Ask Yourself

Are you robbing yourself of success and happiness in the year ahead? It’s a good question.

Life and work is what you make it.  No matter who you are, you can benefit from re-evaluating your direction for the year ahead. It helps ensure that you have a revitalised clarity moving forward and are making the most of what life has to offer you. It’s a bit like having an insurance policy for having no regrets. After all, you could spend your life doing many different things – but what is truly the best way of living your life by design and not by default?

The Right Questions

Self coaching and knowing the right questions to answer is the secret to a life by design.

In today’s hectic society, you may feel that you’d like more control over your life. Let’s face it, most people do. Answering the right questions will help you feel more in charge and it will assist you to make more informed decisions and inspiring choices about your future.

This quick-start, self coaching question audit is for you if you want to:

• Take more control of your life and make more informed decisions about your future
• Feel more successful, happier, motivated and fulfilled
• Have more time to do the things you truly love
• Achieve a better work life balance
• Lead a healthier life and potentially live longer
• Change careers and do work that is more satisfying, but don’t know how or what this looks like for you
• Make the most of your retirement and ensure that it is as fulfilling as possible

Enjoy the journey!

So grab yourself a cuppa (maybe even a wine or beer) and a comfy chair and give yourself permission to take some ‘you time’ to play, explore, draft some answers and enjoy where the process takes you!

TIP 1:
If you are challenged to come up with some of the answers to these questions, just start with your first gut feel to get the ball rolling. Remember, the answers are just your first draft and don’t need to be locked in stone right now

TIP 2:
If you feel you don’t know the answer to any of these questions, then just imagine you do know the answer and take your best guess.

NOTE: Although some of these questions may seem to overlap or be repetitive, they are designed that way to draw out common themes for you.

CLARITY

1. What are your top five passions, hobbies or interests that you love doing the most? What common themes come out for you? How could you do more of these in your life in the next 12 months?
a). …………………………………………………………………
b). …………………………………………………………………
c). …………………………………………………………………
d). …………………………………………………………………
e). …………………………………………………………………

2. What would you like to most accomplish in your life?

3. When do you get the most excited, motivated and feel the most alive in life?

4. When in your work do you feel the most engaged, fulfilled and energised? Why? What were you doing?

5. What’s important to you about your work?

6. Who are three people (dead or alive) that you respect the most as role models and exhibit qualities that you admire?
a). ……………………………. Why? ……………………………………………………….
b). ……………………………. Why?………………………………………………………….
c). ……………………………. Why? ……………………………………………………….

7. In your life so far, what are the five accomplishments you are most proud of? Why?
a). ……………………………. Why? ……………………………………………………….
b). ……………………………. Why?……………………………………………………….
c). ……………………………. Why? ……………………………………………………….
d). ……………………………. Why?……………………………………………………….
e). ……………………………. Why? ……………………………………………………….

8. How would your friends describe you? What are the top three things they would say about you?
a). …………………………………………………………………
b). …………………………………………………………………
c). …………………………………………………………………

9. What themes come out of the questions above for you so far?

PURPOSE

10. If money, time and responsibility weren’t issues for you, what would you ideally be doing with your life?

11. Imagine you knew, what would be your ideal dream job or true calling in life?

12. If you had to have one, what would be your own personal definition of success?

13. At the end of your life, how would you most like to be remembered & what do you want people to say about you?

CHALLENGES

14. What are the top five challenges that you are struggling with the most that are likely to hold you back from achieving your ideal future?
a). …………………………………………………………………
b). …………………………………………………………………
c). …………………………………………………………………
d). …………………………………………………………………
e). …………………………………………………………………

15. Where are you most sabotaging yourself from achieving your ideal future?

16. What are the top five things that would need to change or be different for you to better overcome the things most likely to stop you achieving your ideal future?
a). …………………………………………………………………
b). …………………………………………………………………
c). …………………………………………………………………
d). …………………………………………………………………
e). …………………………………………………………………

IMPLEMENTATION

17. If you did nothing else in the next year, what three things would still make it a successful year for you?
a). …………………………………………………………………
b). …………………………………………………………………
c). …………………………………………………………………

18. What would you most regret if you didn’t achieve it in the year ahead?

19. What would you ideally like to be doing in 3-5 years time?

20. Imagine you knew, what would your ideal future look like?

21. If not having enough time, money, confidence, skills, resources & support weren’t obstacles for you, ideally what would you be doing differently in life?

22. What would you do differently now if you knew you were guaranteed success?

23. What do you think may ultimately be getting in the way of your happiness and success?

24. What three things would have to change or be different for you to achieve your ideal life and career vision, so you feel happier and more successful?
a). …………………………………………………………………
b). …………………………………………………………………
c). …………………………………………………………………

25. If you knew someone else in your situation, what three things would you recommend they do?
a). …………………………………………………………………
b). …………………………………………………………………
c). …………………………………………………………………

26. If you don’t change things now for yourself, what will be the cost to your life in the long run?

27. What’s stopping you from taking action NOW?

28. What three things could you put in place to better ensure you stay on track and focused in your quest of achieving your life & work vision – especially when things get busy and other things try to get in the way?
a). …………………………………………………………………
b). …………………………………………………………………
c). …………………………………………………………………

29. What would be the one most important and helpful thing that you could do for yourself right now?

NEXT STEPS

30. On a scale of 1 to 10, how motivated are you to make some key changes? Score ..…../10? What will need to change to turn your motivation into a 9 or 10?

31. What are the most important things for you to do in order to succeed and feel happier?
Next 24 hours:. ………………………………………………………………..
Next week:. ……………………………………………………………………
Next month. ……………………………………………………………………

32. How will you know when you have been successful?

33. When you reach your goal/s how will you feel about yourself?

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