Self-Awareness Q&A

Reflection & Journaling Tools

Four questions that map the distance between who you are and who you want to be.

Self-Awareness Q&A

These four questions work together. The first two point toward your best self - when you're at your peak, and who you want to be today. The second two point toward what pulls you off course - the situations that reliably make you feel bad, and the activities that make you lose track of time.

Most people answer the positive questions quickly and stay surface-level on the harder ones. The question about situations that make you feel terrible is the one that usually carries the most information. If there's a pattern - and there almost always is - that pattern shows up across more than one area of your life.

The "lose track of time" question is less about identifying hobbies and more about finding the conditions under which you're most capable. Those conditions are worth recreating deliberately.

Write more than you think you need to. The first answers are usually the expected ones. The more useful material tends to emerge after the obvious response is already on the page.

How to Use This Worksheet

  1. Answer each question in the order it appears. Don't skip ahead to the easier ones.
  2. For question 3 (situations that make you feel terrible), write at least three distinct situations. Then look for what they share - the pattern is more revealing than any single example.
  3. For question 4 (losing track of time), resist listing leisure activities. Focus on tasks, problems, or interactions that pull your full attention - regardless of whether they're enjoyable in a conventional sense.
  4. After completing all four, read your answers as a set. Notice what a coach or trusted colleague would observe about the gap between your best-self description and your pattern-of-bad-feelings description.
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When am I at my best?

What kind of person do I want to be today?

What situations make me feel terrible? Is there a pattern?

What activities make me lose track of time?

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