10 Questions You Need To Ask Yourself in 2015

This year, instead of making lofty resolutions, perhaps we should take a pause to look inward—to evaluate what is and isn’t working in creating a fulfilled life. In this moment of reflection, we can expand our personal awareness by asking for some of these keys questions to ask yourself this new year.these key questions.

1. What type of person do you want to be?

We spend a lot of time creating strategies for our careers and businesses, but often pay little attention to defining the type of people we want to be. What are the values ​​that define you? How do you make people feel? Have you deposited or withdrawn energy? Because at the end of the day, that’s the only thing that really matters. That’s the only thing people will ever remember about you: the feeling you made them feel.

2. Do you keep your heart and mind open?

Life can be tough. When you regularly experience loss, face rejection and disappointment, it can be challenging not to let the hardships wear you down. Don’t let this world harden you. Remember: the more walls you build around your vulnerability and authenticity, the further you move away from joy.

3. Will the decision you are about to make feed your ego or enrich your soul?

Use this question as a filter for future decisions. Our egos have an insatiable hunger: the more you feed them, the more you need them. When we transact with our ego, we deplete our light and often feel empty, unfulfilled, or insecure.

4. Do you accept mediocrity or strive for greatness?

It takes courage to do what you want, to give your heart completely, to live passionately and dust yourself off after every setback. But I would rather fall a thousand times in my attempt to achieve greatness than walk the path of mediocrity unscathed. Nothing great in life comes from minimal effort and mediocre company. Raise the bar, but know the difference between the pursuit of excellence and the obsession with perfection.

5. Are you taking a risk?

Indecision is an apathetic habit of our culture. We live in a world of infinite options and, as a result, a prevalent fear of ‘fear of missing out’. So it’s tempting to approach life with one foot in it enjoy maybe, constantly striving for better options, and postponing decision-making until the last minute. But there is maturity and courage that comes from making a commitment. Dedication requires discipline. Commitment requires integrity for its implementation. Dedication comes with risk, and with it the opportunity for reward.

6. Do you want to avoid pain, and at what cost?

Life is too short and too full of potential to waste days on average experiences and meaningless interactions. Connect. To give. Go ahead, keep your hopes up. Disappointments have trained us to fall into a state of cynicism as a way to control our emotions. So we talk ourselves out of not being excited about something or someone in an attempt to avoid feeling hurt. But isn’t that what makes life beautiful? To feel? It is the entire spectrum of human emotions – the good, the bad and the ugly – that colors the chapters of your life with an interesting storyline. When you dull your ability to feel the bad, you dull your ability to feel the good. You become numb. Apathy is hell for me.

7. Do you allow fear to control you?

Why should the bad experiences of the past ruin the good experiences ahead? I prefer to live life through a lens that sees the world as a beautiful and kind world, rather than being in a state of constant defense, layered with armor to protect me from what may or may not happen. Stop waiting for the other shoe to drop – it’s the cause of a lot of unnecessary anxiety. The stress and negative energy you create does nothing for your situation or the world around you. When things fail or fall apart, deal with it. Give yourself the credit you deserve so that in the event of an emergency, you will have the ability, tenacity and strength to deal with the situation – at that moment. So for now, give yourself permission to enjoy the present.

8. Is your story useful?

Something we all have in common is that each of us will have some version of an imperfect childhood. Even those fortunate enough to have loving parents will still grow up with some problem, insecurity, or habit that stems from their upbringing. The degree or type of problems one faces in adulthood is not what separates a person who is happy from one who is not. Rather, it is the internal story we believe that does. We are a sum of the stories we choose to believe, and if that story is negative, rooted in insecurity and a place of lack, then that is what we will get from every experience and person we encounter. We may not be able to change the events in our history, but we can choose to change the story we have attached to those events. Ask yourself: which story defines your life? Is the story you believe serving you? If you change the story, you change the outcome.

9. Do you want to be a force of beauty?

Be beautiful. Be a person who acts with grace and integrity, even when your emotions are challenged. Make everything you touch beautiful – do this by focusing your heart completely on the way you approach life – your relationships, your work, your hobbies. Approach life from a place of abundance versus a place of scarcity.

10. Love or fear?

When in doubt, choose love. Love Wins. Love always wins.