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8 Thought Provoking Questions To Power Your New Year
Get your pen and paper ready
I don’t love resolutions, but I find the act of reflecting helps bring a north star for the year into focus. Let your hopes and dreams percolate for a bit with the help of the right questions, and you never know what kind of motivation will be sparked in unexpected ways.
If you answer some of the questions below in a slow, thoughtful way, you might be surprised at how much more interesting your goals for the year become vs a typical bland resolution.
Typing into a document is perfectly fine, but for this kind of exercise, you’ll never regret using pen and paper. It will slow you down in the best kind of way.
If you woke up tomorrow with enough money to live your life however you wanted forever (say, 20+ million dollars), how would you spend your days?
Most people would say travel or taking care of various financial stress. Let’s say you traveled for a full year, then caught up on everything (books, games, movies, etc). What would things look like then? Would you start a business? What would you try to give back to the world? Who would you become? Maybe you would even stay working at the exact job you’re in now…