3 Deep Questions for a Better Life

Your best life is hidden in the questions you are not asking. More often than not, we desperately look for answers to our problems and issues in life.

Not many people ponder over some of life’s most important questions. Good questions can help you design a better trajectory for life.

“The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions,” John Simone once said.

What do I want? What am I doing? How am I feeling? Why am I doing this? Is this good enough for me? What’s more important to me: health, happiness, family, or career success?

What are your values? What do you want your legacy to be?

There are many tough life questions to ask yourself, but if you answer them honestly, there will be one less thing on your mind. It pays to make time for introspection every couple of months.

Lewis Carroll is right, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

A better life isn’t all about the big moments. It’s also about the little moments, like how you spend your mornings, what you do with your time outside work are just as important.

To better understand the direction of your life, make time for life reflections and ponder over what you really want and, most importantly, what makes life worth living.

What are the most important things to me in life?

“Life is as simple as these three questions: What do I want? Why do I want it? And, how will I achieve it?” — Shannon L. Alder

What do you want out of life? What do you care about most?

How would you spend your life if money was no object?

The answer is a clue to what you should make time for in life. They are the key to your happiness. You may not have time for what you really want in life, but you can schedule time outside work to do more of them with your loved ones.

You could even start a “money is no object” exercise to plan a clear path for your life. List all the things you enjoy doing and why you haven’t been able to do them. You can then list a few proactive actions you can take to do more of them without disrupting your current schedule.

Am I a better version of myself today than I was a year ago?

“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.” — Annie Dillard

Time is finite. Life is short. How you spend your time is how you are spending your life. How did you spend your time last year, and how are you spending your time today? Did you achieve all your goals last year?

Did you spend enough time improving the most critical areas of your life last year: health, wealth, happiness and mind.

Are you a better version of yourself today than you were in the past year? For every vital area of your life, identify at least one vital habit you can adopt to improve it this year.

For good health, you can start an exercise routine once a week.

Read a few pages of your favourite personal growth book before you sleep to become wiser. Automate your investment decisions: monthly payments into a good index fund for your future to build wealth.

And finally, add meaningful activities or events outside work into your schedule to improve your mood and happiness. What activities make you come alive? Do more of them.

Am I on the right career path?

“The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome.” — William Arthur Ward

What you do for work occupies a more significant percentage of your time. In fact, we spend a lot of our life working. You have to get it right if it’s not getting you what you want in life.

Does your work allow you to make time for your family, self-learning or self-care? How satisfied are you at work?

Are you learning anything new at work? Have you grown as a person?

Have you accumulated more skills at work over the years? Have you personally taken responsibility for your skills? There’s more you can do to become indispensable in the future.

Invest in skills you care about.

Take career initiatives to put yourself out there. Design work satisfaction into what you do for a living if your employer can’t guarantee it?

Do things or take action that makes you feel like you are moving forward or levelling up. When work is better, or you feel good about what you do, it has a good impact on other areas of your life.

If you want a new direction in your career, define the actions you need to take to get to where you want.

A better life starts with a life assessment. These three questions can change everything. They can create a new path for your life.

They can also help you think clearly about where you are headed in life. Get a life Journal or a simple notebook and answer them honestly. Don’t hold back.

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This post was previously published on MEDIUM.COM.

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