How does your environment affect you?

How do you affect your environment?

Would changing environment help you?

How would changing yourself help you?

Which one is more important?

Without question, our surroundings affect us.

Without question, we can get dealt a horrible hand.

Without question, it is your decision how you react.

Sculpt your environment and your character.

Don't blame one or the other.

Are you doing the right things?

With the right people?

In the right way?

Look at things that failed.

Is the answer "no" to one of them?

When it is "no" to all they were catastrophic for sure.

Look at what you do now.

Then act accordingly.

How would I feel?

What could I have done?

What should I have done?

How could it be?

And so on...

These questions can help for learning.

And that is all.

Do not rumminate on it.

Learn and carry on, do better next time.

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...

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.