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Five Essential Questions to Ask Yourself Daily
I adore questions. Actually, I think I’m obsessed with questions. This strange love affair has led to tremendous self-discovery. Questions prompt me to dig deep and often unveil beautiful aha! moments. I journal daily and created a book solely devoted to journaling questions.
While flipping through my journal today, I realized that five questions appear over and over again. So I decided to write them on a sticky note and put the note inside my journal cover for easy reference. Now, I am challenging myself to answer these questions daily for 21 days. Up for a challenge? The single requirement: a desire to spend a few minutes each day connecting with your essential self.
The Daily Questions
- What am I feeling?
- What do I want to start?
- What is working? What isn’t working?
- What must I release or let go of?
- What am I grateful for? What made me smile today?
What question(s) would you add? Do you have a daily journaling ritual?
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Twitter: casscomerford
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What a great challenge. I’ll have to add this to my May to-do’s. I’m a big question person too – I love those If…books and I’ve been known to take a game of 20 questions into the triple digits because I am just SO curious…about other people, about life, about myself.
Whenever I find myself hitting a wall I ask myself and force a written answer to this question: Are you going in the right direction? Because…most of the time when I’m hitting a wall I’m not going in the right direction at all.
Twitter: shanglee
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I think the last question should come first. Just start of with “what am I grateful with right now” gives such a sense of appreciation of what we have now. It also gives a positive platform from which all other actions after that can follow. :) Good questions.
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I usually just meditate first and let my mind go to a peaceful space and then my hand just Flows…~~~ I mean somedays Really flows with thoughts and feelings. I look back later and see my Authentic self that came through at that time and it amazes me sometimes the insight i give myself! If i ask a question it is usually referring to a particular issue I’m dealing with or concentrating on at that time. EX: What am I going to do about …? What can I do to make this better? Lord will you Please help me with…..?
This is a great challenge Carolyn, I think I will try this out also ;)
I tend to ask myself – what I want to start? a lot, It’s hard to stay focused if I don’t ask myself that question.
Twitter: clearlycomposed
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Great post! I am totally convinced staying in a place of gratitude is such a gift to ourselves and I love the idea of talking about what’s working too. So often it seems we focus more on what is not working. Glad I visited today. I will be back. :)
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Twitter: dreamdancer90
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These are great questions to ask yourself every day! Maybe I will join you!
Twitter: bbravo
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I like to ask myself, “What would my ideal day look like?” I either write out the description, or list the elements of what would make it ideal.
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Great questions to ask yourself and to lead you forward or not.
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I love the personal wisdom that asking these questions will provide me with on a regular basis. I forget to ask myself the important questions all the time, so your idea to put it on a post-it in your journal? Genius. Thank you. :)
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I love this. I’ve put this on the front of my journal, to spur me to write when I’m feeling blocked. Thanks.
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A question I ask daily, because I am a Christian, is what does God want me to do today to help me help Him? How can I make a difference for the better in somebody else’s life? By making others happy and blessing them, we in turn are blessed.