Anthony Robbins explains in his book “Giant Steps”
1. What do I want?
2. What am I grateful for?
3. What’s missing in my life?
4. Do I see the whole world anew each day?
5. Do I take the time to really listen to what others say?
6. Do I have fun?
7. How can I bring more joy into my life?
8. What do I want more of in my life?
9. What do I want less of in my life?
10. Am I on the look out for opportunities?
11. Do I seize opportunities?
12. Am I open-minded? Am I flexible?
13. Am I quick to judge others?
14. Do I take calculated risks?
15. Do I give others sincere compliments?
16. Do I appreciate what others do for me?
17. Where do I want to go?
18. Who do I want to meet?
19. What adventures do I want to go on?
20. Do I care too much about what others think of me?
21. Do I take offense too easily?
22. What makes me happy?
23. Do I procrastinate?
24. Do I stand up for myself?
25. Do I hold grudges?
26. Do I constantly dwell on the past?
27. Do I let other people’s negativity affect me?
28. Do I forgive myself?
29. Do I smile often?
30. Do I laugh often?
31. Do I surround myself with positive, life-affirming people who want the best for me?
32. Am I a positive, life-affirming person?
33. Am I giving enough time to nurturing/replenishing myself?
34. What is my secret ambition?
35. What do I want to be remembered for at the end of my life?
36. What does success mean to me?
37. How can I add value to the life of others?
38. How can I serve?
39. What can I do better than anyone else?
40. What are my top three strengths?
41. Am I moving in the direction of my dreams?
42. Do I tell others what I really want?
43. What does my ideal day look like?
44. Where do I want to be a year from now? Five years from now? Ten years from now? Twenty years from now?
45. What does my ideal living environment look like?
46. What would I do if I had no fear?
47. What would I do if money were not an object?
48. What excuses am I making?
49. Do I enjoy what I do on a daily basis?
50. Am I on the right path?
51. Am I kind to myself?
52. Am I kind to others?
53. Do I take things for granted?
54. Am I doing what matters most right now?
55. Is there an area in my life that needs more attention?
56. Do I make the best use of my time?
57. What can I do right now that would make the biggest difference in my life?
58. What am I avoiding?
59. What am I tolerating/putting up with?
60. Do I have specific, measurable goals with clear deadlines?
61. Do I keep the promises I make to myself?
62. Do I keep the promises I make to others?
63. For my life to be perfect, what would have to change?
64. What am I most looking forward to right now?
65. What activities do I perform that give me the least joy? Do they really need doing? Can I delegate or pay someone else to do them?
66. How can I simplify my life?
67. Do I see myself as a creative person?
68. Do I allow myself to be creative?
69. Can I be spontaneous?
70. Am I too critical of myself?
71. Am I too critical of others?
72. Do I look at problems from several different angles and perspectives?
73. What have I accomplished?
74. What are the major sources of stress in my life?
75. How can I reduce stress in my life?
76. Do I know where my money is going?
77. Do I have a handle on my finances?
78. Do I have a financial plan for the future?
79. Do I know where my time is going?
80. Have I created an efficient time management system for myself?
81. What are the three biggest priorities in my life?
82. Who are the most important people in the world to me?
83. Who loves me? Who cares for me?
84. Are my living and work areas organized in a way that serves me well?
85. Do I have a healthy lifestyle?
86. Am I carrying any emotional baggage?
87. Have I let go of the mistakes I’ve made in the past?
88. Do I give myself permission to fail?
89. Do I learn from my mistakes?
90. Do I rebound quickly when something goes wrong?
91. Do my beliefs serve me well?
92. Do I need to relax the rules I’ve set for myself and for others?
93. What childhood dreams have I been neglecting?
94. Where have I been giving my power over to others?
95. What do I need to do in order to regain my power?
95. Who are my role models?
96. Am I being authentic? Do I allow myself to be me? Am I trying to be somebody I’m not?
97. What if . . . ?
98. Why not . . . ?
99. How can I . . . ?
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Powerful, indeed.
My favorite: “what am I grateful for?” Seriously, we should ask this question every single day. Especially on bad days.
I have to declare you to be Queen of Lists. You’re very good at compiling them!! These questions here are awesome in getting oneself better!!
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I’m with Evelyn. Mares, you are indeed Queen of the Lists and this is possibly my favorite. I’m going to ask myself every single one in a free writing exercise. Maybe it’ll help me get back my writing/creative mojo.
Kelly
Hi Mare. Excellent list! As you know I’m a big fan of Tony Robbins. How about this questions… “What are you afraid of?”
Davinas last blog post..Step Out Of Crisis And Into Power
Put me down with the others here – you rule at “lists” Mare! And that’s a very cool thing! I love this list of questions, and yet at the same time – it makes me uneasy. Uneasy because some of the questions – well, I’m not sure what the answers will be, or if I’ll necessarily like the answers… Or it some of these will make me re-think “me”…. That’s all good, although it still can be uneasy (especially if I’m honest with my answers).
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Not only are you the Queen of Lists, your lists pulse with energy and opportunity like this one. This list includes almost every personal development topic out there. Lance makes a good point that sometimes the answers are uncertain, scary, or opposite what we want.
This list is definitely not for the timid. Personal growth requires us to strip away the superficial and examine our most private and inner being. Does anyone else find personal growth a roller coaster of exhilaration and terror?
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Great questions!! Certainly self examining yourself often offers insights that can shift our current direction.
