Assess Your Life Every Day With One Basic Question: Did Today Matter?
It’s easy to disconnect and fall into the trap of day-to-day thinking, but if you’re really trying to direct your life in a certain direction, you need to make progress. With a short but sweet question, you can help yourself focus on moving forward.
Of course, in general, every day is important to us. As humans, we value our time and enjoy life for the most part. Nevertheless, we are all familiar with the feeling of those days when it seems that nothing happened. On his blog, Chris Guillebeau writes about the tip he received from writer Gemma Stone . She invites you to ask yourself if today matters in the general scheme of things every day:
… that when you ask yourself this question, chances are you know the answer intuitively. Does today matter? If so, great. Do something like that tomorrow. Can’t remember anything special that mattered? Well, you better change that.
It’s deceivingly simple, but it’s one of the most important things you can ask about. Sometimes it’s hard to get down to the little things and seriously revisit what you’ve done, but it’s easy to ask a simple question. What starts out as a minor request becomes a way to build on what you’ve done. Did you work hard or did you just survive? Have you ever worked on a side project? Do you remember any personal moments of this day? Every day is important to us, but there is a high probability that many of us will still answer “no” in most cases. If you find yourself answering no, do your best to change it to yes tomorrow.
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