20 Questions To Ask Yourself About January

Use the Gift of Self-Reflection to look at your experiences and challenges of January. Ask yourself 20 questions. Use the answers to the 20 questions as guidance on what to do in February.

Do it now for January.

Then do it again for February, when February ends.

Then do it again for March, when March ends.

Then do it again for April, when April ends.

Then do it again for May, when May ends.

Then do it again for June, when June ends.

Then do it again for July, when July ends.

Then do it again for August, when August ends.

Then do it again for September, when September ends.

Then do it again for October, when October ends.

Then do it again for November, when November ends.

Then do it again for December, when December ends.

Use your answers each month as guidance for the next month.

Go back and look at your previous months’ answers as you go along.

When you have finished, you will have a wonderful record of your journey in 2018.

And you can be sure you gave every single month (and what happened in each of those months), your full attention.

Happy Super Bowl weekend!

Here are the 20 questions for when you are ready…

 1.  What are the things that happened to me in January?

2.  What was my response to what happened to me in January?

3.  What did I learn about myself based on my response?

4.  Did something happen to someone I know in January?

5.  Which was worse - what happened to me, or what happened to that other person, or those other people?

6.  Why was it worse?

7.  Did I learn anything from my own experiences in January? What did I learn?

8.  Did I learn anything new in January – which was not connected specifically to an experience? What did I learn?

9.  What are some of the things I achieved in January?

10.  Were any breakthroughs?

11.  Why do I think they are breakthroughs?

12.  What did I do that was different or new in January?

13.  What did I read, watch, or listen to in January?

14.  What did I take away from what I read, watched, or listened to?

15.  What did I apply in my life based on what I read, watched or listened to?

16.  Who did I meet in January?

17.  What did I do with the people I met in January?

18.  What did I learn from the people I met?

19.  Did I approach anything in January in a way which I would like to do different in February?

20.  Last but not least….how can I build on what I achieved in January, and work on what didn’t go so well in January?

I hope these 20 questions will put you on the path to meaningful self-inquiry and well-thought out decisions and actions.  Let me know how it goes.....thanks. 

Acknowledgements:

Thanks for the feedback, (comments, likes, shares) on some of my recent posts. I appreciate the affirmations that I am on the right track from old friends and new, old relatives and new. You keep me going.

NEXT, Thanks to all readers, current and future, for sharing my Journey to Wisdom, Meaning and a Better Life.  Like you, I am trying to find my way through this complex maze we call life, and I am honored to have you share my journey, as I continue to seek the wisdom hidden in plain sight.

FINALLY, A Happy Birthday shout-out: to those with February birthdays. Hope you use your birthday month to make the gift of self reflection work for you. It takes inner work to change your outer circumstances. The 20 questions are designed to help you do that inner work. I am rooting for you.

P.S. A selection of my prior posts is below. You don’t have to read any of them.  Your focus should be on your 20 questions. I hope you get going on them. If you have a partner or friend, you can do the questions with them.  That will make it more interesting, and bring up things you may not have thought of. Just an idea. Happy answeringJ

Friendships

The United States of Friendship – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6,Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, Part 12

Family

Our Cake Boss Family, Family Songs, The Nightdress Brigade, Family Advice I Am Grateful For, The Porki And Bonkers Tradition, No Need for 23 and Me,Letters to Lucas, Flying Lessons

Pets

A Fresh Perspective on Pets, Secrets of The Super Models In Our Family,BowWow, Meoww, Why You Should Not Abandon Your Pet

Nature

Post on Trees, Reprising Joy Kilmer

Hobbies

Cricket, Glorious Cricket, Splendid Post, What!

Managing Your Money

Yoga for Investors, How to Turn Your Girl Scout or Cub Scout Into a Stock Scout, Financial Piece of Mind, Financial Piece of Mind – Part Deux, A Retirement Planning Formula You Won’t Find on Oprah

Simplifying Your Life

You know what Wesabi is, How About Wabi Sabi?  The Simple Life, The Element of Simplicity and Its Hope for Living a More Satisfying Life

Getting Over Your Self-Consciousness

The Element of Release From Inhibition, The Element of Being Less Self-Centered and Its Hope for Seeing Things in The Correct Light, The Element of Getting Out of Our Comfort Zone and Its Hope For Experiencing More of What Life Has to Offer

Learning to Laugh

How To Deal With The Sheldon Coopers in Your Life – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3,Part 4, The Nightdress Brigade, You Aced the SAT, How About the LAT?, How To Cause Atmost Confuzen at the Scripps Spelling Bee, How To Go From Madonna to Lilly to Myrtle in The Course of A Single Evening - And Even Have a Sex Change, A Facebook Face-Off, A Short Stint in Advertising

Learning to Relax

How To Become a Low Maintenance Person, Connected Minds, How To Become The Kind of Person People Want to Work with, How Many Times a Day Do You Visit Ireland? The Art of Carrying Things Lightly

Health

Raising the Bar, 4 Healthy Eating Ideas I Learned from My Friend Julia, The Element of Becoming More Focused and Precise In Our Goals and Its Hope for Achieving Powerful Results

Pursuing A Dream
What’s Next For You? The Element of The First Step and Its Hope for Getting Big Things Started In Our Lives, She Victories

Changing in Good Ways

Maybe Its Time To Become More Receptive, Maybe It’s Time To Live More Purposefully, Maybe It’s Time To Bust Some Myths, Maybe It’s Time to Walk In The Direction Of Your Fears, Maybe It’s Time To Understand What Freedom Is, Maybe It’s Time To Turn the Page, Maybe It’s Time To Rock The World, Maybe It’s Time For Freshness