7 questions to ask yourself as often as possible

1. What do I give to the world?

The main question for today is this: how do you transmit to the world what you receive from it?

A person's success is ultimately determined by what he is ready to give to the world. Dan Waldschmidt author of Be the Best Version of Yourself

So what exactly do you give to the world? What are you creating? Take the time and write down the answer to this question on paper. It is not necessarily something monumental or visible. For example, you may find that you are best at maintaining strong relationships within your family. So write it down. What coin are you paying the world with? Are you just taking or are you ready to give?

2. What do I really want?

Everyone has an inner voice that whispers about desires and dreams. Strengthen it. Write down all the desires that arise in your head on stickers. Whatever they are - great, stupid, strange, funny - write them down.

Some will be fleeting, and some will gain a foothold and sound louder and more often in your head. This is you and your true desires. Don't listen to what others have to say about what you want. If you want - do it!

The second method works in reverse. Get rid of everything that you do not want to do and that you do not need. On a piece of paper, write down all the commitments, beliefs, that is, all "must" that you have. Then answer yourself three questions for each "must":

Where did it come from?
Is it real?
Do I want to follow it?

Cross out any beliefs that don't work for you. Thus, you will free up time and space for yourself in the present.

3. How much can you excuse yourself?

Almost any of our desires that contradict the brain's notions of safety, any action that somehow pulls us out of our comfort zone, meets with powerful resistance. This is called the force of resistance.

For the brain, our way out of the comfort zone is like wildfire. To prevent this from happening, he directs his fire brigades in the form of excuses. Now listen and hear their loud signal. They are driving, and your mind begins to pour fire foam in the form of excuses:

It's so disgusting outside, let's stay at home …
If you leave work, you will starve!
Don't start your own business. None of your acquaintances succeed.
“Don't leave the room. Don't make a mistake”(Brodsky's fire foam).
Don't go to this training. Otherwise, you won't have enough money to live until the end of the month.

All this is a force of resistance. How often does this defensive reaction get in the way of your life?

4. What gives me the most energy?

In The Critical Years, Meg Jay writes, “It's easy to figure out what we love the most. The things we love give us the greatest amount of energy."

This means that you need to watch what moments you have the most energy. For example, if you feel uplifted when painting pictures, paint pictures. If you feel like you have the most energy when you organize big events, organize them. If you're feeling energized at the gym, do it.

Do not try to follow the imposed path and become a lawyer, because your parents wanted it. Or because you have read the rating "The Most In-Demand Professions of the Future."Follow the energy and your passion will definitely find a way out.

5. Important or urgent?

It happens that we are so tired of everything that we don't even want to get up in the morning. We don't have any desires. Complete apathy. All this happens because we are driving ourselves into a swamp of obligations, from which we cannot get out. Due to the fact that we often do what we need, and not what we want, we stop wanting anything at all.

We miss this moment, because the frantic rhythm of our life does not allow us to stop and think about ourselves and our dreams. And, most importantly, about our priorities. What are your true priorities? Perhaps this is a career, changing the world for the better, a strong family, health, a love affair …

Harmony with yourself will allow you to put the most important thing in life in the first place and not stray from this course.

6. Am I growing or degrading?

Man always wants to grow. Sideways, at random - anywhere. If a person does not grow, he degrades. And the point. That is why it is so important to constantly develop in your business. If we don't put in the effort and make the task harder every day, we are degraded.

Everything around us strives for growth. If the root of a tree is prevented from growing by placing a concrete slab on top of it, what happens? The tree will begin to grow sideways. It is the same with humans. Degradation is the same growth. Only sideways.

The more you listen to yourself and do what your inner voice tells you, the more harmonious you will be. Have the courage to admit to yourself what you want and what you don't really want. And also the courage to be true to yourself. Then you won't need any other motivation.

7. Do I often read books?

How many books have you read this year? And in the past? Is that enough or can you read more? Ask yourself important questions more often and read smart and helpful books. The word is eternal, and it is books that will always be that quick way to pump your mind and skills without making your own mistakes. Look for interesting books on the shelves in cozy coffee shops, at the homes of friends and parents, flip through bright editions in bookstores, ask friends to recommend their favorite literature. And the taste for books will definitely come.