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What Do I Actually Want?

A seven-day folding sheet: one question each morning, and yesterday's answer folded out of sight before you write today's.

5 minutes a day, for 7 daysCompanion to The Most Important ConversationPRESENCESELF LEADERSHIP
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How to use this sheet
  1. Each morning, before you read anything you wrote before, fold the previous day's strip back along its dashed line so you cannot see it.
  2. Answer one question in a few lines: what do I actually want?
  3. Do not reuse yesterday's answer. Let it get more precise each time you ask it.
  4. At the end of the week, unfold everything and read how your answer moved.
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Day 1

What do I actually want?

Day 2

What do I actually want?

Day 3

What do I actually want?

Day 4

What do I actually want?

Day 5

What do I actually want?

Day 6

What do I actually want?

Day 7

What do I actually want?

On the page, close yesterday's strip before you open today's: same rule as folding the paper.

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Source Original exercise compiled by Mat Dufour from personal reflection prompts on legacy, mortality, and long-range thinking.