Asteeeg! Beyond traditional careers and conventional lifestyle

As said by one of my all time favorite authors Tony Robbins, questions you ask yourself, consciously or subconsciously, determine how you think and live. I sincerely believe this especially after trying for myself one of his exercises to see what the essence of thoughts are. Setting aside philosophy, metaphysics and any rationalizations, after asking yourself “What are thoughts?” you would get caught up in a series of questions and answers until it should hit you that thoughts are simply questions.

And the nature of your brain, like a perfect computer, is to always come up with its own answers almost automatically given enough focus on the questions - no matter if they are good or bad questions in the first place. So thoughts are questions. In so many words other authors of the subject and even Zen masters would probably agree that thoughts (which we have established are questions) give rise to emotions and emotions give rise to decisions and decision to actions which sum up your life.

Questions being so important, here’s a short list of possibly life-changing questions I gathered from a couple of books from Tony Robbins, Shafin De Zane and many others. Most of them you may surely have heard of before but try to suspend judging them as glib or trite self-development mumbo jumbo. Do try to seriously answer them at the right time, when you are relaxed, focused and have blocked a time to really contemplate on them. Oh yeah, right down your answers somewhere safe and private…

1. What will I do if I know it would be impossible to fail?
2. If I had 50 billion dollars, what will I do with my free time? (Assume you will take a year or two for all the expected activities of travelling the world, buying everything you’ve ever wanted, making sure all your family and friends are financially secure, what then? Credit must be given to Shafin de Zane for this from his awesome ebook course “Redefine Your Reality.)
3. How can I do what I do with less work, more fun and could benefit more people in a more affordable way? (I see this is as the most important business/entrepreneurial question. I probably got this from Robert Kiyosaki)
4. What is the proudest moment of my life? What or who do I love in my life right now? (There tons of variations to these questions but guaranteed asking them can get you out of depression or brick wall in a second.)
5. What is the worst case scenario if I pursue what I truly want to do? (While may seem like a negative question, asking this can overcome major fears or hangups. I took this from Tim Ferriss)

Just to have a cool ending to to this short post, here’s the classic quote from Hellen Keller:
“Life either a daring adventure or nothing.”