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5 Reflective Questions to Discover Who You Are and What You Want
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Reflection and introspection
- Introspection is simply looking in. Stopping there not only limits your perspective, but it can also diffuse it. It can lead some to pessimism, or even depression.
- Reflection is looking in so you can look out with a broader, bigger and more accurate perspective. Without reflection, your life becomes happenstance—activity without insight.
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Authenticity
Authenticity is about getting closer to our true identity.
The more authentic we become, the more we are authoring our lives, and not simply living someone else’s script. And the more authentic you become, the greater is your sense of well-being.
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5 reflective questions
- What are the five non-negotiable values in my life?
- What would I do if I were guaranteed success?
- What are the experiences I want to have?
- What is on my schedule that doesn’t need to be there?
- What am I doing that I don’t enjoy, and what am I doing that I love?
Powerful insights will be generated through this reflection, without any need for additional information.
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The Benefits of Self Awareness
It involves three elements to get you where you want to go:
- Introspection: the process of attempting to directly access one’s own internal psychological processes, judgments, perceptions.
- Self-reflection: the examination, contemplation, and analysis of one’s thoughts, feelings, and actions.
- Insight: the clear discernment of a solution to a problem. It’s the result of self-reflection and introspection.
Don’ts Of Introspection
- Don’t obsess: More thinking about yourself won't automatically lead to deeper knowledge.
- Don't ask the wrong questions: When we ask why questions, our brain points toward the most obvious answer. We usually land on the one that confirms our pre-existing beliefs.
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"Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune."
Jim Rohn
Work On Yourself
Your work is a reflection of you. If you want something different: improve yourself.
If you're not getting the results you're looking for, stop looking for better strategies. Instead, look inside. Try to continuously improve yourself, by expanding your vision, skills, and abilities.
Put Yourself In Difficult Situations
You need to put yourself into positions that create immense pressure. The kind of pressure that will either make or break you.
This is how you purge out your weakness and small-mindedness. It won't be pretty. But it will change you.
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"Being spiritual" nowadays signals:
- People that believe there is more to the world than meets the eye, more than the mere material.
- People that attend to their inner life (their mental and emotio...
Understanding the world
Spirituality is a framework for understanding the world. It enables people to make sense of that which, for them, science and religion fail to address: religion because it's outdated and out of touch with scientific progress, science because it's incapable to answer some of life's most crucial questions (of purpose, meaning and value).
Outer Space vs. Inner Space
The Dalai Lama once joked: "While the West was busy exploring outer space, the East was busy exploring inner space".
Regardless of the veracity of this, it does seem that for contemporary western societies, silence and stillness are an exception, not the rule.