Here are 111 questions to help you determine the best path forward when trying to create alignments with your goals.
1 – What do I really want for myself at this point in my life and why do I want it?
2 – What am I willing to struggle for?
3 – What specific risks am I willing to take to be happy?
4 – What do I want badly enough that I am willing to except all the downsides to doing it?
5 – What am I so committed to that no amount of failure could prevent me from continuing to do it or to aim for it?
6 – If I knew that life was not only roses, but also thorns, and I had to choose my thorns, what thorns would I choose… What pain will I choose or say YES to?
7 – Who do I feel I am meant to be in this life?
8 – What do I feel I am meant to do in this life?
9 – Imagining that I died yesterday, what would I regret?
10 – What things would I have done differently?
11 – What things am I glad that I did?
12 – If I got another shot at life and was brought back to life today, what would I now have the courage to do that I didn’t while I was alive?
13 – And what advice would I give to myself sitting right here in this chair today if after my death, I could come back to this moment?
14 – Who do I need to be to achieve my purpose?
15 – What do I not know?
16 – If I had all the money in the world and could never run out of it, what would I do with my time, energy and resources?
17 – What would I still do even if I never made any money doing it?
18 – What If I lost everything yesterday and so I no longer had anything to lose… What would I do if I had nothing to lose?
19 – What is the number one belief in my life that holds me back and prevents me from getting what I want in life?
20 – If I were to watch myself like a fly on a wall, based on what I am seeing relative to my thoughts, words, routines and actions, where can I expect to be in five years?
21 – If I knew that I was going to die one year from today, what would I do with that time?
22 – What gift am I meant to give this world in this life?
23 – What do I want people to say about me behind my back and how do I want to be remembered?
24 – If my six-year-old self could see me today, what would he or she think of me?
25 – What would he or she want me to change?
26 – What makes me forget to eat and sleep?
27 – When do I remember feeling the happiest in my childhood and why?
28 – What would I take a stand for and what would I take a stand against?
29 – What would I risk my life for and why?
30 – What about my life is worth smiling about right now?
31 – What makes me feel unfulfilled and sad in the life I am currently living?
32 – What do I complain about more than anything else?
33 – What do I want my life to be in service of?
34 – If I did one thing for myself, not anyone else for the rest of my life, what would it be?
35 – What have I done in the past that is the most meaningful to me?
36 – What do I want my being to be in service of or to be used as a tool for?
37 – What was the defining moment that changed my life forever?
38 – If a magic Genie gave me one wish to make for myself, what would that wish be and why?
39 – What am I pretending to not know?
40 – What pain from the past am I still holding on to that is holding me back today?
41 – What one sentence will come to define my life?
42 – What do I not want others to know about me?
43 – What am I naturally good /talented at?
44 – What would I leave as it is in my current life and what would I change?
45 – What am I doing in my life just because I “should” not because I truly want to?
45 – What makes me feel great about myself?
46 – What am I most grateful for in my life right now?
47 – What problem do I want to solve?
48 – If my house was burning and I could only save one item (not a person or pet), what would it be and why?
49 – What is my #1 value today and why?
50 – What conflict is not resolved in my life?
51 – What is my hidden agenda and why is it hidden?
52 – What is something I keep telling myself that I will do when I have the time or resources?
53 – If I could change my life somehow with no risk, what would I change?
54 – And knowing that, what risk am I trying to avoid by not changing?
55 – What would I be willing to lose everything for, including the closeness/connection with the people who are the closest to me now (i.e.: friends and family) if I knew it would 100% guarantee me that thing?
56 – What pain am I holding on to as a testament of my love for someone or something?
57 – What point of view currently threatens me and why?
58 – How do I define success for me personally?
59 – And how do I define success for others?
60 – How am I currently neglecting or harming myself?
61 – What expectation do I need to let go of right now?
62 – What am I not taking responsibility for that I know I need to take responsibility for?
63 – What armor do I use to protect my vulnerability?
64 – How do I separate myself?
65 – What do I say I “can’t” to?
66 – Who or what do I blame?
67 – Who or what is my scapegoat?
68 – What would I try if I had no fear?
69 – What would I most like to do for someone else if I had the time, money and resources?
70 – What is the worst thing that I do to myself right now in my life?
71 – What is the best thing that I do for myself right now in my life?
72 – What assumption do I make chronically that is getting in my way?
73 – What do I currently feel has power over me?
74 – And how might I reclaim my power from it?
75 – If I could start my life over, what would I do differently?
76 – Who do I envy and why?
77 – And how could I bring those things that I envy into my own
life experience?
78 – Whose life would I trade places with and why?
79 – What do I love to do for others?
80 – If I’m given one wish, but I can’t use it on myself, what would I wish for and for what/who?
81 – A singer notices a talented vocalist, a car mechanic notices a well-made engine. What do I notice?
82 – When do I feel most alive?
83 – What would I do if I knew I couldn’t fail?
84 – What is my rut?
85 – In what area of healing or progress am I blocked or stuck no matter how hard I try to fix it?
86 – If I had to leave my house all day, every day, where would I go and what would I do?
87 – What do I appreciate about myself?
88 – What am I overcompensating for?
89 – What do I do that doesn’t seem like work, regardless of the difficulty?
90 – What is calling me?
91 – What desires keep tugging at my heart?
92 – How do I make myself bigger and how do I make myself smaller than I am?
93 – What do I refuse to accept about my reality?
94 – What is timeless, ageless and unchanging in me?
95 – What am I avoiding right now and why?
96 – What have I lost?
97 – What am I currently allowing?
98 – What makes me lose my connection to myself and what makes me get that connection back?
99 – What do I love too much to turn into a profession?
100 – Who needs to know that I love them?
101 – And what keeps me from expressing that love to them?
102 – Who am I seeking approval and validation from and why?
103 – What am I currently afraid of?
104 – Whose torch am I carrying and why?
105 – What am I running from and what am I rushing toward and why?
106 – What am I repeating?
107 – If I was someone else, so I was able to see myself from the outside and in a dis-identified way, what advice would I give to myself?
108 – If I were to be brutally honest, what is my priority at this time i n my life and why?
109 – What risk am I taking and what risk am I not taking right now and why?
110 – What am I giving to get?
111 – What do I hear in the silence?
If I heard something it wouldn’t be silence.