Inspirational Questions

I was looking through and organizing a bunch of papers and going through my desk drawer and I came across a few things. The one thing that is why I am writing this post is a high school graduation present that I got from one of my teachers. It is a little booklet called "One Last Assignment," and it was made by my teacher. She is pretty inspirational herself. I am so glad that I got to be her student and kind of wish that I would have paid more attention to her and all of my teachers in High School.

This booklet is sort of filled with inspirational questions. And inspiration is kind of an amazing thing to have in life. It comes and goes as it pleases and as you are aware of it. When you are aware of your surroundings it comes more often but when you are not it sort of just disappears until it gets your attention again. Anyway, I am going to list all of the questions in this post and then maybe, just maybe, continue to write and semi-answer the questions in future posts. All of them you need to kind of take-in and read over and over again. You need to let some of them soak in for awhile.

Here is her introduction; "As Kobi Yamada says, the quality of life is in direct proportion to the quality of the questions you ask yourself. Questions have tremendous power. Questions are the source of life-enriching change. Your focus creates your reality. Whatever you are experiencing in life is not based on life itself but what you are focusing on.

Yamada does on to say if you want to change your reality, change our focus. If you want to change your focus, change the questions you ask yourself. Questions control your focus. Therefore questions control your own experience in life. Thinking is nothing but the process of asking and answering questions. Instead of asking; "Why me?" "Why am I so unhappy?" "What's wrong with me?" Try asking; "How can I make this work?" "How can I make a difference?" "what am I grateful for?"

Questions should empower you. They are challenges, inspirations, road maps, hints of something better, calls to action and new beginnings. These questions are questions for you to "live into." These questions go beyond the questions I have asked you in my classroom; while you may have graduated you will always be my student and I leave you one last assignment."

Here are the questions in order;

"What do you want from life?"

"Why be afraid of something you want?"

"Do you have the courage it takes to get what you want?"

"In order to find yourself, are you willing to lose yourself?"

"What do you pack to pursue a dream and what do you leave behind?"

"Are you the type of person with whom you would like to spend the rest of your life?"

"Is it true that you have to see it to believe it, or rather, do you have to believe it before you can see it?"

"If you don't have all the things you want, are you grateful for the things you don't have that you didn't want?"

"What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?"

"Do you know how to dream with your eyes open?"

"Your destiny is coming, are you ready?"

"Can you really live life without loving life and can you love life without living life?"

"What is your unrelenting passion?"

"Do you let yesterday use up too much of today?"

"What are the five things you value most in life?"

"Do you treat love as a noun or a verb?"

"What is the one thing you think of that always makes you smile?"

"If what's in your dreams wasn't already inside of you, how could you even dream it?"

"Do you know that you know far more than you know you know?"

"What good has worrying ever done?"

"Have you begun today what you wish to be tomorrow?"

"Are you making new mistakes or the same old ones?"

"What would you think about if you were not taught what to think about?"

"If you are not happy with what you have, how could you be happier with more?"

"Where do you draw the line between possible and impossible?"

"Is not every end a new beginning?"