Reflective Questions | Weekly Finds Vol. 21
What did I believe that wasn’t true?
Dear reader,
Here are a few questions to help you reflect upon this year. Feel free to use these in some cool way, and see what these questions spark in you:
What were the gifts of a smaller life that you want to keep with you as things begin to expand again in 2022?
What has been hardest on you emotionally, physically, spiritually?
What and who are you grateful for?
What was one of the moments you were most proud of this year? What does that tell you about what you want to spend your energy/time/money on next year? What is the highest, best use of your time?
What did I believe that wasn’t true?
What was your best failure this year? (i.e. what thing that didn’t go well eventually taught you something critical?)
What piece of art, movie, or book really inspired you this year?
What makes you despair and what gives you hope right now?
BONUS: In what ways did you most surprise yourself this year? Did you develop new skills, new passions, new awareness? Did you recognize new emotions in yourself and process them in new ways?
💙 Weekly Favorites
✏ Quote
To be proved wrong is to learn something, is to grow, and ultimately have the capacity to bloom further. I’d rather grow than be right, wouldn’t you?
🎙 Podcast — OnBeing conversation with Pico lyer and Elizabeth Gilbert. Pico Iyer, esteemed journalist and essayist, and writer Elizabeth Gilbert - known to millions for her book ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ - talk in this podcast about this moment in our history, about individual transformation and stillness, grief and hope.
📕 Poem
When I was young
I served because I thought
The work needed me.
Now I serve because I know
I need the work.
You are not necessary for the work
The work is necessary for you.
Serve because it is your calling.
Serve because it is your purpose.
Serve because it is your privilege to
Serve.
— Dalia Mogahed🌻 End Note
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Have a beautiful week,
Krishna. 💌