Meeting with myself - 49 Questions To Improve Your Results

Pick up a notebook, set aside an hour, and spend time with yourself answering these questions.  Make it fun: treat yourself to a nice lunch or dinner at a restaurant you like, and write as you eat.  By the time the check arrives, you will have more than a few new ideas about how to change your life or business for the better.

Do I use my body optimally?

• What is the quality of my current diet?
• Do I get enough sleep?
• Am I managing my energy well each day?
• How well am I managing daily stress?
• Do I have good posture and poise?
• What can I do to improve my ability to observe the world around me?

Do I know what I want?

• What achievements would make me really excited?
• What 'states of being' do i want to experience each day?
• Are my priorities and values clearly defined? 
• Am I capable of making decisions quickly and confidently?
• Do I consistently focus my attention on what I want versus what I don't want?

What am I afraid of?

• Have I created an honest and complete list of the fears I am holding on to?
• Have I confronted each fear to imagine how I would handle it if it came to pass?
• Am I capable of recognizing and correcting self-limitation?
• Am I appropriately pushing my own limits?

Is my mind clear and focused?

• Do I systematically externalize (write or record) what I am thinking about?
• Am I making it easy to capture my thoughts quickly, while as I have them?
• What has my attention right now?
• Am I regularly asking myself appropriate guiding questions?
• Do I spend most of my time focusing on a single task, or am I constantly flipping between multiple tasks?
• Do I spend enough time actively reflecting on my goals, projects, and progress?

Am I confident, relaxed, and productive?

• Have I found a planning method that works for me?
• Am I 'just organized enough'?
• Do I have an up-to-date list of my projects and active tasks?
• Do I receive all of my commitments on a regular basis?
• Do I take regular, genuine breaks from my work?
• Am I consciously creating positive habits?
• Am I working to shed nonproductive habits?
• Am I comfortable with telling other people 'no'?

How do I perform best?

• What do I particularly enjoy?
• What am I particularly good at doing?
• What environment(s) do I find most conductive to doing good work?
• How do I tend to learn most effectively?
• How do I prefer to work with and communicate with others?
• What is currently holding me back?

 What do I really need to be happy and fulfilled?

• How cam I currently defining 'success'?
• Is there another way of defining 'success' that I may find more fulfilling?
• How often do I compare myself with my perception of other people?
• Am I currently living below my means?
• If I could only own one hundred things, what would they be?
• Am I capable of separating necessity and luxury?
• What do I feel grateful for in my life and work?

 

Keys to Success - B.C. Forbes

Your success depends on you.
Your happiness depends on you.
You have to steer your own course.
You have to shape your own fortune.
You have to educate yourself.
You have to do your own thinking.
You have to live with your own conscience.
Your mind is yours and can be used only by you.
You come into this world alone.
You go to the grave alone.
You are alone with your inner thoughts during the journey between.
You make your own decisions.
You must abide by the consequences of your acts.
You alone can assimilate things mental and things material.

You have to do your own assimilation all through life.
You may be taught by a teacher, but you have to imbibe the knowledge. He cannot transfuse it into your brain.
You alone can control your mind cells and your brain cells.
You may have spread before you the wisdom of the ages, but unless you assimilate it you derive no benefit from it; no one can force it into your cranium.
You alone can move your own legs.
You alone can move your own arms.
You alone can utilize your own hands.
You alone can control your own muscles.
You must stand on your feet, physically and metaphorically.
You must take your own steps.
Your parents cannot enter into your skin, take control of your mental and physical machinery, and make something of you.
You cannot fight your son’s battles; that he must do for himself.
You have to be captain of your own destiny.
You have to see through your own eyes.
You have to use your own ears.
You have to master your own faculties.
You have to solve your own problems.
You have to form your own ideals.
You have to create your own ideas.
You must choose your own speech.
You must govern your own tongue.
Your real life is your thoughts.
Your thoughts are your own making.
Your character is your own handiwork.
You alone can select the materials that go into it.
You alone can reject what is not fit to go into it.
You are the creator of your own personality.
You can be disgraced by no man’s hand but your own.
You can be elevated and sustained by no man but yourself.
You have to write your own record.
You have to build your own monument – or dig your own pit.
Which are you doing?