we think about goals, resolutions, new beginnings. But the truth is simple: If you don’t pause to understand your present, the future cannot be designed consciously.
This is why I invite you to take five quiet minutes today and ask yourself:
( Hopefully the first question is already answered…otherwise we need to go back to then first newsletter and then to continue)
Where do I want to go — not in the world’s eyes, but in my own? What do I want to feel more of in the coming year? What do I want to leave behind? What do I want to protect?
When I feel safe?
When I feel happy? What do I want to amplify?
Because yes — the end of the year is the perfect moment to reflect. But the deeper truth? Every day can be a beginning with clarity. The calendar doesn’t change you. As we close this year together, let’s do it with honesty and direction. Where you want to go matters — because you matter. And in this community, we figure it out together.