What’s your level of “happiness”?

Do you know what you really want in life? Have you taken the time to really slow down long enough to take stock of just where you are and where you want to go? What do you think of your life as it is?
As the years tick by and the roller coaster we call life continues on its nonstop ride it is easy to forget to take stock of what’s on the inside. It only makes sense. We do it for our financial well being. We do it for our health with regular visits to the doctor for checkups. Why is it that we don’t make a concentrated effort to look at our life, goals and level of happiness with equal diligence?

Here are ten big questions that might help you discover what you are feeling about your life. Take some quiet time alone when you are comfortable and relaxed and answer these questions. Write as much as you want; write freely and without self consciousness. Use as much space as you would like and take as much time as you need. (You don’t have to finish this in one setting.)These questions are designed to expand you! No one needs to see this but you so be as honest with yourself as possible.

Ten Big Questions

1. What is working best in your life right now?

2. What is the most challenging aspect of your life right now?

3. What do you like about yourself?

4. What one aspect of yourself would you most like to change?

5. Are you willing to change it now?

6. What motivates you?

7. How do you deal with “failure” or making mistakes?

8. What typically holds you back from going after what you want?

9. What is the one big thing do you want more of in your life?

10. What are you willing to do to get it?

Before you can change something in your life you have to know what it is you want to change. You have to get absolutely clear with yourself. Find what it is that you want; not what society says you should want to make you happy. Taking the time to discover what you really want and why you haven’t achieved it are the first big steps towards getting it. Once you clearly define this you can devise a plan. You can get passionate about it. You can focus on it, expand your ideas, and find the tools and people who can help you. You can develop a pattern of certainty and the belief it is inevitable…. and achieve it.

“There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.”
Soren Kierkegaard (b. 1813, d. 1855)

Answer these questions! You might be surprised at what you discover!