Here it is folks, over 250 questions from New York Times bestselling author, James Clear!

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DATE QUESTION
August 8, 2019 How long will you put off what you are capable of doing just to continue what you are comfortable doing?
August 15, 2019 What are the most likely sources of pain in my life over the next year? How can I prepare for or prevent them?
August 22, 2019 Can my current habits carry me to my desired future?
August 29, 2019 What should you do more of this decade? What should you do less of?
September 5, 2019 Look at each item on your to-do list and ask, “Is this truly necessary?”
September 12, 2019 Do you really need to think more, or is it simply a matter of doing the work?
September 19, 2019 The people who have already walked through the fire can help you do the same. Who are you surrounding yourself with?
September 26, 2019 This week’s question builds on the quote from John Gardner above.

How are you collaborating in your defeat?

Don’t take it the wrong way. This question doesn’t mean your current situation is entirely your fault or even that it is 50/50. But the truth is you bring something into every interaction you will ever experience. (At the very least, you bring your attitude.)

How are you contributing to your own struggle? | | October 3, 2019 | How would the person I wish to be act today? | | October 10, 2019 | What can you remove from your life that would improve it? | | October 17, 2019 | Are things truly not going well … or do I just need some food, water, and a short break? | | October 24, 2019 | How can I prepare carefully, but execute quickly? | | October 31, 2019 | Am I happy with the tradeoffs I am making in my life right now? | | November 7, 2019 | What is the biggest opportunity I could pursue in the next 5 minutes? | | November 14, 2019 | If you were forced to work for just one hour per day, what would you work on during that hour to be most effective? | | November 21, 2019 | What is the most neglected important area in my life right now? | | November 28, 2019 | Are your obligations real or imagined? | | December 5, 2019 | What are you avoiding just because you know the answer is painful? | | December 12, 2019 | Am I climbing the right mountain? | | December 19, 2019 | What do you really wish you had the courage to do?

Follow up: How can you take the first step in the next 5 minutes? | | December 26, 2019 | Over the last 10 years, what has become more important to you? What has become less important? | | January 2, 2020 | Think of the ultimate outcome you are hoping to achieve. Is there a path to accomplishing this where you would encounter less resistance? | | January 9, 2020 | What am I holding on to that I need to let go of this year? | | January 16, 2020 | In what ways are you a difficult person to work with?

What can you learn from that? | | January 23, 2020 | Am I tolerating my flaws or improving them? | | January 30, 2020 | Will this matter in six months? | | February 6, 2020 | What are the minority of my actions that drive the majority of my results? | | February 13, 2020 | Will this cost me time in the future or save me time in the future? | | February 20, 2020 | Whose expectations am I trying to fulfill? My own or those of someone else? | | February 27, 2020 | What would 10-year-old me say? What would 80-year-old me say? | | March 5, 2020 | How would I know if my beliefs are wrong? | | March 12, 2020 | Which projects give me energy? Which projects takes it away?

Which people give me energy? Which people take it away? | | March 19, 2020 | How can I make the most of this? | | March 26, 2020 | Who is your biggest fan? How can you thank them today? | | April 2, 2020 | What is one thing I am looking forward to today? | | April 9, 2020 | Can you sit still, do nothing, and breathe deeply for the next two minutes? | | April 16, 2020 | Am I proud of what I am choosing to do? | | April 23, 2020 | Who do I know that can help me with this? | | April 30, 2020 | A simple question that may help reveal the positive side of the current moment:

What does this make possible? | | May 7, 2020 | What is something that feels productive to you in the moment, but usually ends up wasting time and energy? | | May 14, 2020 | Am I doing this for Present Me or Future Me? | | May 21, 2020 | What do you enjoy refining? (It’s the areas you can’t help yourself from editing and optimizing where you have a long-term advantage.) | | May 28, 2020 | If someone could only see my actions and not hear my words, what would they say are my priorities? | | June 4, 2020 | What is the biggest small thing I could do today? | | June 11, 2020 | Which of my current habits serves me most? Which serves me least? | | June 18, 2020 | What are you preventing yourself from feeling? | | June 25, 2020 | What can you work on today that will continue working for you years from now? | | July 2, 2020 | Am I being good to myself? | | July 9, 2020 | What am I avoiding just because the desired outcome would take longer than I’d like? | | July 16, 2020 | What would some of the alternative routes look like? | | July 23, 2020 | Imagine each day is only 12 hours long. What would you cut out? | | July 30, 2020 | Which areas of my life are in maintenance mode? Which areas are in growth mode? | | August 6, 2020 | Am I being effective or just busy? | | August 13, 2020 | What am I holding on to that I need to let go of? | | August 20, 2020 | What is your personal compounding advantage in your career? | | August 27, 2020 | What is one thing you can accomplish today that would make this day a success? | | September 3, 2020 | What are the 1-2 things that if you get them done today, you’ll go to bed content? | | September 10, 2020 | Is there a better way? Is there a kinder way? | | September 17, 2020 | If you keep living the way you are, what will your life look like in 20 years?

