INTROSPECTION

This month I decided I would offer a list of 25 questions that are a great self-evaluation opportunity. As you read through these questions, I invite you to really think over the answers. You may be surprised by them. This is a good exercise. It is always good to get to know yourself better.  To improve the exercise, write your responses down. Again, writing your response is even more likely to show you things about yourself you didn’t know. The best practice of all would be to do the first two suggestions then share these responses with a loved one. This serves to make the exercise more real and lends some seriousness to the realization that you want to make progress toward a desired outcome in your life that is of great importance to you. Think of a place in your life where you are stuck or stressed and then ask these questions:

1. I know I don’t know, but if I did, what would it be?
2. How will my life be different if this issue is solved?
3. Who would I be without my story/obsession/compulsion/behavior?
4. If I were to ask a wise old friend for help, what would his/her advice be to me?
5. What if I were advising a friend? What would I tell them?
6. If I was employed as an investigator, what would I find?
7. If I were a lawyer defending me, what would I say in my defense?
8. If I wake up tomorrow and this problem is miraculously solved, how will I know?
9. Being the ideal me, living my ideal life, what positive attributes would others see in me?
10. If everything were great in my life, what would it be like?
11. What would a perfect day consist of?
12. When haveI been like myself the most?
13. What is my secret passion?
14. If I could change anything, what three things would I put into (or take out of) my life?
15. If I were to have this conversation a year from now, what would have needed to have happened?
16. What could I begin today, this week, this month, or the rest of this year to begin the process?
17. What did I want to do before I “grew up” and “got real?”
18. What would I do if no one else ever found out?
19. What would I do if it were really entirely up to me?
20. What would I do if nobody minded?
21. What would I do if money were no object?
22. What would “Wow!” look like in the different areas of my life? (Work/Career, Family, Finances, Friends, Spirituality, Fun Time/Hobbies.)
23. If I take myself forward to the day before I die and am asked to define what I have done and been proud of in my life, what would I say?
24. Who would I have to be in order to attract the life I want? Would I need to study, meet a different set of people, be in a different place, look a different way, talk with a different emphasis, believe different things?
25. What do I know now that I didn’t know before?

Be honest and have a genuine, authentic meeting with yourself. Good luck!