How important is being polite for you?

How important is sticking to your personal criteria?

Which of the two is more important?

Can you politely decline, without feeling bad?

Often, we are offered something.

Usually, the person offering is trying to be nice.

Sometimes, the offer is not adequate for us.

Taking the offer for politeness's sake is a bad idea.

It will come back to bite you.

Communicate your criteria and decline politely.

Accept when others do the same.

How often do you solve the wrong problem?

When do you realize that you did so?

Why does this happen?

How can you find the root problem?

The obvious problem is often the wrong one.

Asking the right questions is the key.

Asking "why" often enough is a good method.

Ask "why" at least 5 times to get close to the root.

The closer you get, the better your solution will be.

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Which assets do you own?

What are your strengths?

What are your weaknesses?

Do your assets and your strengths align?

Taking care of your assets requires your time.

Leveraging your strengths is paramount.

Matching the right assets to you is crucial.

More crucial than most of us think.

So do your assets match who you are?

How important is the reason for you?

When someone cancels on you?

When something has happened?

When someone makes a decision?

Often, we are obsessed with the why.

Sometimes, this is important to know.

Sometimes, it is meaningless.

Where is your energy and time better invested?

Accepting and carrying on, or finding the reason?

How do you go about fixing a problem?

Do you formulate a plan?

And then go ahead and execute the plan?

Do you take a moment to look back?

Do you tend to notice, if you had a problem before?

Many problems we have encountered before.

We tend to forget many of these problems again.

Take a moment to remember, before planning.

It will safe you time, effort, and usually money.

A decision has been made, that affects you.

What do you feel?

How do you react?

What do you do?

Do you fight, do you support or walk away?

Often in life, we suffer the consequences of other's decisions.

We can fight them, support them, or walk away.

Often fighting is pointless, even if satisfactory for a while.

Not always we can walk away.

Nor can we always support them.

When do you decide to rest?

When do you continue taking action?

How much chaos can you bear?

How much control can you relinquish?

Sometimes we cannot relax before a certain point.

Sometimes we cannot continue without rest.

Where is this balance for you?

Learn to stomach the chaos,

resting will be so much easier.

How do you go about getting people on board?

How do you convince them to follow?

How do you change their opinions?

How do you change their behaviors?

Do you tell them they are wrong?

Many have tried this and succeeded.

Even more have tried and failed.

Changing the position of a person is hard.

Telling them they are wrong does not work.

How often does the coin drop for you later?

Maybe, after someone insulted you?

Maybe, after you were accidentally rude?

Maybe, after someone gave you a warning?

Maybe, after someone communicated implicitly?

How long does it take for the coin to drop?

Often, you won't get what happened till later.

Often, this is frustrating, yet totally normal.

Make the most of the dropped coin,

for sometimes it may never drop.

How often do your expectations reflect reality?

How often do others' expectations reflect reality?

How does this difference occur?

What can you change to improve the ratio?

We rarely expect what we get correctly.

Other people rarely expect you correctly.

We can try to improve our odds at this.

And we can improve how we handle it.

How do you value your time?

Is your time at 20 worth the same as at 40?

How much time do you trade for money?

Where do you invest your time?

In life, we constantly trade time for other things.

Money, joy, experiences or stress, pain, consumption

Often the exchange rate is unfair.

Often we trade for the wrong things.

Trade for the right things, at the right time.

How do your decision-making capabilities vary?

Do they differ depending on the day?

What effect does your sleep quality have?

How important is your physical health?

How does stress move across different areas?

We do not have to decide right away.

Yet, often we feel we need to.

And often it is bad timing.

When are you in an optimal mood to decide?

How do you decide if something was worth it?

What timeframe do you look at?

Which criteria do you use to gauge it?

Did you have a goal in mind?

Often we will do things that we feel were not worth it.

But, were they really not worth it?

Or did we just not see their worth?

Criteria, timeframe, and the goal are critical.

Many things were worth it ten years later.

How do people passing by you live?

Whose life is more exciting, stressful, or complex?

Which stories are you part of?

Who is the main character in them?

Every person is living out their own story.

In some stories we are important.

In many, we do not even exist.

In some, you are a random dude in the background.

To sonder is to realize all of this.

How directly do you communicate?

Do you tell people what you mean?

Or do you communicate implicitly?

How often does it come to misunderstandings?

Most people have a directness deficit.

Out of fear of being impolite,

we often communicate in complicated ways.

In the end, this only leads to misunderstandings.

You can be direct and polite.

How often do other people disappoint you?

How often does their behavior offend you?

How many are they repeat offenders?

Which behavior repeat?

Every person has a unique situation.

Every person has their character.

Every person has their own challenges.

Accept other people and their situation.

Don‘t be surprised by how they are,

If you decide to continue to engage with them.

How good are you at judging people online?

How good are you at presenting yourself accurately?

How often do you misinterpret written communication?

Can you read between the lines?

Often we create an image of someone.

This is based on our perception.

And boy, can we be wrong.

Before meeting face to face,

Prepare yourself to be surprised.

How often do you take a bet?

Are you sure it is not more often?

How often do you make an educated guess?

How often do you bet on yourself?

And how often do you bet on others?

Life is more about taking bets than we like to think.

Every investment is a bet.

Probabilities and stakes may be different.

In the end it is all a game of betting and odds.

Stack the odds in your favor and bet on yourself.

How much do you follow global events?

Which ones do you follow?

Why do you follow them?

Do they deliver critical information for you?

We are often mesmerized by the news.

Yet much of it is meaningless for us.

It makes no difference for us.

We cannot do or want to do anything about it.

Make sure you follow only what is critical for you.

And use it for decision-making.

What do you care about?

What do you worry about?

Is there a link between the two?

Can you care, yet not worry?

When we care about something,

we can get obsessed about it.

So much that we will worry.

Then worry becomes paralyzing.

And we stress out.

Why all of this? Can you not simply care?