Sometimes we need patience. Sometimes we need action. | | September 24, 2020 | Who brings out your best qualities? Can you take five minutes right now to schedule time with them? | | October 1, 2020 | This week, I’ll steal a question from Richard Hamming’s fabulous talk, You and Your Research.

What are the important problems in your field? And if you’re not working on them, why not? | | October 8, 2020 | What am I reinforcing each day? | | October 15, 2020 | Momentum is a double-edged sword. It can propel you to new heights or keep you locked into previous choices and old habits.

Where do I have healthy momentum right now? Where do I have unhealthy momentum? | | October 22, 2020 | What is the little bit of extra work that has huge upside? | | October 29, 2020 | Who can I collaborate with to make this easier? | | November 5, 2020 | What part of this situation is under my control? | | November 12, 2020 | What is one repeating problem you can automate or eliminate today? | | November 19, 2020 | What would your closest friend tell you to do? | | November 26, 2020 | Some questions to consider before you speak:

Does this need to be said?

Does this need to be said by me?

Does this need to be said by me right now? | | December 3, 2020 | Sometimes you have to pass through the fire. What fire or pain should you seek out in your life over the next year so you can learn its lessons? | | December 10, 2020 | Imagine the most important goal or project you are working on right now. Fast forward six months. Imagine the project has failed.

Why did you fail? | | December 17, 2020 | What is one small thing I could do today that would make a meaningful impact on my future? | | December 24, 2020 | What is best in the short-term? What is best in the long-term? | | December 31, 2020 | What is a mistake you seem to repeat each year? What can you do to prevent it this time? | | January 7, 2021 | If you met someone exactly like yourself …

– same experience – same resources – same problems

… what advice would you give them? | | January 14, 2021 | What is the highest leverage action I can execute on right now? | | January 21, 2021 | Has the most important thing changed? Am I chasing an outdated target? | | January 28, 2021 | What are you working on when time fades away? | | February 4, 2021 | Today’s question comes from the engineer, Richard Hamming:

“If you do not work on important problems, how can you expect to do important work?” | | February 11, 2021 | Does this activity fill me with energy or drain me of energy? | | February 18, 2021 | What do I actually want? | | February 25, 2021 | A question from venture capitalist and executive coach, Jerry Colonna:

“How are you complicit in creating the conditions you say you don’t want?” | | March 4, 2021 | What are my actions moving me closer to? | | March 11, 2021 | What 6-month period of your life was the most energizing and fun?

What can you learn from your answer? | | March 18, 2021 | What could be improved? What could be removed? | | March 25, 2021 | Does the amount of time I’m giving this match its true importance? | | April 1, 2021 | How am I living with the results of other people’s thinking? | | April 8, 2021 | What do I keep coming back to? What is that telling me? | | April 15, 2021 | How can I create an environment that will naturally bring about my desired change? | | April 22, 2021 | If I keep doing what I am about to do today for the next five years, will I end up with more of what I want or less of what I want? | | April 29, 2021 | How have my bad habits become a crutch I lean on? What stories do I need to let go of so I can walk freely? | | May 6, 2021 | An insightful question from Steph Smith:

“How much of what you did today was simply due to inertia?

Never get so busy that you forget to actively design your life.” | | May 13, 2021 | What is a small pleasure that brings me great joy? Can I enjoy it today? | | May 20, 2021 | A question from writer Elizabeth Gilbert:

“What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?” | | May 27, 2021 | Am I working at the right level? Do I need to zoom in or zoom out? | | June 3, 2021 | Do the people around me act the way I wish to act? | | June 10, 2021 | What is one action that would make today a success? | | June 17, 2021 | What is the limiting factor? | | June 24, 2021 | People will tell stories about you at your funeral. What chapter are you writing today? |