Days of disaster

How well do your days go?

How frequent are days of disaster?

How much are they in your control?

How do you react to them?

We all have days of disaster.

Days when many things go wrong.

Days when we get up on the wrong foot.

Anything we touch turns to dust.

These days are best left in the past.

These days are not so bad, tomorrow.

Half-Done vs Conquering Mountains

How often are you stuck mid-task?

How often is this not your fault?

How often can you fix it?

How often must someone else fix it?

Not being able to finish things is frustrating.

If you cannot fix the problem, even more so.

You have no choice but to leave it half done,

and to wait, and wait, and wait, till it is fixed.

Some days are like this.

On other days, we conquer mountains.

Timing

How important is timing?

How good are you at timing?

When is timing crucial?

When is timing less important?

How can you make up for bad timing?

Timing is essential, always.

Sometimes it is even crucial.

Sometimes it is only an important aspect.

Some of us are great at timing,

Some of us are bad at timing.

However, the prepared and persistent can outlast timing.

Yet timing and chance go hand in hand.

Simple yet Difficult

Which simple tasks are difficult for you?

How do you feel when you fail at these?

Which complex tasks are you good at?

How do you feel when you excel at these?

We all have our specific struggles.

Sometimes, with seemingly easy things.

We all have our strengths.

Sometimes, they are exceedingly difficult.

After a day of failing at easy things.

Remember the times you excelled.

Saying Yes

Why do you say yes?

How often do you regret the yes?

Did you say yes to please?

Did you say yes out of shame?

Did you say yes out of pride?

Did you say yes out of fomo?

Or from the bottom of your heart?

All of us are compelled to say yes,

Often for the wrong reasons.

And we all regret it later.

Stop and think!

Trust vs control

When can you trust?

When do you need to control?

When do you need to check?

How do you know if to trust or control?

We have all trusted too soon at some point.

We have all been controlling at some point.

Sometimes we trust, when we should have checked.

Sometimes we double-check, where we should have trusted.

This is a non-binary game.

We will get it wrong regularly.

Just get it right more often.

Useless things

Do you own useless things?

How useless are they?

What could you use them for?

Why still have them if there is nothing?

We all own seemingly useless things.

Their intended use has no value to us.

But they tend to have other uses,

uses that are not immediately obvious.

An old park bench and some firewood,

can make a wonderful shelf.

Holding on too long

How long do you hold onto things?

At what point do you let go?

What is your criteria for holding on?

How does it feel to give them away?

Many of us have more possessions than we need.

We buy too readily upon a whim.

We give it value according to the price.

Even if we have no need, we hoard them.

Every thing is a burden, a mental load.

Be quicker in gifting or selling them,

before they turn into trash, before it is too late.

Leaving behind

How do you leave things behind?

Do you prepare them for a revisit?

How orderly do you depart?

What will the next person find?

Some of us leave things in an orderly fashion.

Places, relationships, projects, etc.

Some of us leave things in a mess.

Most of us have done it both.

You never know if you might revisit.

Leaving a mess can bite you in the future.

Always leave orderly, whatever it is.

Surrounded by addiction

What are you addicted to?

Why do you keep doing it?

What would life be like without?

Are you sure there is nothing?

Addictive things surround us.

Substances, games, foods, etc.

Many become an overbearing habit.

The habit stops serving us, it becomes destructive.

Question the things you regularly do and consume.

What purpose do they serve?

Performance vs Fun

How important is performance for you?

How important is fun for you?

Are they linked together for you?

Or can you have one without the other?

We all love to perform well.

And we all love to have fun.

Yet, we can have one without the other.

We need to perform without any fun.

We can have amazing fun with bad performance.

Make sure to know when which matters more.

Give it your all

How often do you give your best?

When you don’t, why?

When you do, why?

What do you need to always do?

We all struggle to try hard at times.

When things are not like we envision.

When we are tiered and depleted.

When we do not feel valued.

What is your expectation of yourself?

That is all that matters.

Low hanging fruit

Which fruit do you harvest first?

What criteria do you apply?

Is quality or simplicity more important?

Is it possible to be doing both?

We all love to pick the low-hanging fruit,

for it is effortless and quick.

But do you only pick the ripe ones?

Or do you pick them all?

Looking at the short term makes sense,

but only if quality is not compromised.

Often, the high-hanging fruit is ripe sooner.

Great Plan Gone Bad

How often does a great plan turn bad?

How obvious is it in hindsight?

What were your assumptions?

What tends to go wrong?

Plans seem bulletproof on paper.

Till they meet reality, and evaporate.

To plan, we research, think, and make assumptions.

All of it can be flawed, deeply.

Dreams unfollowed

When are you ready?

Why are you worried?

Why do you need more time?

What is the worst that can happen?

We all have dreams.

Dreams that need us to start.

Yet, we never feel quite ready.

That is the paradox.

You need to start without readiness.

Otherwise, dreams will stay just that, dreams.

Revisiting old habits

When did you last revisit an old habit?

How did it feel when you did?

Why is the habit now an old habit?

What other habits could you change?

Some habits are better left unvisited.

For some others, it is powerful to revisit.

Often, we learn that we miss it.

More often, we remember why we stopped it.

Gutbrain

How healthy is your gut?

How well can you concentrate?

What role does your gut play there?

How important is gut health to you?

Our body is a complex system.

Our gut plays a big role in performance.

Most of us ignore this.

What do you feed your body?

Bad fuel and a weak engine make for bad performance.

Other’s Promises

How often do you need to deliver?

Deliver on other people’s promises?

Why does this happen?

How can you reduce this?

Doing work that others promise,

happens more often than we wish.

Or pushing to meet a deadline,

that was not discussed with you.

Defending your boundaries strictly helps.

Clear Communication is another.

Forgiveness

How easily can you forgive?

What do you need to forgive?

When can you forgive?

Can you forgive unconditionally?

We all need to learn to forgive.

We all have specific needs for it.

We all have individual situations.

It depends also on the other party.

Unconditional forgiveness is the holy grail.

Striving for it is a worthy goal.

Price-Performance

How well do you gauge the price-performance ratio?

How do you define price?

How do you define performance?

How often is a good deal a horrible deal?

Price-Performance seems straightforward.

The price can be more than just money.

Performance is what you get.

Defining performance is individual.

Not everything that is important can be measured.

What is freedom worth?

What is time worth?