Do you practice poverty?

What would it be like to live poor?

Have you tried imagining?

Have you tried living like it?

Live a poor life as a form of retreat.

Do it with the intent to learn and prepare.

Money can be taken from you.

Your attitude is all yours.

Do you have expactations of others?

Do you have expectations of yourself?

Are these alike?

Should expectations be universal?

Or dependant on the person?

Expecting the same form everyone is a trap.

No one is alike - people differ.

Set your expectations depending on the person.

Universal expectations breed resentment.

What is the most difficult task you had to do?

What is the most difficult task you might have to do?

Would you have said the same ten years ago?

We underestimate and overestimate tasks all the time.

We are surprised that the most difficult is not on our radar.

We are surprised how something is easy, we thought of as impossible.

Whatever comes your way, give it your best shot.

Do you regret your bad decisions?

How do you evaluate them?

How do you know another path was better?

From which point in time are you evaluating?

What was the experience worth?

How has it changed your life's trajectory?

What would be missing without it?

We tend to beat ourselves up because of past decisions.

We overthink and overcriticise ourselves.

We do not consciously sabotage ourselves.

We make decisions as best as we can at the time.

After all, only at your life's end can you truly evaluate it.

Which opportunities do you take advantage of?

How do you evaluate upside vs downside?

Do you even evaluate them?

Ideally, we want to engage in asymmetric opportunities.

Opportunities with a high upside and a low downside.

Many of us, however, go for the opposite.

How can you create more asymmetry for you?

You only live once...

What does this mean for you?

Fear of missing out...

How does this affect you?

Can you yolo responsibly?

Yolo without responsibility is based on FOMO.

FOMO is seldom a good reason for a decision.

Do you try to predict events?

Or predict how people will behave?

How is that going for you?

How much time and energy does this take?

We are very bad at predictions.

Also if you make a prediction you feel safer taking high risks.

Focus on the basics instead.

Be flexible and prepared for sudden changes.

Is your character constant?

Do you behave the same in every setting?

Are you the same with family as with work friends?

Do your values change depending on the situation?

We behave differently in different settings.

We behave depending on our mood.

We decide depending on many factors.

If you think your character is constant, you life in an illusion.

Is life fair to you?

Is society fair to you?

Is your family fair to you?

Who decides what is fair?

Does fair exist?

Fairness is highly subjective.

For every person in a room, you have another definition.

Don't chase it.

Make the best of what life hands to you.

Is there something that is taking most of your attention?

What are you neglecting due to this?

What are the consequences of this?

Now, how important is the attention robber?

Often, one thing takes nearly all our attention.

The things we neglect may be more important or equally so.

Make sure to keep your attention in balance.

Or it might be too late for what you neglect.

If you were to die tomorrow:

How do feel about that?

How do you feel about what you leave behind?

Are there any loose ends?

The same applies to anyone around you.

If they were to die tomorrow, what then?

Once they are dead, once you are dead, it is over.

Keep that in mind and act accordingly.

Are you prone to cockiness?

Not just towards others, but yourself?

Especially when things are going great?

You might be on a roll?

Cockiness comes before the fall.

When you notice it, be ready for the crash.

You will hit a challenge too great at one point.

You will run out of steam at one point.

When you get cocky, it is time to take a step back.

Do things deteriorate gradually?

Do they get worse suddenly, in steps?

What triggers deterioration?

We forecast linear trajectories.

While in reality they hardly exist.

There are tipping points or sudden events.

Things will deteriorate in sudden moves.

We are forever caught off guard.

Expect the unexpected.

Are you sometimes at your Wits' end?

How does that feel like?

What do you do?

When we are at our Wits' end, we get frustrated.

We can even get angry and lash out.

When your wits have ended get some others'.

Sometimes the solution is easy, not for you, but for someone else.

Call the right person.

How well do you keep your things in order?

What happens when they are unorderly?

How do other people react to order or unorder?

How you keep your things sets the tone.

How people perceive the importance of order.

Your friends, business partners, employees or contractors.

If you seem unorderly, so will they be working with you.

If they are, it causes trouble for you down the road.

Are your energy levels in balance?

How much energy are you exerting every week?

How much energy are you gaining every week?

Where will a disbalance bring you?

When we burn out we exert more than we gain.

What is costing you energy?

What is gaining you energy?

Limit the first and increase the second.

Say more yes to what energizes you and more no to what exhausts you.

Do you tend to intervene?

Why do you do it?

What is your goal?

To what degree do you intervene?

When do you do it?

Interventions need to be well thought through.

Sometimes we need to intervene.

But too much will have the opposite effect.

We intervene to improve a situation.

But who is the improvement for?

The interventionist or the intervened?

Do you need to see things for yourself?

Do you struggle to accept other people's stories?

Do you struggle to understand their perspectives?

We all have biases through which we filter the world.

We all have our own unique perspective.

This can mean, that we will need to see things for ourselves.

Only then can you form an opinion and a decision.

Are you lucky?

Do you know what you are looking for?

Are you ready to seize the right opportunities?

Luck Is What Happens When Preparation Meets Opportunity. - Seneca

You should internalize what you seek.

You should remove all that is unnecessary.

Only then are you ready to seize opportunities when they arise.

Then you will maximize the probability of being lucky.

Are you comfortable?

Is anything challenging you?

Do you like unpredictable events?

The world is full of random events.

The world is full of challenges.

We should challenge ourselves regularly.

But just the right amount to recover easily.

Training ourselves and improving is paramount.

There will be an event one day to knock you out, otherwise.