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.

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.

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.

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.

How important is a person to you?

Do you try to distinguish people consciously?

How do you go about it?

Why would you do it?

We only have so much attention we can offer.

We only have so much time that we can offer.

Choose carefully who you give this to.

Imagine someone dying tomorrow, how do you feel?

Use this to distinguish between people.

What is your goal?

Behind what you do?

Behind what you say?

Behind your decisions?

Are your goals conscious?

Are your goals even worth it?

Or do you operate unconsciously?

Which biases may affect your goals?

Operate from a place of authenticity.

Do the things for the sake of doing them.

Enjoying the process beats running after a goal.

Are your goals even worth it?

In what state do you make decisions?

In what emotional state?

In what physical state?

How good are your decisions in extreme states?

How good are they in a balanced state?

When we are in an extreme state, we make bad decisions.

Try to be more balanced before you do.

Learn to calm yourself and,

Understand how to pick a better moment.

Do you give your best?

When do you give it your best?

What is worthy of your best?

Why don't you give something your best?

Why do something and not give it your best?

How does it feel if you give your best?

Can we really always give our best?

Not giving your best in a commitment is depressing.

We do not choose all our commitments.

Give your best where it counts.

Give your best as much as you can.

Do you limit yourself?

By what you expect of yourself?

By what you believe you can achieve?

By who you believe you can be?

By what you believe others think of you?

By what you did in the past?

By what your family expects from you?

What would happen if you stopped limiting yourself today?

Build that legacy.

How many chances do you give?

How many mistakes do you forgive?

How often do you turn a blind eye?

When do you say "enough is enough"?

Once or twice is fine, more often, it is a pattern.

Patterns should not be forgiven.

Patterns should be broken.

Cannot break a pattern?

Why should you suffer it further?

Are you stressed about your stress?

Do you worry your health will be impacted?

Do you worry about what it will do to your performance?

Do you worry about the effects on your relationships?

Does this stress you even more?

Is the worrying helpful?

What could you do to improve the situation?

Studies have shown that worrying about your stress is poison.

It is worse for you than not worrying about it.

If you are worried about it, then do something about it.

What did it cost you?

To gain the knowledge that you have?

To gain the experience that you have?

To gain the skills that you have?

To gain the character strengths that you have?

How did you get there?

What did it cost you to become who you are today?

That is what your brand is worth.

That is what your service is worth.

Are you charging accordingly?

Do you spend time honing your "soft" skills?

Or do you prefer honing your "hard" skills?

How do you define soft and hard skills?

Is this the same for everyone?

Which are more important?

Working on your Character strengths is more effective.

Studies have shown this.

Should you then ignore "hard" skills?

Work on them both and emphasize character traits.

How negotiable are your standards?

Should they be negotiable at all?

Are they adequate?

How do you know if they are?

Or are they too high?

What are your standards for yourself?

Should they be the same for others?

Usually, it is not worth compromising on your standards.

Your standards derive from your values.

Are your values negotiable?

When is it time to give up?

When is it time to let something go?

Where is the difference?

When is it time to grit and when to quit?

We can tend to persist too long and for the wrong reasons.

Grit is persistence with a passion.

Giving up things we are passionate about is painful.

Letting things go that are not right, is blissful.

Do not let doors close on you.

Do you feel criticised?

What did the person say?

Why did they say it to you?

Was it really criticism?

Why do you feel criticised by it?

When someone communicates their feelings,

We may feel falsely critised.

Communication is tricky and people are clumsy.

Be careful what you interpret.

Did something good just end for you?

Or maybe a horrible phase just ended?

Do you feel the good end too fast?

While the bad phases last too long?

The ebb and flow of life happens to everyone.

Make the most of the good phases.

And equally of the bad phases.

You learn from them both.

You grow from them both.

Are you feeling stressed out?

Is your body aching?

Are you tired?

Do you lose your temper quickly?

How high is your pulse and blood pressure?

What about your cortisol?

Our mind and body are connected.

If one is suffering the other is too.

Stress can have physical origins.

Physical pain can have mental origins.

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Where do you draw the line?

At which point is it your responsibility?

At which point do you suffer the consequences?

Where is the line that needs overstepping?

What is important to you?

Often we come into positions where we feel torn.

Torn between avenues of action.

Torn between responsibilities.

Torn between two decisions.

Often we are put in these situations by others.

Decide carefully what to do.

Quick fix or thorough solution?

What is your favorite?

Or does it depend?

And depending on what?

Can you follow up on a quick fix with a long-term solution?

Or is the decision you make final?

How important is the quality of the solution?

For how long has the solution got to be in place?

Quick fixes are often only good for a short time.

Anything that needs to last, should be solved carefully.

Sometimes time is of the essence.

Weigh up your options wisely.