Better luck next time

What was something you tried recently with disappointing results?

Improving your skills (5)

Suppose a genie let you wish for just one skill that you don't have.  What is the one skill that would help the most in moving you towards your dreams? 

Taking stock

How are your plans for the year shaping up?  Do the goals that you set at the beginning of the year still make sense?  Which goals have you already changed?  Which are starting to look iffy?  And which of your goals for the year are still on track?

This week's theme is midyear.

Your health

What are you doing (or specifically planning to do) this year to improve your health?

This week's theme is health.

Year-end inventory

Think of the resolutions or goals that you set for 2011. Which of them did you carry to a successful conclusion? And which of them did you fail to complete?

This week's theme is year-end inventory.

Ideal circumstances

What long-frustrated goal of yours could be achieved if you only had the ideal setting for working towards that goal? What would that ideal setting look like? What are the key differences between that ideal setting and your current circumstance — the specific things that hold you back?

This week's theme is ideal circumstances.

A few thousand minutes

It took us just a few minutes a day to write 1000 blog posts in 1000 days. What worthwhile goal could you accomplish in a few minutes a day, if you were willing to keep at it for 1000 days?

This week's theme is Milestone 1000.

Early ambitions

When you were a young child, just old enough to think about your future, what was one thing you imagined you might do, or be, or have when you grew up?

The wind in their sails

What was one time when you went to some trouble to help out someone else, just because were touched by their sincere desire and effort to reach a particular goal?

This week's theme is desire.

Creativity

What is the most significant or large creative work — for example a book, a symphony, a song, a film — you've ever finished? What's the most significant or large creative work that you didn't finish?

This week's theme is creativity.

Top of the list

What was your biggest goal for this year, and did you accomplish it? If you didn't have a specific goal, what was the biggest thing you accomplished this year?

This week's theme is year's end.

Tell us a story: the extra mile

What was something that you wanted very much, something that inspired you to put in an extraordinary effort or travel a long distance to get it?

After you reached your goal or got the thing you wanted, did it feel like a great triumph, or was it something of a letdown, an anticlimactic conclusion to your quest?

Leap

What is one giant leap — a big change in your life — that you would like to make before the next leap day (February 29, 2012)?

This week's theme is change.

Running low on energy

How often do you find that you are running low on energy and enthusiasm? Do you regularly have difficulty mustering the energy to do the things that you have decided to do?

This week's theme is energy.

Your livelihood

What do you do for a living? How close is it to what you imagined, as a child, you would do when you grew up? How close is it to what you imagined when you were in high school and either choosing a college or preparing to go out into the world and work? How close it is to what you studied for in college?

This week's theme is your livelihood.

Taking stock

Did you set personal goals for this year? Which of your goals did you reach during the first half of the year? Which goals seem within reach for the second half of the year?

Did you make new year's resolutions? Which of them are on track so far?

Do your goals and plans for this year still make sense? What is the most important goal for you to focus on for the rest of the year?

This week's theme is halfway through the year.

When do you want it?

What do you want to happen for you in the next twelve months?
What do you want to happen for you in the next few days?
What do you want right now?

This week's theme is desire.

Destination

Think of a dream in which you are traveling from one place to another, or planning to take a trip. Where are you headed? What is the destination of your dream trip?

Is the trip easy, or do you encounter difficulties and obstacles along the way?

Do you arrive at your destination in your dream, or does the dream end while you are still traveling?

This week's theme is dream places.

Top ten: best possible decade

In your most optimistic frame of mind, what are ten things you would like to see happen in the next ten years?

Top Ten: goals for 2009

New Year's Day isn't the only day when you can make resolutions! Now that we're entering the final third of the year, it's time to get serious (and realistic!) about your goals for this year.

What are ten things that you will make a point of accomplishing, ten goals that you intend to check off before New Year's Eve 2009?