Reflections
This past weekend, I planned a little staycation to celebrate my wife’s upcoming milestone birthday. I wanted to make it special.
As part of it, I gave her some reflection questions that encouraged her to look back on her life and imagine the future ahead.
I would share the same questions with you so that you might do your own reflections.
- What is a memory you have of something you do, that you have always done, that is central to your life philosophy?
- What are three words you would use to describe your immutable traits? Who are you that you have always been?
- What have you been running from and what are you running toward?
- What are 5 messages you want to send to your future self, from your present self, to be reviewed in tough times?
Who are you…really?
It’s interesting to consider how our self-perception aligns—or doesn’t—with how others see us. Neither is more true. One is not right and the other wrong.
Each is just one side of the coin. But what’s really cool, is when those two sides are the same.
For my wife, I had her answer these questions and then later brought friends and family from each era of her life together to answer some of the same questions about her.
It was so cool to see her own stories and reflections echoed through the stories and reflections of others.
I believe living should be a deliberate act. We needn’t settle for just existing, but can continually choose, reflect, and act with intention.
When we stop to reflect like this, we have the opportunity to interrupt ourselves should we find ourselves going through the motions or living, by default.
Try these questions on.
Perhaps the reflection leads to one small change.
You never know how one small change can change everything.
