Reflect on these questions to get to know yourself:
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You in essence
- In one sentence, who are you?
- What makes you, you?
- What is one thing you are NOT?
- What makes you unique?
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Your purpose, passions, dreams and goals
- What do you love to do?
- What are your passions?
- What are you positively addicted to? (Psych 101 defines positive addiction as “a healthy high that makes you stronger.)
- What are your dreams?
- What are you living for?
- What gives you meaning and purpose?
- What do you really, really want in life?
- What are five strongest values?
- What do you want to accomplish?
- What do you most look forward to achieving in your life?
- What do you like to daydream about?
- What does success look like to you?
- What is something you are 100% devoted to?
- If you could write your own eulogy, what would the last sentence be?
- What is the most important goal in your life right now?
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Your treasure
- What three things are you thankful for?
- What four things are most important in your life?
- If you had to move and could take only three things with you, what would you take?
- What is the best advice you ever received?
- What makes you smile?
- What is the most sentimental possession you have?
- In order of importance, how would you rank: happiness, money, love, health, fame?
- What is your number one motivator in your life right now?
- When you are old and grey, what will matter most?
- What makes you feel complete?
- What would your perfect day look like?
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Your beliefs, values and principles
- What are your strongest beliefs? Which empower you? Which hold you back?
- What principles do you believe in? Do you live by them?
- What are your values in life? Which hold you back? Which empower you?
- What do you know to be true, unquestionably beyond doubt?
- What do you stand for?
- What is your life motto?
- If you could hang a motto or saying in every home in the world, what would it be?
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Your feelings
- How do you feel about yourself – physically, emotionally and mentally?
- What three words describe how you feel right now?
- How happy are you?
- What really makes you happy?
- When do you feel sad?
- When do you get angry?
- What scares you?
- What inspires you?
- What is your favourite feeling?
- Are you optimistic or pessimistic? How does this impact your happiness?
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You at your best
- What skills do you have?
- What are your talents and gifts?
- Which people have influenced you the most and how?
- What are you an expert at?
- What are your strengths?
- What energises and motivates you?
- What are you like at your best? What circumstances bring this about?
- I am most comfortable and confident when __________________ ?
- What are your positive habits?
- What are your personal qualities that you like?
- What are your greatest achievements?
- What do you value most in yourself?
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Reflecting back on past experiences
- What decisions in the past have had the biggest effect on your life?
- What is the hardest thing you have ever experienced?
- What experience tested your mettle but made you a better person?
- What are your three most significant memories from childhood?
- What are the greatest adversities and challenges you’ve experienced? How have they impacted your life? How did you grow from them?
- What events in your life have led to your greatest growth?
- What past events in your life have affected you the most and how?
- What is something new you recently learned about yourself?
- When did you experience a major turning point in your life?
- What’s the most difficult decision you’ve ever made? How did it turn out?
- What are your greatest failures? What have you learned from them? How have they impacted on you?
- What mistakes have you made in the past and what did you learn from them?
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Your limitations, obstacles and challenges
- How do the expectations of others influence you?
- What’s not working in my life right now?
- What stands between you and your potential?
- How do I self-sabotage?
- What are your weaknesses?
- What are you like at your worst? What circumstances bring this about?
- What are your negative habits?
- What is your most annoying habit?
- What saps your strength?
- What specific issues represent your life challenges?
- What is your attitude and response to failure and mistakes?
- What is your attitude and response to adversity and problems in life?
- Do these attitudes help or hinder you?
- What are your most persistent worries and negative thoughts?
- What fears are most holding you back from achieving the life you want?
- In what way are you your own worst enemy?
- What have you given up on?
- What has been draining your happiness?
- What makes you miserable?
- What are your prejudices?
- What mistakes do you make over and over again?
- What issues do you continually refuse to confront?
- What is one reason you’re stuck where you are?
- What causes you the most stress in life?
- What is one thing you must give up to move forwards?
- What is one area of your life where you feel out of control?
- In what way are you your own worst enemy?
- What is the top source of heartache in your life?
- How have you sabotaged yourself in the past 5 years?
- What am I tolerating / putting up with?
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Your shadow
- What aspects of your nature are you constantly at war with?
- What aspects of your nature do you find hard to accept?
- What parts of you do you dislike?
- What irritates you most about others?
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Your relationships
- Who do you love and who loves you?
- What is your relationship with yourself? Loving and affirming? Or critical and antagonistic?
- Which of your qualities, behaviours and values support your relationship with others?
- Which hinder the quality of your relationships with others?
- What is something you wish more people knew about you?
- What do you value most in other people?
- What people energise you? Make you feel depleted?
- What qualities do you look for in a friend?
- Who are the 5 people you spend the most time with?
- Are these people enabling you or holding you back?
