Amigos and amigas,

It's 20:39 and the sun is just setting outside my living room window.

The sky looks like a giant strip of bubblegum, waiting to eaten.

I'm sat looking at it while slouched over the sofa typing this, reflecting on the last time I actually ate bubblegum. I've got salsa music playing on the tv, my belly is full because I've just ate a huge steak after a solid workout earlier, but I feel...

Confused. Directionless. Unclear.

Bummer.

Not even a steak can solve an existential crisis.

The truth is, a lot is changing in my life and I feel frustrated at where my life is going and where it's at. I want to change some things. But I've realised in moments like these there's only one thing that helps me get clear (well 2 if I include going on long walks and eating the local plums currently growing in Kent lol but back to the point)...

Having killer questions to ask yourself allows you to get your mind on your side and cut through the noise so you can gain clarity.

Clarity.

On whatever you need.

So below you'll find 60 questions that'll change your life whilst helping you find this clarity.

The contexts covered are: success, self, social, decision making and workflow.

Some you might like to just briefly think about, some you might like to revisit later to answer fully.

Either way, enjoy.

Your clarity awaits...

Success:

Imagine yourself wildly successful, five years from now. How would that feel? How would you relate with the world around you? Try it today.

Do you feel in balance with your inner and outer worlds? If not, what would bring them more into balance?

Bring to mind a time when new opportunities showed up for you. What had you been doing in the months previous that prepared you for them?

What’s the biggest thing you’ve accomplished, with the least amount of initial resources?

What are you not seeing yourself have, do, or be, until someone shows you how? How could you capture the desired image now?

What could you put in front of your mind more regularly that would serve you? Where would you put it?

How would you like to feel and respond when you get your next big surprise?

What’s the best thing that’s happened to you within the last few days? How could you get it to happen again?

When have you recently felt the freest? What created that? How could you create more of that?

If you really focused on the bigger picture for yourself, what new activities might you find engaging?

When’s the last time you did absolutely nothing?

Bring to mind one significant, permanent, positive change that has happened in your life. What small things were you doing consistently that created and/or allowed it to happen?

Right now what one small thing, if installed as a regular activity, would potentially have an enormous payoff for you?

To what degree do you want things to be different for you 18 months from now? Are you getting there as easily as you can?

Self:

What makes life feel shallow?

What makes life feel deep?

What’s something you used to believe in but don’t anymore? What changed your mind?

What belief are you currently holding onto that you'd like to let go? What would your life would like if you didn’t believe it?

In what areas are you not admitting things aren’t ok?

What have you been noticing a lot lately? What might have you been focusing on internally to generate that data?

Imagine something you’d like more of today. Have that thought as many times as you can in the next hour.

What creative use could you make of any unused space in your life?

When you ask yourself what’s the best thing you could be doing at this moment, what’s the answer? What might be preventing you from asking and answering that question?

What’s your biggest problem or issue right now? How are you focusing on it? What image are you holding about it?

What’s keeping you from being totally present today, with whatever you’re doing? What could you do to handle that?

What would it take to face this thing you’re avoiding?

What’s currently causing the most background noise in your life? How could you get it quiet?

When’s the last time you did something really unusual for you? Time to do another?

Have you made a big enough mistake recently?

What could you forgive today?

What’s still just in your head that keeps popping up to remind you about your agreement with yourself to make something different?

What have you avoided dealing with today? Why do you think it won’t still be there tomorrow? How useful would it be to get it off your mind right now?

With anything you consider a problem at the moment, what’s the actual data that causes you to think it’s a problem? Can you see the information another way?

What would you really like to be free of? What discipline is needed where, to accomplish that?

Social:

In what ways do you try to get the attention of others in order to feel acceptance? How could you first give that acceptance to yourself?

In what ways are you blocking the flow of loving connection from others? How could you demonstrate a natural openness to it so it flows easily?

What new game in town do you find yourself in? What’s the next play?

Who’s driving you up the wall? Why? What standard do you hold that that person’s behaviour violates?

What conversations, at what horizon, are due or overdue for you?

How do you hide yourself from others? What would it like to open yourself more to others in a way that made you feel free? Start today.

Decision making:

If you had all the confidence in the world, would you do it?

What if you figured it all out as you went along?

In what location and during what kind of activity do you automatically think from a higher altitude?

Do you have more regrets over the things you haven’t done in life or the things you have?

What intuitive risk do you think you could take right now? What’s the worst that could happen if you took it? The best?

What are you afraid of loosing? Is the fear holding you hostage about getting what you want?

When you don’t know what to do, what are some really good things to do?

Work flow:

If you only had 1 hour a week to work on X, how would you spend that hour?

What project do you need to do more thinking about? What’s the next action to get that to happen?

Which of your routines or procedures feel worn out to you? What would happen if you stopped?

What’s getting a lot of your time and energy at the moment? Are you ok with this?

What are you procrastinating about that seems too complex for your brain to deal with comfortably? What could you do as a next physical action to start a core dump from your head about it?

What potential future crisis could you be working to prevent right now?

What things are you still doing even though you know “the thrill is gone”? What might you do instead?

What can you do today that you know you don’t have time for?

To what extent do you think your systems, processes, or approaches could stand improvement?

If you didn’t need to worry about things you haven’t done, how would you be?

What have you decided to ignore because it doesn’t seem important right now? How important would it be if it were already accomplished? How might you feel once it was done?

Where could you use more looseness?

Where could you use more structure?

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That's a lot of questions.

Take your time to digest the ones that stood out to you.

Thanks for reading.

Until next week,

Lew

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