7 Questions That Can Change Your Life
Sometimes we can’t find the answers, because we don’t know how to ask the questions. We embarked on the adventure of designing big questions on general and deep issues, but in the end we got nowhere. Ask, for example, “What is the meaning of my life?” It can be a good way to lose ourselves even more.
Big questions lead to great answers. But there is a difference between “big questions” and “fuzzy questions.” The latter become more than difficult to answer because they involve too many variables at the same time and lack limits that limit them.
Therefore, managing to formulate the question correctly is already a way of anticipating the answer. Next we are going to present you with 7 questions designed for you to evaluate the way you live and define if you are on the right track, or if it is time to stop to take a turn in the direction you are walking. This is not an exam, so take your time to answer them.
1. What would you change in your life if you were told that you were going to die in 10 years? A great question!
Near death experiences change the lives of many people. This is not free. Usually we live as if we are eternal. We completely eliminate the idea of death, even though it is the only totally certain thing in our future.
Remembering that everything will end, all the things that are really important to us emerge more clearly. Therefore, if you dare to answer this question with total sincerity, you can draw a new hierarchy of priorities that will make you happier.
2. What advice would you give a newborn child?
Think about this question very well before answering. In that response, much of what you have learned since your heart began to beat will be condensed. It will be like a conclusion of your experiences and what you have achieved with them.
The interesting thing is that after designing your “wisdom capsule”, what you should do is be consistent with that advice that you would give to that imaginary newborn. Do you already practice it or should you start doing it?
3. If it didn’t depend on the calendar, how old would you say you are at this point in your life?
Age is a very relative matter, although they always try to frame us in a box every time we say how old we are. In a strict sense, since we are born there is a child, a teenager, an adult and an old man within us.
However, what is frequent is that it is one of those ages that prevails at a given moment of our existence. That is why the question is valid: How old are you really? How does being that age make you feel?
4. What has been the biggest mistake of your life and how did you solve it?
The position we take in the face of error is one of the most revealing elements of who we are and how we handle our existence. Both the error, and the way to solve it, provide important keys to understand you better.
On the side of the error, when marking which has been the greatest of your life, surely you can find clues about your main weaknesses. On the solution side, it will allow you to visualize the dynamics that you usually use to face difficulties.
5. What would you love to do, but don’t do because you feel like you can be judged?
The look and opinion of others can be a strong conditioning to act. Sometimes this is healthy, and simply indicates that we have reached a healthy level of adaptation to the environment in which we live.
At other times, behind this conditioning there is a great fear of being judged. We do not act out of respecting something we sincerely believe in, but out of fear of what others will say. The answer to this question brings you closer to your repressed feelings.
6. What are the 5 things you have done this year that you will remember forever?
With this question you can evaluate if you currently live according to relevant objectives or if you have lost yourself in an inconsequential routine. The relevant objectives are not those that involve megaprojects, but those that touch essential aspects of your life.
If you can make the list with relative ease, you surely live intensely. If, on the other hand, you do not easily find those 5 facts, perhaps it is time to review the way you act. You may have forgotten yourself a bit.
7. What job would give you complete happiness? If not the one you have, why?
Everyone should aim to work on what they love. Work is one of the pillars not only of our survival, but also of our mental health. For this reason, the work aspect reveals a lot about our well-being.
Maybe it’s time to think if what you do is really what you love. Are you working on something that you really like? Are you halfway to being able to work on what you love? Or, have you simply settled for a job you don’t want and stop doing something to change?
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