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 - This is just my collection
- What are the important problems in your field? If you're not working on them, why not?
- What can you do to make life more fun?
- What is the infinite game you're playing?
- Which of your projects will be a success even if it fails?
- Are you tolerating your flaws or improving them?
- What is the main problem you're focused on solving right now?
- If your worst fears were realised, what actions would at least partially minimise your suffering?
- What are you grateful for?
- Which area of life aren't you giving enough attention to?
- What have you been avoiding? What is the minimum you can do until you run out of excuses?
- What is one thing you're 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 keep working for you years from now?
- What are you optimising for? (Money? Free time? Creative output?)
- What minority of your actions drives the majority of your results?
- How can you create an environment that naturally brings about your desired change?
- What are you avoiding just because the outcome would take longer than you'd like?
- Can your current habits carry you to your desired future?
- What would you do if money were out of the equation?
- What would it look like if it were easy? Or how are you complicating a solution beyond necessity?
- What can you do to make yourself a kinder human being?
- What does truly high-quality leisure look like to you?
- What types of people do you want to spend time with?
- If someone could only see your actions and not hear your words, what would they say your priorities are?
- List your habits. Best? Worst?
- Which activities fill you with energy?
- What fills your time? Does the attention you're giving it match its true importance?
- What piece of media you've consumed in the last year has given you the most joy?
- What important metric are you tracking in your life right now?
- What beliefs are holding you back, and how can you change them?
- How can you contribute more to others?
- How can you turn your current challenges into opportunities?
- What few things can you do to make life easier and more elegant?
- Who are you trying to please besides yourself? Why?
- What do you think is productive but isn't? What do you think isn't productive but you don't realise it is?
- When would you consider yourself successful?