9 Questions
9 Questions to Ask Yourself and Others for 2022
These are questions that have been asked in books, workshops, and spiritual talks.
- What do you know now that you didn’t know a year ago?
Peter, Church of Conscious Harmony
- Taking time to notice, being a father to two wonderful adults has helped me experience love. Being a grandfather has help me understand how the terms love and legacy fit together.
- What attracts and drives me to be an educator? Completing the WHY Institute certification was affirming to who I am. Being a contributor to my own learning and the learning of others.
- Losing my best friend, a year ago on New Year’s Day, has made me more conscious and grateful for the friends I have, and the time spent with them.
- What would you, ten years from now, tell yourself today?
Marshall Goldsmith, podcast
- You will always have something to contribute of the field of education. Keep doing it.
- Be sure to make time for family, friends, health, and integrity.
- Keep learning
- What question, if you had the answer to, would set you free?
Peter Block, The Answer to How is Yes
- Am I willing to give and receive love?
- How do I accelerate my learning and the learning for others?
- Am I willing to take time to “Be Here Now”?
- Where are you getting increasingly more efficient and decreasingly creative?
Reed Hastings, No Rules Rule
- Doing more reading and writing rather than being in the arena initiating and accelerating learning.
- Being more of a minimalist with my needs.
- Goethe said, “the things that matter most should not be at the mercy of things that matter least.
- Where have you had a compelling vision but lacked ruthless execution?
Alan Mulally, American Icon
- Knowledge is important AND insufficient. Be in the arena doing worthwhile work
- “It takes no courage to chronically complain.” Angeles Arrien
- Know ‘WHY’ and not being able to implement ‘WHY NOT’
- Are you a giver, a taker, or a matcher?
Adam Grant, Give and Take
- “Teams depend on givers to share information, volunteer for unpopular tasks, and provide help” Adam Grant
- You can’t give what you don’t have.
- I used to be more of a ‘matcher’ and now I am totally a ‘giver’
- What is something you want to do but haven’t? Why not?
Dan Heath, Insight and Influence Workshop
- Working within a school district to compete with private and alternative schools
- Develop creative leadership professional develop in urban school districts
- Create practical leadership programs in higher education
- What are the next steps that would most support my life’s dream, my life’s calling?
Angeles Arrien, 7 Candles Workshop
- Be part of a team that creates positive cultures for urban and/or high poverty schools
- Teach in higher education to develop great leaders on how to build good school cultures rather than just certification programs
- “Life is change. Growth is Optional. Choose Wisely.” Karen Clark
- Is your self-worth stronger than your internal critic?
Angeles Arrien, 7 Candles Workshop
- Stand up or shut up
- Stop the inner terrorism
- Dream, Do, Enjoy
Those are my answers. What are yours?