I love questions which make you think from a different perspective.
Everyday when I journal I get a daily random prompt from one the questions below
Very few of these questions are mine - I mostly got them form Seth Godin, Tim Ferris, James Clear and a few other thinkers online
- What is one thing you can accomplish today that would make this day a success?
- What is one thing I am looking forward to today?
- Imagine each day is only 12 hours long. What would you cut out?
- Who brings out your best qualities? Can you take five minutes right now to schedule time with them?
- What can you work on today that will continue working for you years from now?
- Am I doing this for Present Me or Future Me?
- Will this cost me time in the future or save me time in the future?
- What am I optimization for? (money? free time? creative output? the ability to choose the objects you work on?)
- What are the minority of my actions that drive the majority of my results?
- How can I create an environment that will naturally bring about my desired change? Both your physical and social environment (the tribes you are part of}
- If you keep living the way you are, what will your life look like in 20 years?
- What am I avoiding just because the desired outcome would take longer than I’d like?
- Assume that more than one path exists to achieve your ideal life. What would some of the alternative routes look like?
- Can my current habits carry me to my desired future?
- Given this season and chapter of my life what should I be working on?
- What would you do if money was out of the equation?
- What are the important problems in your field? And if you’re not working on them, why not?
- How do you want to grow as a person?
- Who do you want to be?
- Think of the ultimate outcome you are hoping to achieve. Is there a path to accomplishing this where you would encounter less resistance?
- What is the forever game you're playing?
- What would it look like if it were easy?
- What will really matter in the long run?
- Are you really a good friend, a good son, brother, nephew, cousin? are you aiming up for everyone?
- What can you do to make yourself a better, kinder human being?
- What area of life are you currently not giving enough attention to?
- What does real high quality leisure look like to you? Are you making time for it?
- What types of people do you want to spend time with?
- What would your ideal future week look like?
- If someone could only see my actions and not hear my words, what would they say are my priorities?
- Which of my current habits serves me most? Which serves me least?
- Am I tolerating my flaws or improving them?
- Am I being effective or just busy?
- Is there a better way? Is there a kinder way?
- What the primary objective here?/what am I actually trying to achieve?
- Does this activity fill me with energy? can I make it?
- Does the amount of attention I'm giving this match it's true importance?
- Are you living for the weekends? are you optimizing your days for what you want?
- What does your morning routine look like? Does it support you long term goals?
- How are you taking care of yourself physically and mentally?
- t are the top 10 things you spend the most time on? Would you like it to be different?
- If you worst fears were realized, what actions would even partially minimize your suffering?
- What are the consequences of inaction?
- If I was looking back as an older me, what would I do differently?
- What would I regret not doing by 25?
- What piece of media/content that I've consumed over the last year has given me the most joy/information/changed me?
- What could you not stop doing for the rest of your life?
- What important metric are you tracking in your life right now?
- How can I view this as a gift?
- What beliefs are holding me back, and how can I change them?
- How can I contribute more to others?
- What am I proud of in my life?
- How can I turn my challenges into opportunities?
- What would I do if I weren't afraid?
- What can I do to increase my energy and vitality?
- What am I grateful for right now?
- What can I learn from this situation?
- What am I happy/proud/excited about in my life right now?
- Who do I love? Who loves me?
- In what ways did I give today? 5
- What have I learned today? 5
- How can my experiences today improve my future?
- Are you spending time with people who are averaging where you want to go? Are they making you better/worse/letting you stay the same?
- Which one of your top 7-10 priorities if done, will make the others irrelevant or easier to do?
- Which of your priorities/projects will be a success even if it fails?(skills/relationships/energy)
- What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? What would you do if even if you knew it was going to fail?
- What is the minimum you can do until you run out of excuses?
- How many pieces can I remove and still achieving the essence of what I'm trying to achieve?
- What few things can you do to make life easier and more elegant?
- Who are you trying to please beside yourself?
- Are you trying to make a difference/ make a living/ leave a legacy? Can you separate making a living from making a difference?
- If you succeed, then what? How are you planning for post-success?
- What do you think is productive but isn't? What you not think is not productive but you don't realize it?
- When would you consider yourself successful?
- Can you make this 5% more fun?
- Are you trying to make a living, make a difference, or leave a legacy?
- How will the world be different when you've succeeded?
- What does busy look like?
- How close to failure, wipe out and humiliation are you willing to fly?
- How open to criticism are you willing to be?
- How long can you wait before it feels as though you're succeeding?
- How much freedom are you willing to trade for opportunity?
- What are you trying to change?
- What do you want people to say about you? Which People?
- What are you doing to ensure you get to keep swimming?