What is your load limit?

How does your load limit change?

How good are you at loading yourself?

Does it differ for different areas?

Plans, tasks, responsibilities, belongings, people etc.

We tend to overestimate the load we can carry.

We load up till our axles break.

Incremental load increases are the road to take.

How do you feel at year's end?

How do you feel at the year's start?

How do they differ, if at all?

How much pressure do you feel?

The start of a new year can be stressful.

We can put ourselves under pressure.

Pressure to do and be better.

Rome was not built in a day,

and nor do you change in a day.

What do you focus more on?

Processes or goals?

Why do you prefer one over the other?

Or does one need the other?

If we do not know where we go,

we cannot pick the right path.

Yet if we do not pick the right path,

we shall never arrive at our destination.

How well can you concentrate?

When do you struggle more, when less?

Why do you struggle more or less?

What helps you concentrate?

Concentration is important.

But, not always easy to do.

Do what helps you, no matter what.

Walk, read out loud, stand, music, noise etc.

Who cares at the end, how you made it?

How much does a task cost you?

Can you afford to do the task yourself?

Can you afford not to do the task yourself?

How can you gauge real costs vs opportunity costs?

We are faced with this dilemma often, daily even.

Sometimes the real costs outweigh opportunity costs.

Sometimes we need to do something ourselves.

For lack of funds, lack of time, or lack of whatever.

Sometimes we can outsource for better use of ourselves.

When do you get stressed?

How often is it a time issue?

When time is the issue,

how did you get there?

Did your decision cause the stress?

Often, when we are stressed,

it is by our own making.

Saying yes too often, packing too much in.

Less is often more.

How well do they work for you?

How many do you set yourself?

What kind of things do you set?

Do you reflect on the bygone year first?

Often, these resolutions fail for us.

What type of person are you:

Goals, Processes, Themes, Intentions?

Use what works for you.

Less is more, don't overdo it.

And listen to yourself.

What do you want?

What is your worst nightmare?

What is your biggest bliss?

What do you cherish?

What do you despise?

Your worst nightmare is someone's bliss.

Your biggest bliss is someone's nightmare.

What is strange to you, is normal to another.

Find these people and share your nightmares.

How do you like to celebrate?

How do others around you like to celebrate?

How do you end up celebrating?

Are what you like and what you do aligned?

Everyone has different preferences.

Not every feast is liked by everyone.

Not every feast is celebrated by everyone.

Why should you buckle to outside pressure?

If you celebrate forcefully, are you even celebrating?

How often do you have a genius idea?

How often is this idea horrible at second thought?

How often are you thrilled by the idea?

How often are you disappointed by the second revelation?

Most first ideas are terrible.

So are the second and third.

It is normal to believe a terrible idea to be genius.

Going from genius to dumb repeatedly is part of the process.

In the end, there awaits a truly genius idea.

What is your contingency plan?

Where do you have plans?

Where do you not have any?

Why should you make these plans?

Anything can happen at any time.

Preparing for these makes sense.

Sadly, we often don't prepare.

We do not want to think about it,

about our fallibility and mortality.

How often does your communication fail?

Do your actions transport your intentions?

How are your actions perceived?

How might those perceptions be interpreted?

To understand your intention is a long road.

There are three bridges to cross.

At each bridge, there is a potential for error.

Usually, there is at least one faulty crossing.

One crossing is in your power, the other two are not.

How volatile is the quality of what you do?

How volatile is your physical condition?

How volatile is your sleep quality?

How volatile is your mental condition?

One day we can smash a task.

The next day we fumble the same task.

Our daily condition is rarely stable.

We have good days and bad days.

Do not let this get under your skin.

Who are you considering to reach out to?

Why have you not done so yet?

What is there to worry about?

What is the worst that can happen?

Usually, we know whom to reach out to.

Often, we worry and do not.

We imagine all these things,

ultimately they are fiction, your own fiction.

Write that email, make that call or drive by.

How often do you reverse-engineer your success?

What made sense once the result was there?

Why did it make no sense before?

Without knowing your path,

would you have been able to reverse-engineer?

Often, what we do makes no sense.

And rightly so. Life is often random.

How many tried the same and failed?

Do not overly reverse-engineer your successes.

How well are your things in order?

Can an outsider grasp the situation in one look?

Do you still have a full understanding?

Who can you trust to share the understanding?

Whatever we do, should be done so anyone can understand.

Should we leave, another can take over.

Also, if anyone can understand, so can you.

Otherwise, we can lose the overview fast.

When were you last on a fool's errand?

What are you working on right now?

How do you know if you are on an impossible task?

At what point can you identify a fool's errand?

Who likes to set you on one?

Many a time in our lives will we be the fool.

Unknowingly so, up to a point.

Some of us are on one for all our lives.

And sometimes repeatedly.

Look at past errands and search for commonalities.

Do not fall for them again.

How often do you lose your temper?

What triggered your eruption?

What is the reason for the emotions?

Are they the same?

Often we build up tension because of something.

Often, we are triggered by a banality.

A banality that has no connection to the tension.

Actually, this is most often the case.

Why did that person just scream at you?

How much can you trust an average?

How often do you use averages?

How many decisions have you based on them?

How well have those decisions gone?

Often, averages statistically distort data.

An average without a median is worthless.

If you are given one without the other: why?

Try to get the full picture first.

How often does rage overcome you?

What enrages you?

What is the trigger for the outburst?

How do you feel afterward?

We all experience rage from time to time.

We can get enraged for all kinds of reasons.

Some people cannot help themselves, and some can.

It is part of being human.

Remember to apologize afterward, to yourself and others.