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.

What is required of you?

What do you wish to do?

Are they the same?

Often, they are not the same.

What do your goals, require of you?

Are you ready to do what is required?

Many goals will require things of you,

things you do not wish to do,

yet they need to be done to reach the goal.

How stressful is the end of the year?

How stressful is Christmas?

Do you feel obliged to be different?

Do you feel pressured to do things?

What is so different from the rest of the year?

The end of the year is a trap.

A trap ready to catch you off guard.

Why say yes now, if you would say no?

Why do something differently now?

How much patience do you have?

How much do you control?

How do control and patience align?

Impatience can be like a fuel.

Or it can be like a break.

Whose choice is what it is?

Things we do not control require patience.

Patience can be applied to things we control.

What do you expect of others?

What do you expect of yourself?

How do you treat others?

How do you like to be treated?

We often employ double standards.

We might expect more of others, than ourselves.

We might treat others worse than we want treating.

Or the other way around.

Yet, is it always the right to have equal standards?

How do you celebrate?

What kind of things do you celebrate?

What does it mean to celebrate?

Why do you celebrate?

Wit whom do you celebrate?

Celebrating is important.

Important events need to be celebrated.

We should do something that marks a celebration.

We could dress in a way to mark a celebration.

We should celebrate with the right people.

How do you handle random adverse events?

What goes on in your head when they happen?

What do you interpret into them?

How do these interpretations come about?

Random adverse events happen to everyone.

Sometimes they happen often.

Sometimes they do not happen at all.

We tend to interpret too much into them.

A random event is just, well, random.

How efficient do you plan what you do?

Have you employed super tasking before?

How much do you get done in a day?

What is the quality of the work?

Planning for efficiency has an Achilles heel.

Efficient does not mean good.

The class quality vs quantity dilemma.

We can plan our days efficiently, cramming everything in.

But is it really worth it?

Where is the space to take advantage of serendipity?

How well do you predict effects and consequences?

How often are you surprised by them?

How severe have they been for you?

How many effects and consequences are possible to predict?

Everything has effects and consequences.

Everything we encounter in life does so for us.

It is difficult to predict them and react to them.

We get blindsided by them because we forget about them.

Some effects and consequences come at a delay,

and some immediately.