14.03.2024
Do you ever suffer hindsight bias?
After the fact, everything seems obvious?
The right decision was clear?
Do you ever confront others in hindsight?
Hindsight is great to try and learn.
Don't put too much importance on it though.
What information did you have at the time?
What situation were you in?
How experienced were you?
In hindsight, life is a walk in the park...
13.03.2024
How much do you trust influencers?
Are there any whose information you trust?
How rigorous is their practice?
What is their agenda?
Has their agenda changed over time?
Have they changed over time?
Freely shared information is tricky.
Nothing is truly for free.
And no one is without an agenda or goal.
Discern accordingly!
12.03.2024
Why is this happening?
Why to you?
Why not someone else?
Why can it not stop?
Things happen.
They happen to you and others.
Sometimes more and sometimes less.
Depending on your mood it might feel worse than it is.
Take a moment. Calm yourself. Solve the issue.
11.03.2024
Have you tried improving something lately?
How did it go?
Does the improvement deliver the results?
Are you expecting immediate results?
Or are the expected results delayed?
When do you know if the improvement really is one?
We can only plan actions that we think are improvements,
and then take the action and observe.
At some point, you will know if it works or not.
Do not hesitate to change direction if needed.
10.03.2024
Is someone you know behaving strangely?
How well do you know them?
How strange is the behaviour?
Why could they behave strangely?
What might have happened in their life?
People can change for many reasons.
Events...
Medication...
Illness...
Loss...
Stress...
The list is long.
Try to understand what is going on.
Try to have compassion, while respecting your own boundaries.
09.03.2024
What is fair?
What is equal?
What is just?
Does it depend on the situation?
Or is it unilaterally so?
What may be equal, may not be fair.
What may be fair, may not be just.
What may be just, may not be equal.
08.03.2024
Do you have questions?
Are they driving you mad?
Why are they driving you crazy?
What are you doing about it?
Where can you get answers?
Who can help you get them?
Sometimes we repeat a question over and over.
Often, we are not able to answer them.
Fretting about it is useless, get the answer fast.
With every answer will come more questions, that's the game.
06.03.2024
How far do you plan ahead?
How enjoyable is planning for you?
How much time do spend planning?
When have you planned enough?
Planning too many steps wastes time.
Life is not like chess, with clear rules, it is a wicked game.
Most things come differently than you could imagine.
Planning has diminishing returns the further you plan.
Plan broadly, while executing with a fury.
02.03.2024
What is your money for?
What utility does money have for you?
What are meaningful endeavors to spend it on?
What is pure consumerism?
Who might you be able to support?
Money is a tool.
Money has a use.
Money can get you somewhere faster.
Money can make things easier.
Money can also destroy you.
Use it wisely for what is important to you.
04.03.2024
Are there days, where you just don't perform?
Particularly at something you are great at?
What do you do?
Do you get frustrated?
Do you force yourself to try harder?
Performance is not a straight line.
There are days when we simply do not perform.
Try a different task.
Work on another project.
Take a rest.
Change it up and create value elsewhere.
03.03.2024
What is your limit?
Do you try to overcome your limits?
Why are you trying?
How are you trying?
How often do you try?
Which limits?
When do you respect your limits?
Breaking through our limits is crucial.
By how much is the question.
Do not overdo it.
Take a rest from time to time.
29.02.2024
Do you verify the information you get?
Is the information complete?
Do you discover the origins?
How many hands has it passed through?
How was it attained?
By whom?
What agenda do the people have that published it?
We tend to believe information at face value.
We tend to take it as factual.
It is important to be diligent about the information we receive.
28.02.2024
Is there something you want to change?
When is the right time for the change?
Do you wonder how to go about it?
Is the change really the right one?
If you want to change something, just do it.
If you fret about the timing for too long.
Time will make the pain go up.
Up and up, till there is no other option.
Change on your terms, now.
27.02.2024
Do you rate your output?
Do you rate your input?
What is more important?
Do you rate them on quality?
Do you rate them on quantity?
Output and Input can easily get skewered.
Often it is the quality of what we do and get that counts.
Quantity can be misleading.
Be wary to assess yourself accordingly.
Learn from it and do not bash yourself.
26.02.2024
Which social norms do you adhere to?
Why do you adhere to them?
Have you ever questioned that?
How much do they influence your decisions?
Your decisions are shaped by social norms.
More than we would like to think.
Morals, ethics, fairness, adequacy etc.
Be aware of this when you make a decision.
Is the decision really right for you?
Or is it what is socially acceptable?
24.02.2024
What would you do if you had a year left to live?
Would you do the same things you do now?
Would you keep seeing the same people?
Would you live in the same place?
What is missing in your life?
What is there too much of?
Sit down and think about it.
Start making the changes now.
Don't wait to regret it later.
23.02.2024
Do you live well?
Do you live above your means?
What do you need to live well?
What is important to you?
How much do social norms impact this?
How much does your neighbor impact this?
Or your colleague at work?
Or your friends from school?
It is up to you to decide what a satisfying life is.
There is no right or wrong.
Tailor a life to your needs, not others.
22.02.2024
How reliant on others are you?
How many people do you depend on?
How well did you choose them?
How much do their decisions affect you?
Why are you not independent?
How can you become self-sufficient?
Being in a position of dependence is awful.
Some opportunities only exist in co-dependent ways.
Choose the people wisely.
Remember what being a child was like.
21.02.2024
Do you trust your advisors?
Why do you trust them?
In what do you trust them?
What are they responsible for?
Is your problem also their problem?
How important is your problem for them?
An advisor is a tool. They are good at what they do.
They will not keep an eye on everything.
That is your responsibility.
Ask the right questions of the right people.
20.02.2024
How often do you make a mistake?
Once, twice, thrice?
Does it differ for the type of mistake?
Why do you make some mistakes more often?
Is it even a mistake anymore then?
Do you learn from them?
Once is a mistake, twice is a pattern or habit.
Breaking patterns and habits is hard work.
Patterns and habits are not about learning, they go deeper.