MAKING MORE MEANING OUT OF LIFE: QUALITY QUESTIONS AND QUOTES TO TUNE YOUR ENGINE

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Spiritual

“What really matters to you?”

  1. What gets you fired up, excited, super energetic, and makes you feel really genuinely good inside?
  2. If you could be famous, what would you want to be famous for? What would you like people to say about you
  3. when they are at your funeral as they talk about your life?
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony." - Mahatma Gandhi

Mental

“Where do you want to be stimulated, know more, and do it better?”

  1. What do you like learning about?
  2. What would you like to be valued, respected, and looked up to for, by other people?
  3. When do you totally phase out what’s happening around you because you are so into doing something? What is that activity?

"The goal of life is living in agreement with nature." - Zeno

Emotional

“Do you react to your feelings without thinking?

  1. Do you feel in control of your emotions (eg. anger, envy, excitement, sadness)?
  2. Do you hear the ‘signals’ you get from how you feel and use that to help guide you?
  3. What activity do you do to get things out of your system? Who can you talk to without feeling like you need to ‘filter’ what you say?


"Emotions need ventilation, like air, they need to keep fresh and move regularly to be healthy." 

Physical

“Does your body keep up with your mind and heart?”

  1. Do you feel strong flexible and energetic?
  2.  When does your body feel good? Doing what, or at what time of day?
  3. What do you picture/imagine/visualise yourself looking like or doing with your body? (you might look at a fence and fantasise about leaping over it, or see yourself in a shop window looking a particular way – maybe strong and lean)


"Build your house, one brick at a time. By building a foundation for the day, you will become more on track with your house's framework."

Relational

“Do you feel confident and comfortable when interacting with people?”

  1. When you are confident, what does that look like? What are you doing, saying?
  2. Do you feel like you know what you are prepared to do with anyone or anything, and what you are not prepared to do (boundaries)? E.g. What you like, and don’t like. What you will accept, and won’t.
  3. Do you make your boundaries clear with people, and growl a little (but not bite) if they cross the line with you?


"Seeing within changes one's outer vision." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

Sexual

“Are you comfortable in the skin you’re in?”

  1. What conditioning do you have in your life that would be good to let go?
  2. What ‘wounds’ or ‘situations’ are recurring in your life, that you would rather not have?
  3. What makes you feel good about who you are?


"I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context." - Tahar Ben Jelloun

Social

“Do you feel connected and a part of a community, even if it’s a small one?”

  1. Do you feel like people get you, and that you get (understand) people?
  2. Do you feel comfortable to be yourself around other people?
  3. How comfortable are you chatting with someone you haven’t met before?

"Interdependence is and ought to be as much as the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being." - Mahatma Gandhi

Recreational

“Do you know when you need to plug-in and recharge?”

  1. What do you like to do for fun or to ‘chil-ax’?
  2.  Who do you like to relax with? What locations are relaxing to you?
  3. Do you regularly take time out to chill out, and get away from everyone/everything?


"If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got." - Lee Lacocca

Vocational

“Are you doing what you love? And loving what you do?”

  1. What would you do if money weren’t a problem?
  2. What is your absolute favourite thing to do? Can you imagine getting paid for it?
  3. How does what you do for work add value to people’s lives?


"Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any." - Danielle Fotopoulos

Financial

“Do you feel in control of your money, or does your money control you?”

  1. Do you have enough money for the basics?
  2. Where does your money go?
  3. Do you have more of the fortnight left at the end of your money Or more money left at the end of your fortnight?

"View money and things not as something you create to fill a lack, but as tools to help you more fully express yourself  and realise your potential." - Sanaya Roman & Duane Packer