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Wow! Great list. Certainly gives a person a lot to think about. It could take days to get through all those questions but a person could certainly learn some new things about themselves if they take the time to really think about and answer each question. Thanks for the insightful post!
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#60 and #80 are a constant challenge. hanks for this…nice list!
Hi Vered: I’ve actually started doing that: if I feel my mind going down a path I don’t like I ask myself: What am I grateful for? It immediately shifts my mind to a more productive line of thought.
Hi Evelyn: Thank you, I’ll take it
Hi Kelly: Creative mojo jump start questions: that’s a great use for this list Kelly.
Hi Davina: That’s a good one
Hi Lance: We all have a tendency not to want to ask ourselves the difficult questions, but the questions that make us uneasy are usually the ones that point to areas where the things we’ve been keeping in our blind spot are hidden. There’s a few of these that made me uneasy as I wrote them.
I think 38 is the best. Whenever you start serving or looking outside yourself, that’s when you grow and become fulfilled.
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Hi Kathy: Thank you, and yes, personal development is a roller coaster of exhilaration and terror. Sometimes when you want more of something in your life you do get it but it comes in such an unexpected way and looks so different from what you thought it would look like that for awhile you can’t recognize it.
Hi Elaine: Just by shifting our attention by an eighth of one millimeter we can get a completely different scene.
Hi Rebecca: I’m thinking of going through the list each night before going to sleep so my mind focuses on them while I sleep
Hi Mark: Yeah, setting SMART goals and coming up with an individual time management system that works for you can be challenging
Hi Chris: I think that at the end of the day that’s the key to happiness: helping others.
This is awesome! We rarely ask ourselves questions, but require that of other people. “What do I want” definitely should be number one.
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Thanks Marelisa for that list of questions. I will print it out and stick it to my wall and answer one every day.
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I plan on giving Anthony Robbin’s a read. Which of his books do you think is the most worthwhile?
This is a good reminder to the value of asking questions and its affect on the mind.
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Great set of questions! Voltaire would approve. He said, “Judge others by their questions rather than by their answers.”
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Life is about the questions you ask yourself not the answers you receive. I had a hard time understanding this. I way always grasping for answers, but over these past couple years I realize it’s the questions that steer your mind in the right direction and the answers will come when you are ready.
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Hi Bamboo: I would read “Awaken the Giant Within” first. Right now I’m listening to a video of Tony Robbins at his blog: http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/
Hi Carla: I think asking ourselves: “What do I want?” is key to living our best lives.
Hi MindfulMimi: I think that’s a great idea
Hi Lori: I hadn’t heard of that quote by Voltaire, I like it.
Hi Karl: The quality of the answers that you get is definitely determined by the quality of the questions that you ask.
What an awesome challenge! This list also seems like a fantastic way to journal for a few weeks. You’re always ready with the inspiration I need, Mare!
Sara at On Simplicitys last blog post..Lower Expectations Can Sometimes Be a Good Thing
Mare, great list and this is my first time I write a comment on your blog.
Many of the questions have not been thought by me before. Some of them made me contemplate. Some of them reminded me about what should I do.
Thanks for sharing this, Mare.
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This is an amazing list, and it could keep a person busy for days! If you could come up with 266 more, then you’d have one for every day of the year. Perfect for an inspiration calendar…
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Wow Mare – I’ve been reading through these questions and I know I’m going to have to print them out and take the time to answer them properly.
How do you come up with all this stuff? You should write a book – but not just an ebook. It would be so useful to have a lot of your posts in a paperback book.
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There’s an award for you over at my blog – http://ofbooksandwriting.wordpress.com
Hi Sara: Thank you, using these questions as inspiration for journaling is a great idea
Hi Arswino: I’m glad these questions made you think, and it’s my pleasure
Hi Melissa: Hey, that’s a great idea. Or for a journal like Sara pointed out
Hi Cath: I’ve read more than my share of self improvement books. I really appreciate your encouragement Cath
Why are all these questions so hard to answer?
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Hi Marie: Thank you for the award
Hi Squawkfox: They are hard, aren’t they? But I think the more you ask them the faster the answers will start to come.
I ask myself a lot of these questions daily! Sometimes I find an answer. Sometimes I don’t. Sometimes my answer changes (and I think that’s ok). The important thing is that I take the time to ask myself and reflect on the question and answer. It gives me greater insight into who I am, and what I want to be. If I don’t think about what I want and make things happen, life is gonna slip on by (and I really wouldn’t be happy with that).
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#27 really got to me. I don’t just let other peoples negativity affect me but all of their emotions. I seem to absorb the energy of those around me. I am constantly telling myself that I am not responsible for how other people feel.
I’ve noticed my daughter seems to absorb my moods as well. I wonder if it is something that children tend to do or if is a trait that she has picked up from me. It works great, though, when one of us is really happy.
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good questions to ask so we understand what we need MORE of in our life. linked to it in my latest post
thank you for being such an inspiration!
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Awesome list of questions! I love it. My favorite is # 98!
It is fun reading all of them. You Rock!
Thank You,
Giovanna Garcia
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Hi Giovanna: Thank you, I like number 98 too
Hi Ricardo: It’s important to reflect on our lives, and most people don’t take the time to do so. I also think it’s OK if your answers change over time.
Hi Kim: I’m susceptible to picking up the moods of those around me too. What I do is I visualize a white egg-shaped light surrounding me and then I “create” a trellis around it and fill it with roses (with thorns). That helps me keep other people’s negative energy out.
Hi Misty: I saw your post, thank you. I left a comment there.
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