These questions make for enriching dinner table conversation, but they can be equally illuminating if you simply ask them of yourself. I stumbled onto the idea of asking big questions because I needed them myself. They drive our growth, and we can come back to them year after year.

1. What people have given you special understanding, support, and guidance?
2. Who are the special people on whom you can depend?
3. What is it that these people give you that is exceptional?
4.  How did you find them or how did they come to you?
5. What did they respond to in you?
6. What associations, organizations, or groups have been especially helpful to you in the past?