How do you respond to a task well done?

With someone you work with?

With your children, partner, or parents?

With yourself?

We tend to focus on criticism.

The drive for constant improvement.

Do you honor a job well done?

Do you communicate this enough?

What happens when you take a step forward?

How do people react to it?

How does it make you feel?

How do you react to it?

The evolution of yourself calls upon barriers.

Part of this evolution is to break through these.

This will challenge your confidence.

This will challenge your resolve.

It is a sign of taking the right step.

How do you react to feedback?

How does it make you feel?

Does it make you anxious?

Do you get defensive?

What is there to worry about?

Defending yourself shuts down the opportunity.

The opportunity to learn, improve, and connect.

Stay open, even if it is hard.

Take it in, and reflect on it later.

Beware, not all feedback is worthy to take by heart.

What kind of life do you want to live?

Which practices does that require?

Which routines make sense in your vision?

Often, we focus too much on routines.

A routine is a collection of practices, in a specific order.

The important parts are the practices.

They are the content of the life you live.

What matters more?

Doing the right thing or doing it in the right order?

How are you experiencing life?

Are you trying to prolong your life?

Are you trying to enjoy your life?

Are you fully aware of the present unfolding?

You can try to prolong your life.

You can try to improve your life.

Intesivy what you experience rather than prolong.

Short Intense bliss beats drawn-out misery.

Do you believe that anything you do is your choice?

Do you own what happened to you?

Why did you make each choice?

Not everything that happens is our choice.

But how much of it is our choice?

Pretend that everything has been your choice.

Answer, why you chose it and be enlightened.

How do you react to unpleasant situations?

Do you try to ignore them?

Do you pretend it is positive?

Do you refuse to accept it?

Situations are what they are.

Acceptance of the situation is crucial.

It is the first step of the path.

Accept to solve, to improve, to conquer.

How much of your time is killed by unforeseen events?

How often do you have to wait in line?

How often is your transport delayed?

How often do you have no-shows?

How do you feel when it happens?

Carry around a good book.

The kind is of no importance.

Waiting will become bliss for you.

How do you behave in front of others?

Do you show your true self?

Or do you present a public persona?

How deep are the acquaintances you make?

Showing your authentic self is challenging.

Sometimes, people will take advantage.

Some people won't like you.

But who matters more?

The people that like YOU or those who don't?

Where do you look to more, inward or outward?

Where do you get your creativity from?

Where do you get your motivation from?

Where does life really happen for you?

We can be overly outward-focused.

Remember to take time and look inside.

Go and mine those hidden gems within you.

How difficult are the things you attempt?

What do you have to lose, if you fail?

Does this make you stick in your comfort zone?

How well do you learn from easy things?

Desirable difficulty is just difficult enough.

It is barely out of reach.

It will make you improve, a lot.

Staying in your comfort zone is poisonous.

Do the people you work with, have skin in the game?

Will doing a bad job create a consequence for them?

Will it create a consequence for you?

Whose consequences are bigger?

Skin in the game creates responsibility.

Responsibility is a prerogative for quality.

How can you create more skin in the game for your partners?

Is no Evidence of harm the same as Evidence of no harm?

Who is responsible to provide evidence of their view?

The one doing potential harm?

The one suspecting potential harm?

Do not confuse the two.

They are not the same, yet often put equal.

When there is no evidence, it is a prompt to look deeper.

How much do you credit chance?

For your successes?

For your failures?

Which random encounters were game-changers?

For good and for bad?

We tend to credit chance too little.

If you are honest it plays a huge role,

both in success and failure.

Learn to work with it and use it to your advantage.

Are you fasting regularly?

What are you consuming?

Food, entertainment, people, etc.?

How can you go on a fast from these?

You can go on a fast on anything.

Regular fasting in all areas has huge benefits.

Your body and mind recover and become stronger.

Are you being a burden?

Who might you be a burden for?

In the past, present and future?

Might you be a burden after death?

How can you make sure you are not?

Try to live your life, so you are not a burden.

If you do not, it will burden your mind.

It will burden your legacy.

Are you considering any interventions?

Are you sure they are necessary?

Do you need to take that medicine?

Do you need to micromanage that employee?

Do you need to protect your child from mistakes?

We tend to intervene more and earlier than we should.

In our job and private life.

Interventions do more harm long-term than they do good.

Consider carefully when to intervene.

What goes on in your head when someone contacts you?

Do you wonder what they want?

Do you make assumptions as to what they want?

Do you ask them directly?

Often, we do not ask the simple question.

Instead, we ruminate, think and strategize.

Or we ghost the person.

Ask directly, it is that easy.

Which people do you struggle communicating with?

Where is the problem?

Do they listen to you?

Do you listen to them?

Have you tried an intermediary?

Often for a host of reasons, people are unable to communicate.

These misunderstandings can easily be solved.

Get a "translator", someone who speaks "you" and "them".

What is bothering you?

What are you ruminating about?

Why are you not sharing it with others?

Why not seek other perspectives and advice?

We do not know everything.

We do not see every solution.

We do not understand all of our problems.

Go and speak to others, get ideas, and stop worrying yourself to death.