How to use this sheet
- Do not answer all 25 in one sitting. Two or three sittings, a few days apart, give better answers.
- Write the first true thing, not the best-sounding one.
- When you are done, read everything back and underline what keeps coming back.
- Your mission is in those repetitions, not in any single answer.
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What do I feel are my best qualities?
What good qualities do people who know me well attribute to me?
When I daydream, what do I see myself doing?
Of all my activities, which ones give me deep satisfaction?
What are the character qualities I most admire in other people?
Which person, more than any other, has had a beneficial influence on my life?
Why did that person have such an important influence?
What have been the happiest times in my life?
Why were those times happy?
If I had unlimited time and resources, what would I choose to do?
What are the three or four things I consider most important?
When I think about my work, what activities do I find most valuable?
When I think about my personal life, what activities do I find most valuable?
What could I do to benefit others?
What talents do I have that others ignore?
Even though I have often dismissed these thoughts for various reasons before now, are there things I think I should do? What are they?
What are my physical needs and abilities?
What are the important roles in my life? (For example: husband, father, son, manager, etc.)
In each of these roles, what are the most important goals I want to achieve in each of them?
Of the results I currently obtain in life, which ones do I like?
What paradigms determine these results? That is, what makes me like these things? What are the underlying values?
Of the results I currently obtain in my life, which ones do I dislike?
What paradigms determine these results? That is, what makes me dislike these things? What are the underlying values?
What would I really like to be and do in life?
What are the important principles that underlie my way of being and acting?
Bonus: what will they say at your funeral? What would you like them to say?
Consider separately: family, friends, colleagues, society.