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Where can I reduce the friction?
Personal
How can I use my sawdust more effectively?
Content
What assets should I create this week?
Business
Do I have a skill set that will be useful 5 years from now?
Business
What problem have you solved this week?
Business
If there was one goal to commit yourself entirely to, what would it be?
Personal
Does this take me toward or away from my goal?
Personal
W
hat is the transformation you provide to your audience?
Audience
What story am I telling my audience?
Audience
What core emotion do I want my audience to feel?
Audience
What core benefit am I delivering to my audience?
Audience
Would IÂ
genuinely
 read this or am I chasing the wrong incentive?
Content
What would you do differently if you increased your timeframe?
Business
Where could you work harder not smarter?
Business
Where am I approaching my business through a lens of scarcity?
Business
What non-creative, repetitive tasks are taking up your time (and how can you remove them)?
Business
If you had no fear, what steps would you take differently now?
Business
What is my business optimizing for?
Business
What area of my business is less than excellent right now? What steps can I take to improve it?
Business
What would my favorite entrepreneur(s) tell me to do next?
Business
What would my favorite entrepreneur(s) tell me I’m doing wrong?
Business
If I decided to reinvest my earnings, where are the best leverage points?
Business
What can I do to be different from my compteition?
Business
What is my competition doing that I can do better?
Business
What is my competition not doing and why?
Business
Over the past 2 years, what decisions led to the best results? Can I repeat them?
Business
Over the past 2 years, what decisions led to the worst results? Can I avoid them?
Business
If I could only get paid AFTER I got results... what would I be doing and who would I be doing it for/with?
Business
If I could only learn from 3 books for the rest of my life, what would they be and why?
Personal
What are the opportunity costs behind X decision?
Personal
What are the second and third order consequences of this decision?
Personal
How much time do I spend thinking & learning each day? How can I create more of it?
Personal
What makes me feel anxious? How can I do less of it?
Personal
What are my 5 core values?
Personal
What is my 1 year, 2 year, and 25 year vision?
Personal
If I had all the money in the world, what would I do with my life?
Personal
What gives me the most energy? And how can I do more of it?
Personal
What drains me? And how can I do less of it?
Personal
What actions do I do repeatedly that doesn’t align with the person I want to become?
Personal
How would I like to be spoken about at my funeral?
Personal
How can I complete my 2 year goal in the next 3 months?
Personal
What friendship have I let die due to being “too busy”, and how can I get it back?
Personal
How would my daily schedule change if I did a little more of what I'm great at and a little less of what I'm not great at?
Personal
If you could spend 30 minutes today creating whatever you want, what would you create?
Personal
What has been the best hour of my week? How can I make it easier to have more hours like that?
Personal
What can I do today to improve by 1%?
Personal
Are the results I am expecting aligned with the habits I am following each day?
Personal
How can I make situations more magical for those around me?
Personal
When was a time in the past you successfully adapted and made a change? What is a change you would benefit from making right now?
Personal
What can you do in the next 30 days to build momentum and finish the year on a high note?
Personal
How do I become so good I can’t be ignored?
Business
How can I use the negative experiences in my life to drive me? What fuel can I draw from my failures? What lessons can I take from my grief? What insights can I extract from my embarrassments?
Personal
The question is not, "Will I succeed?" but rather, "What should I attempt?”
Personal
What’s something good to "go a little overboard" on? What's something you could benefit from caring less about?
Personal
What’s true about my life today that would make my 18-year-old self disappointed?
Personal
How can I find the synthesis between education and entertainment?
Content
Are you being too passive or too aggressive right now?
Personal
Is taking things so seriously improving my performance? How can today feel like play?
Personal
What will happen if I don't do this?
Personal
What career would you realistically pursue if you wanted the most money? What career would you realistically pursue if you wanted the biggest impact? What career would you realistically pursue if you wanted to have the most fun? What career offers the best mix?
Personal
When was the last time you felt a sense of wonder and awe? What can that experience teach you about how to spend your time?
Personal
What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Content
What’s my favorite way to fail? What am I willing to struggle for?
Personal
How can I make this process more enjoyable?
Personal
What am I saying no to by saying yes to this opportunity?
Personal
What do you want? What's the price? Are you willing to pay that price?
Personal
Where am I hunting field mice instead of antelope?
Business
What do you believe stands between you and complete happiness?
Personal
If you could write a note to your younger self of 10 years ago, what topics would you focus on?
Personal
What does a perfect day look like to you?
Personal
What’s something you thought you’d grow out of but haven’t?
Personal
What’s something you’re self-conscious about and how does that affect your life?
Personal
What’s something you’d like to do well, but never have been able to?
Personal
Are you willing to see how the opposite of your story might be just as true?
Personal
What do you love about yourself that has nothing to do with your money or success?
Personal
What’s something controversial today that you don’t think will be tomorrow?
Business
What have you been wrong about lately?
Personal
What are you optimizing your life for at the moment?
Personal
What are you good/bad at saying 'no' to?
Personal
What is no one else making?
Content
What aesthetic is no one capturing?
Content
What small details are up and coming?
Content
What would you be most excited to share?
Content
What are you seeing that no one else is seeing?
Content
What am I actually trying to achieve?
Personal
Does the amount of attention I’m giving this match its true importance?
Personal
Can my current habits carry me to my desired future?
Personal
How can I create an environment that will naturally bring about my desired change?
Personal
What game am I playing? Is it worth the prize?
Personal
How do I want to spend my days?
Personal
What is the work that keeps working for me after I stop working?
Business
What can I do today that will make life easier ten years from now?
Personal
Where am I taking shortcuts that may hurt me in the future?
Personal
How can I 10x the speed of my decisions?
Personal
How can I better listen to the wisdom of my body and emotions?
Personal
Where am I copying others that I don’t want to be or shouldn’t be?
Personal
For the things I want to get better at, have I been deliberately practicing or just going through the motions?
Personal
Am I making space for stillness, silence, and solitude?
Personal
What am I putting off? What would happen if I just did it now?
Personal
Am I sticking to the plan or am I letting life get in the way?
Personal
What’s the real goal here? Is there a better way to approach it?
Personal
Who do I need to connect with to gain access to the opportunities I want?
Personal
What if I did the opposite for 48 hours?
Personal
If I could only work 2 hours per week on my business, what would I do?
Business
Am I doing things just because everyone else is or because it’s the right for me?
Business
What if I created my own real-world personal MBA?
Personal
What might I put in place to allow me to go off the grid for 4 to 8 weeks, with no phone or email?
Business
What would this look like if it were easy?
Business
What challenge, personally or professionally, are you facing that if I helped you, could change your life?
Conversation
"If you accomplished your biggest goal, would it change
your world
or
the world
?"
Business
A chef invents recipes, puts new things together & creates new ideas. A cook follows recipes and does things that have been done before. Are you a cook or a chef?
Content
If you were to die tomorrow, what would be incomplete in your life?
Personal
Who’s playing chess when everyone else is playing checkers?
Business