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Question Cards


One of the most popular part of my podcast series is when I ask guests to pick questions from a deck of cards. I thought you might like to ask yourself a few of them.

(By the way, if you like these questions, they are available in note book too…)

  • Are you doing what you love?
  • Are you sacrificing your present happiness for the sake of a happier future, or the other way round?
  • Ask ME a hard question.
  • Can you share an example of trying to find a balance between contentment and self-improvement?
  • Can you share an example of what the word ‘Home’ means to you?
  • Did anyone ever warn you against being adventurous? How did it feel? How does it feel now?
  • Do you NEED to earn money or do you WANT to earn money?
  • Do you think you will manage to be the person you want to be?
  • Do you want to live more adventurously? If so, why?
  • Do you wish you had more freedom?
  • How could you be happier?
  • How would your life be different if you were a millionaire?
  • If you asked your childhood self who you thought you would be now, would you measure up? What 3 things would your younger self be proud of?
  • If you could live life over, what would you do differently?
  • If you could magically change one thing in your life, what would it be?
  • If you could only work 2 hours per week on your business, what would you do?
  • If you could pause everything and spend a year doing whatever you wanted, what would you do?
  • If you had one extra hour, every day, all to yourself, how would you spend it?
  • In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour or habit has most improved your life?
  • On a scale of 1 to 10, how weird are you?
  • Should I choose security or what makes my heart sing? Tell me about a time of joy or of uncertainty.
  • Stick or Twist. In general, my life is comfortable and happy. So should I risk a new challenge and make big changes?
  • Tell me about making the most out of life.
  • Tell me about the last time you climbed a tree or swam in a river or watched the sun set from a hilltop.
  • Tell me about trying to live a full, adventurous life and still also fulfil your responsibilities.
  • Tell me how you find a balance between work, play, money and family.
  • Tell me the story of something you regret.
  • What advice can you give me so that I look back on my life with satisfaction rather than regrets?
  • What advice would you offer to someone who has the same big barriers that are in your head and stop you getting on with things?
  • What are you doing at times you feel that you are being a good parent / partner / spouse / sibling / friend?
  • What are you proud of?
  • What are you willing to sacrifice for ambition?
  • What book should I read to make myself more wild, bold, and curious?
  • What did you think that being aged X was going to be like? What is it actually like?
  • What do you want to be when you grow up?
  • What does ‘living adventurously’ mean to you? Has that definition changed with time? What did it mean to you as a child?
  • What is a good decision you have made in life? What can that teach me about making decisions?
  • What is an absurd thing that you love?
  • What is Enough?
  • What is stopping you from living more adventurously?
  • What is the biggest question you would like to answer in your own life?
  • What is the Question that you are afraid to ask?
  • What is the right balance between being selfish vs selfless?
  • What is your favourite failure in life? Why was it important?
  • What purchase of £100 or less has most positively impacted your life recently?
  • What small thing do you do regularly which greatly improves your life?
  • What story would you put on the front page of the newspaper?
  • What three things do you need to do to live a life of purpose?
  • What were the two happiest periods of your life?
  • What won’t you be able to do in 10 years’ time that you can do now?
  • What would a life spent living adventurously look like to you?
  • What would the 80-year-old version of yourself advise you to do?
  • What would you say to someone who told you that your life was becoming less adventurous.
  • What’s holding you back? Why haven’t you already begun?
  • Who do you want to remember you (and how) when you are dead?
  • Who was the most adventurous grown-up you knew when you were a child?
  • Why do you not act when you know what to do?
  • Within reason we can do anything. But we cannot do everything. How do you choose how to spend your energy and time?

I hope that you will listen and subscribe to my podcast, Living Adventurously.

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