When was the last time you took inventory?

Take Inventory

Deciding to take inventory of your wants, dreams, successes and failures will help you to pinpoint exactly where the problem areas are in your life. It can also help you to construct your why. Below I have listed five questions, which are to be the beginning of this introspective look at what you are feeling about your life. Read each question, take a moment to think on each one and then write down anything that comes to mind. Start with the actual answers to the questions and then move on to the changes that you want to make. Feel free with your writing and jot down anything else that comes to mind, especially if your thoughts are bringing up more questions.

• Have I permitted the habit of procrastination to decrease my efficiency, and if so, to what extent?

• Have I improved my personality, and if so, in what ways?

• Have I been guilty of any conduct not approved of by my conscience?

• Have I been unfair to anyone, and if so, in what way?

• Am I in the right vocation?

If these questions inspire more questions, answer them as well. Never confine yourself to a certain set of questions. The more questions that you ask yourself, the better chance you will have at defining exactly what it is that will make you happy.

In work and in life we all have our moments of inconsistency and regularly checking in with ourselves and asking ourselves these sorts of questions can help to bring us back to ramming speed. The hard part is facing the change (Ann Michael's blog Manage to change) that such questions can bring about but it is so worth the effort.

Ever spent time with yourself quietly meditating on these sorts of things? Or have other methods that you use?

Feel free to tell me about them in the comments below.

Tim

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