Self-Awareness 4/5: 100 Questions

Over the course of my journey into the world of personal development, I’ve repeatedly seen and experienced how the best piece of advice really is to just get started.

It’s something I’ve shared again and again in my writing, podcast, and coaching.

But for a lot of people, this only solves half the problem. The other half? Knowing what to get started on. They know they need to take action, but they don’t know what action to take.

This is why I strongly believe the starting point for anyone looking to step off of the conventional conveyor belt of society and create an exponential life is self-awareness. 

As with any journey, we cannot determine how to get to our destination if we don’t know our starting point. You need to know where you are before you can work out how to get to where you’re going.

In order to help you figure this out, I’ve created a 5-part series of articles to help you develop more self-awareness. In this series, I’ll share a new exercise each day to help you get clear on who you are, what you want and why you’re here.

I suggest doing these in a journal over the course of a week (1 each day) or longer if you wish. The point is not to rush through them, but rather to give each exercise (and yourself) the attention it deserves.

Simply find yourself a quiet place with no distractions (cellphones not allowed!) and allow yourself to really get into it.

Here are the links to all 5 parts in the series:

Part 1: Know Your Strengths

Part 2: Your 110-Year-Old Self

Part 3: The Best Self Diary

Part 4: 100 Questions (below)

Part 5: 50 Life Experiences

BONUS: The Hedgehog Concept

If you’d prefer to get all 5 exercises immediately in a pdf guide, you can download my ebook ‘Do You Know You’ below:

Self-Awareness Part 4: 100 Questions

Again in your journal, carve out 45-­60 minutes of quiet time and start writing down any questions that come to mind. Anything goes here. Don’t try to block out certain questions or even worry about answering them for now; just write down the questions that pop up.

In the beginning, these will flow quite easily, but gradually it becomes more challenging as you go. Simply keep the pen moving until you come up with 100 questions in this one sitting.

Now identify any recurring themes which kept popping up in your questions. This could be things like family, your career, money, health, etc.

Next, extract the top 10 questions that seem the most compelling to you and write them in a new list, ranking them in order of most to least important or inspiring to you.

Finally, pick one ‘power question’ and deeply contemplate it. Really dive deep and spend time journaling on this one question.

An example might be: “How can I get paid to do what I love?”

That’s your exercise for today: Braindump 100 questions that come to mind, notice any themes, rank the top 10 and journal on the #1. Then look out for part 5 coming soon!

Alternatively, if you’d like to get all 5 exercises immediately in a pdf guide, you can download my ebook ‘Do You Know You’ below.