If you’re feeling lost, and you feel like you wish to either begin the journey of self-actualisation, or if you have started and wish to keep the momentum going and take it to the next level then I have 50 powerful questions that you can use to do just that.
My advice is to pick a few of these to start. Find the ones that interest you and the ones that target areas that you feel you wish to work on. Take a notebook and a pen, find a space of solitude and deeply contemplate these questions. You will be surprised at the answers that come up once you have built up a little bit of momentum after 15-20 minutes or so.
Trust the process, the answers are within you.
The trick with asking questions, is to push long enough, with a certain intensity, so that you end up moving past the surface level trivial answers and make it to the deeper answers within you. This is where the gold is to be found.
Some of these questions can be picked randomly, others apply to specific situations.
50 Powerful Questions To Change Your Life
- What do I want?
- What connects me to reality?
- What disconnects me from reality?
- What is one small thing I could change that would improve my life?
- What do I value in life?
- What work do I do in life that doesn’t feel like work? In what possible ways could I turn this into a career?
- What is the highest vision I could possibly imagine for my life?
- Was this a belief I derived for myself and if not, where did it come from?
- Does chasing pleasure end up in lasting joy and fulfilment? If not, what things do I pursue that give me a true sense of happiness?
- In what ways could I be more authentic and self-expressive?
- What is my relationship to life?
- In what ways could I make each single day as powerful as possible?
- What are long-term games I could play that would pay me dividends in the future?
- What decisions could I make that would change the trajectory of my life?
- How can I life the best, most profound life possible?
- Is my awareness the same as the thoughts that I have? Or am I just aware of thoughts?
- In what ways are all the pieces of my life interconnected in one big system? How does each piece affect all the other pieces?
- What are 10 powerful books that I could read?
- In what ways could I be more open and loving towards other people?
- In what ways do I self-deceive myself?
- Who do I look up to in this world and what qualities do I admire in them? How can I work to embody those qualities better?
- How can I consciously challenge myself?
- In a conflict situation: What are the potentially valid reasons that this person has a certain perspective? What would my perspective be if I were in their shoes?
- In an uncomfortable situation: What about me and the way I work causes this particular situation to disturb me? How can I change so that it no longer bothers me?
- What do I want to build for this world?
- How can I make life more exciting and meaningful?
- How will my behaviour change after reading this book/watching this video/reading this piece of research?
- What principles can I put in place to make more powerful choices in life?
- What truths am I not willing to face?
- How can I be more selfless?
- What input in a specific area gives me 80 percent of the output?
- Where in my life can I choose to let go more?
- In what way can I meaningfully design my space?
- In what small way can I improve the nutrition that I put in my body?
- What systems can I implement to live a more powerful life?
- What reasons do I have for self-actualising?
- Does this particular activity/habit/person bring genuine value into my life?
- How can I be of more value to the people around me?
- Where do I blame external circumstances?
- What about my life can I choose to be more grateful for?
- How am I being a weak human being?
- What was the structure of the mistake that I made?
- What might I do now to prevent this pursuit or project from failing?
- How can I accept myself more?
- What decision can I make in this situation?
- What is the best long-term choice to make in this situation?
- If I were 10 years older, what would my older self say to me about what he/she wished I had done?
- How can I approach my life like that of a craftsman or an artist?
- What brings me long lasting, genuine happiness?
- What are the most powerful questions I could contemplate?
The trick with asking high quality questions such as these, is not to arrive at one perfect answer, but to spend the time working through the topic at hand and generating insights and visions for your life. The goal is deeper understanding. Moving through that process to get there is invaluable. The powerful thing about these questions is that they build momentum, which will snowball into new questions, new investigations and realisations you may not have even been looking for.
Make asking high quality questions a consistent habit in your life. Develop a deep practice around being curious and wanting to grow your understanding of the life you want to build and how to self-actualise yourself to higher and higher levels.
I challenge you to ask one powerful question every week for a whole year. Your life will change in tremendous ways.
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