How do you assess if you should take a job?

Do you compare your values with the clients/employers?

That can be hard to accomplish, so we default to what we get paid.

How much is one day of unhappiness worth to you? Put a number on it.

Do they pay more than the unhappiness will cost you? It might be worth the shot.

Do you take others' problems upon yourself?

Why do you do it?

Because you feel responsible? Because you want to help?

Helping is not the same as taking on responsibility.

People need to be responsible for their problems.

Especially within your family. Don't be the fixer of your social group. Try to enable other people to fix their problems. To own their problems.

This is a penguin.

We all know what a penguin is, right?

Are you sure about that?

Ever wondered if the same word, means the same for everyone?

And what emotions are attached to it?

Associations with words can differ significantly. This can make communication tricky. For some a penguin is cute and for some, it is an abomination.

Do you have unclear situations in your life?

How do you feel about them?

What is stopping you from making them clear?

Ambiguous circumstances, relationships or conditions are poisonous. They create unhealthy tensions.

Try to make everything clear, crystal clear. Clarity is a superpower, so use it.

Do you experience sudden drops in energy levels?

What did you do before that?

Did you eat something?

Did you drink something?

Did you perform any tasks?

Don't just rationalize your energy slouches away. Take the time to analyse them. There surely is a reason for them and there surely is a solution to avoid them.

What is the one radical decision...

...that would change your life?

Forget all the obligations you have.

Forget all the anxieties you have.

Forget all the advice you are given.

Forget all the rules that stop you.

Write it down and figure out the way forward.

Do the criteria of others seem weird to you?

Do their goals make no sense in your mind?

Maybe you miss something?

Other perspectives may make these points valid and worth aiming for.

It helps to ask, why someone is trying to achieve something, before making any assumptions about it.

Something you need to do...

But you don't feel like it?

How long will it take you?

Less than two minutes or more?

If it is less than 2 minutes, get up and do it. You can thank yourself later.

How often do you need to change plans, due to people?

Due to someone else not being able to decide something?

Or changing their priorities?

Or someone who just talks and talks and talks?

Or who is simply late to a meeting?

There is a host of reasons, why you can not plan predictably when people are involved. Keep some flexibility in your plans and carry on.

What do you need to start?

Are you waiting for the perfect conditions?

Do you need to gather more information?

Or would you like more experience first?

Are you waiting for your best friend's mother's dog to give you the right sign?

The time is now. You need to take a leap of faith. Otherwise, you will never start.

Do you feel like something is dragging you down?

But you can not put your finger on it?

Maybe you have bottled-up emotions?

Keeping emotions inside ourselves is a millstone that will hold you back. They might be emotions towards friends, family or anything that has happened in the past.

You cannot unleash your full potential till those are freed. Look forward and shake off the shackles of the past.

Do you ever let greed take over?

How have decisions based on greed played out for you in the past?

Greed can be a driver to achieve great feats, but at the same time, it can make you go too far and be your downfall.

Greed can make you sacrifice long-term results for the short term. It can destroy relationships.

Use greed carefully to your advantage, but never let it take over.

What are you thinking about right now?

Your and your family's history and past decisions?

Your and your family's future?

Is any of it worrying you?

What is there to worry about? We can not shake off the past. Just accept and understand it. We can not see the future either, but we can work on it. We can actively try to design it.

Action wins the game of life.

Where are you a professional and where are you an amateur?

How do you choose between hobby and vocation?

How do you define professionalism?

Money comes to mind but is not necessarily a requisite for professionalism.

Professionalism is about how we behave. How seriously we take it and if we have established a practice.

It is worth some time to decide whether you want to be professional about a topic.

Do you have something you would really like to do?

Something pulling at you with all its might?

And yet you don't get going?

You are not ready yet. The time will come. But what about my job? etc.

This is your inner resistance holding you back.

What are you waiting for?

You are ready now.

Do you ever let greed take over?

How have decisions based on greed played out for you in the past?

Greed can be a driver to achieve great feats, but at the same time, it can make you go too far and be your downfall.

Greed can make you sacrifice long-term results for the short term. It can destroy relationships.

Use greed carefully to your advantage, but never let it take over.

Do your ToDos pile up to an excruciating number?

Do you try to double down on them and it is not working?

Do your ToDos inspire you?

If not, consider adding things that do to the list. It is counterintuitive, but sometimes we must work on something motivating us. With that motivation, we have more energy to get through the rest.

Have you stood at an appointment before where no one turned up?Why did that happen?

Do you think you should have checked with everyone an extra time?

Sometimes, it seems evident to us that everyone is on the same page. However, they are not. Asking for extra confirmation can pay off. It is just one more message or call.

Do not take anything for granted. No people in your life, no scheduled travels, no appointments, and so on. Nothing. Why not, you may think? The world is a fickle place and nothing is guaranteed, not even your insurance. Be prepared to improvise.

What and who is truly important to you in life? You will encounter all these urgent tasks, which will grab your attention. Do not let them. Do the important things, with the people who are dear to you, right now. If you do not, it might be too late.