35 questions to stimulate self-reflection – John Spence

Written by Frank Sonnenberg

When was the last time you stopped to think about your life? You’re too busy for that, right? Don’t want to know whether you should continue at full speed or whether you should deviate from course? Here are 35 questions to encourage self-reflection. They will help you identify your values, discover your driving forces, challenge your behavior and determine whether you need to recalibrate your course.

Finding the right answer starts with the right question.

A moment of self-reflection

1. Are you doing your best or just enough to squeak by?
2. What has more value to you: relationships or things?
3. Is your focus more on planning for the future or reliving the past?
4. Doing you to define Good Or let others define it for you?
5. What should not do you do for money?
6. How does the public you differ from the private you?
7. Do you put as much effort into training your mind as you do your body?
8. Are you a good one? role model?
9. Would you choose to be friends with yourself?
10. What criteria do you use to determine happiness?
11. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
12. Is your reputation overrated or underestimated?
13. What are your top priorities? (Do you treat them accordingly?)
14. Would you compromise your integrity to get what you want?
15. What are the most valuable lessons you have learned?
16. Are you a giver or a taker?
17. Do you think for yourself or do you follow the package?
18. If someone were to write your biography, what would it be called?
19. What mistakes have you made more than once?
20. Are you more likely to accept responsibility or blame others for your disappointments?
21. Do you generally try to please others or please yourself?
22. Is it more important to you to be liked by others or by yourself?
23. You buy things because you want to them or because you need them?
24. How do you know if you are? true to your values or deviate from course?
25. Do you set your own course or go with the flow?
26. Would you rather be? successful or Cheerful?
27. Do you appreciate what you have or do you take things for granted?
28. Are you proud of the way you live your life?
29. Who are your role models? What makes them special?
30. Are you living your full potential?
31. What stops you?
32. If you could live your life again, what would you do differently?
33. What do you wish others knew about you?
34. If you could achieve one more thing, what would it be?
35. How do you want to be remembered?

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Frank Sonnenberg is an award-winning author and a noted advocate for moral character, personal values, and personal responsibility. He has written ten books and has been named one of “America’s Top 100 Thought Leaders” and one of “America’s Most Influential Small Business Experts.” Frank has served on several boards and advised some of the largest and most respected companies in the world.

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