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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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'?
- 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?
- 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?
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