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Advice & More June 2017

Phase Three

The Important Questions to Ask Yourself

By Arnold Bornstein

Do you agree with what George Bernard Shaw reportedly told us: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing?

If you grazed a car parked next to you in a parking lot, would you leave a note on the windshield or just drive off?

Do you agree with what George Bernard Shaw reportedly told us: "We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing?

When you figure out the tip, do you do it on the bill's total before or after taxes?

Do you ever feel that you're bragging too much about you grandchildren or kids?

If you are a Florida snowbird, is there any other sunny location you may prefer to the Sunshine State?

To be tactful, do you sometimes fib instead of telling the whole truth?

Do you find yourself complaining too much?

Do you ask yourself: if you had to do it all over again, then what?

What do you find annoys you the most?

If you exercise, are you really satisfied with the level of your workouts?

Standing in line at a supermarket, do you ask yourself why you picked the wrong line?

What do you find the most and least appealing: TV, movies, cards, reading, chatting, shopping, eating out – or do you like them all?

When you look at the sky and clouds, what thoughts cross your mind?

Do you find yourself too often wasting too much time on relatively unimportant matters?

Does it take too long to make up your mind?

Do you consider yourself lucky or unlucky or neither?

What is your formula for reducing or getting rid of belly fat?

Are you eating healthfully?

What about a scale?

Are you sleeping well?

How often do you get a physical?

Are worry, anxiety and mood under control?

Are you getting your daily to-do's done?

What about procrastinating?

Have you still got goals and dreams?

Besides your immediate family, and loved ones and friends, does real contact still exist with distant relatives – like cousins – and friends from your past and from school?

Have regrets lessened or increased?

Periodically, do you feel exhausted and usually aren't sure why?

How are your ambition and accomplishment levels doing?

Are you looking forward to family get-togethers and vacations?

As I look back on my life, and I think my feelings are shared by many, don't you find that questions periodically arise – in the “should I or shouldn't I” mode, as well as more profound questions?

Bill Watterson said, "Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you've learned, but in the questions you've learned how to ask yourself." Watterson was a highly successful comic strip cartoonist, which illustrates that you don't have to be a philosopher, to be a thinker.  His comic strip, "Calvin and Hobbes," at its height was featured in about 2,400 newspapers. He did it from 1985 to 1995, before retiring.

The questions above aren't meant to embarrass or insult anybody. And your answers are only between you and yourself.  At any rate, I would think that you may find your answers interesting and helpful.

In any event, take good care and enjoy! And may the answers to your problems and whatever in the future be happy and healthy ones!

 

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