How much of your time is killed by unforeseen events?

How often do you have to wait in line?

How often is your transport delayed?

How often do you have no-shows?

How do you feel when it happens?

Carry around a good book.

The kind is of no importance.

Waiting will become bliss for you.

How do you behave in front of others?

Do you show your true self?

Or do you present a public persona?

How deep are the acquaintances you make?

Showing your authentic self is challenging.

Sometimes, people will take advantage.

Some people won't like you.

But who matters more?

The people that like YOU or those who don't?

Where do you look to more, inward or outward?

Where do you get your creativity from?

Where do you get your motivation from?

Where does life really happen for you?

We can be overly outward-focused.

Remember to take time and look inside.

Go and mine those hidden gems within you.

How difficult are the things you attempt?

What do you have to lose, if you fail?

Does this make you stick in your comfort zone?

How well do you learn from easy things?

Desirable difficulty is just difficult enough.

It is barely out of reach.

It will make you improve, a lot.

Staying in your comfort zone is poisonous.

Do the people you work with, have skin in the game?

Will doing a bad job create a consequence for them?

Will it create a consequence for you?

Whose consequences are bigger?

Skin in the game creates responsibility.

Responsibility is a prerogative for quality.

How can you create more skin in the game for your partners?

Is no Evidence of harm the same as Evidence of no harm?

Who is responsible to provide evidence of their view?

The one doing potential harm?

The one suspecting potential harm?

Do not confuse the two.

They are not the same, yet often put equal.

When there is no evidence, it is a prompt to look deeper.

How much do you credit chance?

For your successes?

For your failures?

Which random encounters were game-changers?

For good and for bad?

We tend to credit chance too little.

If you are honest it plays a huge role,

both in success and failure.

Learn to work with it and use it to your advantage.

Are you fasting regularly?

What are you consuming?

Food, entertainment, people, etc.?

How can you go on a fast from these?

You can go on a fast on anything.

Regular fasting in all areas has huge benefits.

Your body and mind recover and become stronger.

Are you being a burden?

Who might you be a burden for?

In the past, present and future?

Might you be a burden after death?

How can you make sure you are not?

Try to live your life, so you are not a burden.

If you do not, it will burden your mind.

It will burden your legacy.

Are you considering any interventions?

Are you sure they are necessary?

Do you need to take that medicine?

Do you need to micromanage that employee?

Do you need to protect your child from mistakes?

We tend to intervene more and earlier than we should.

In our job and private life.

Interventions do more harm long-term than they do good.

Consider carefully when to intervene.

What goes on in your head when someone contacts you?

Do you wonder what they want?

Do you make assumptions as to what they want?

Do you ask them directly?

Often, we do not ask the simple question.

Instead, we ruminate, think and strategize.

Or we ghost the person.

Ask directly, it is that easy.

Which people do you struggle communicating with?

Where is the problem?

Do they listen to you?

Do you listen to them?

Have you tried an intermediary?

Often for a host of reasons, people are unable to communicate.

These misunderstandings can easily be solved.

Get a "translator", someone who speaks "you" and "them".

What is bothering you?

What are you ruminating about?

Why are you not sharing it with others?

Why not seek other perspectives and advice?

We do not know everything.

We do not see every solution.

We do not understand all of our problems.

Go and speak to others, get ideas, and stop worrying yourself to death.

Are you able to surprise yourself?

Surprise yourself with your incredible performance?

Surprise yourself with your incredible stupidity?

We are able to deliver amazing results,

yet we are also able to make stupid mistakes.

It is the same person, yet vastly different outcomes.

What will you bet your future on?

How long will a certain technology last?

What will come next?

Which events will be pivotal for you?

We cannot predict the future well.

You can make educated bets.

Chance will decide if you are right.

Diversify your bets and increase stability.

How many reasons do you need for a decision?

What are the main factors for you?

Which decision have worked well in the past?

Which decision have not worked well?

You really only need one good reason.

You feel you need more?

That is a sign that you are not confident in the option.

So maybe it is time to look for another option.

Is a question going around in your head?

What do you do?

Maybe it is not the right time?

Maybe you are scared of the answer?

Unless you answer it, it won't go away.

It will go around and around and around.

Even if the timing is bad, get the answer.

There is no way around it.

Answer it or decide it is unimportant.

How much efficiency is enough?

Which redundancies might you need?

Should you run at maximum capacity?

We are often driven to maximum efficiency.

Redundancies are the enemy.

What happens when a sudden event takes place?

At maximum efficiency, there are no more resources.

This puts you at the risk of total failure.

Less efficiency and more redundancies.

When comes the gratification from your work?

Do you do things with instant gratification?

Do you do things with delayed gratification?

Which one works better for you?

Why?

It is short-sighted to only have immediate payoffs.

It is frustrating to only have delayed payoffs.

Mix it up. Do some of each. Alternate.

How do take breaks?

How many breaks do you need?

What do you need to relax?

What do you need to keep away?

We tend to take too little breaks.

Exhaustion seriously impacts quality.

Quality of life, quality of work, quality of thought.

Take what you need, when you need it, and how you need it.