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 is one thing I am 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 continue working for you years from now?
- Am I doing this for Present Me or Future Me?
- Will this cost me time in the future or save me time in the future?
- What am I optimization for? (money? free time? creative output? the ability to choose the objects you work on?)
- What are the minority of my actions that drive the majority of my results?
- How can I create an environment that will naturally bring about my desired change? Both your physical and social environment (the tribes you are part of}
- If you keep living the way you are, what will your life look like in 20 years?
- What am I avoiding just because the desired outcome would take longer than I’d like?
- Can my current habits carry me to my desired future?
- Given this season and chapter of my life what should I be working on?
- What would you do if money was out of the equation?
- What are the important problems in your field? And if you’re not working on them, why not?
- What is the forever game you're playing?
- What would it look like if it were easy?
- What will really matter in the long run?
- What can you do to make yourself a better, kinder human being?
- What area of life are you currently not giving enough attention to?
- What does real high quality leisure look like to you? Are you making time for it?
- What types of people do you want to spend time with?
- What would your ideal future week look like?
- If someone could only see my actions and not hear my words, what would they say are my priorities?
- Which of my current habits serves me most? Which serves me least?
- Am I tolerating my flaws or improving them?
- Am I being effective or just busy?
- Is there a better way? Is there a kinder way?
- What the primary objective here?/what am I actually trying to achieve?
- Does this activity fill me with energy? can I make it?
- Does the amount of attention I'm giving this match it's true importance?
- If you worst fears were realized, what actions would even partially minimize your suffering?
- What are the consequences of inaction?
- What would I regret not doing by 25?
- What piece of media/content that I've consumed over the last year has given me the most joy?
- What could you not stop doing for the rest of your life?
- What important metric are you tracking in your life right now?
- How can I view this as a gift?
- What beliefs are holding me back, and how can I change them?
- How can I contribute more to others?
- How can I turn my challenges into opportunities?
- What am I grateful for right now?
- What can I learn from this situation?
- What have I learned today? 5
- Which of your projects will be a success even if it fails?
- What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? What would you do if even if you knew it was going to fail?
- What is the minimum you can do until you run out of excuses?
- How many pieces can I remove and still achieving the essence of what I'm trying to achieve?
- What few things can you do to make life easier and more elegant?
- Who are you trying to please beside yourself?
- What do you think is productive but isn't? What you not think is not productive but you don't realize it?
- When would you consider yourself successful?
- Can you make this 5% more fun?
- What does busy look like?
- How long can you wait before it feels as though you're succeeding?
- What do you want people to say about you? Which People?