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10 Practical Answers To 10 Powerful Questions
The other day I received an email from a reader with 10 powerful questions she wanted me to answer. No introduction. No small talk.
Just a list of questions and “Thanks for your time” at the bottom.
Naturally, my first response was, “What?!”
But as I read the questions more carefully, I thought, “I can turn this into an article.” I was truly impressed by the quality of the questions of my reader, Mary.
So I wrote back to thank her for the inspiration. Here are my answers:
Journaling Prompts: 10 Questions to Ask Yourself Every Day
I’m not really a fan of journaling prompts because it’s turned into a gimmick. Every journaling app or article about the topic uses them. And people come up with the weirdest prompts.
It almost seems like they think you need to trick people into writing more. But a person who believes in the power of writing doesn’t need to be seduced to write more.
However, writing doesn’t always happen by itself. Sometimes we need to give ourselves a little push to get started. And that’s how I use journaling prompts.
I stick to prompts that trigger self-reflection—and I stick to a small list of questions that I keep repeating to myself. That’s the secret of journaling. It’s useless to journal once or twice a year. The purpose of journaling is to track your progress over a period.
Four Books That Will Turn You Into A Practical Thinker
Life is complicated. And I find it fascinating that people tend to make it even more complicated by not thinking practically.
One of the things that we never think about is the way we think. We waste a lot of time trying to solve problems that are not even problems.
Have you ever considered that?
For instance, one of the questions that I get asked often is: “I don’t know how to distribute my time. There are a lot of things I want to do in life. What’s the best way to do everything?”
I think: Why do you even want to do everything? By wanting that, you’re fabricating a problem.
From a practical point of view, you can only do a few things with your time, and that also means you can only do a few things in a lifetime.
The basics of becoming wise
I recently shared an article on the basics of building wealth. A list of fundamentals to come back to when you’re starting out or when you feel stuck.
This is the companion piece. Because as Aristotle said:
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
And you can’t truly know yourself if you’re always chasing external things. Wealth without wisdom is just money. This list is about the other side of the equation.
Wisdom is harder to define than wealth. But you know it when you see it in someone.
They’re calm when others panic. They ask better questions. They don’t chase things that don’t matter. They know who they are.
That’s what this list is about. Not philosophy for its own sake. The practical habits and shifts that actually make you wiser over time.