Wednesday, December 30, 2009

New Years Questions to Consider

Alexandra Stoddard calls it "puttering." She says every woman should make time to putter around the house, completing chores at a liesurely pace. This includes organizing a drawer or fluffing a pillow... whatever you find to do. I usually don't have time to putter, but this week has been full of puttering, cleaning, meandering, and moving slowly around our house.

It sure has been nice.

Even now, Clay and I started reading, but he fell asleep on the couch. It's a lazy vacation week and we have time for it, so why not?

Fortunately, on lazy days like this one, Clay and I have time to talk about ideas that are normally too idealistic for everyday hustle and bustle. I stumbled across a set of questions on Charrise's Blog, and we asked one another these questions. It was very insightful, so I thought I'd share them. Feel free to use them with your spouse or friend, or just journal your answers for personal reflection.


Remember to answer without editing.
Say or write the first thing that pops into your mind.

1. If you were to FULLY live your life, what is the first change you would make?

2. What do you want MORE of in your life?


3. What do you want LESS of in your life?


4. What are three things you are doing that don't serve or support you?


5. What would you try if you knew you could not fail?


6. What is missing that, if provided, would move you into a life you truly love?


7. What is the fear that most often stops you?


8. What are you willing to give up to have what you think you want?


9. What are you tolerating right now that doesn't serve you?


10. What are you pretending not to know?


11. What action are you afraid to take?

2 comments:

  1. I really enjoyed this, Emily!! :) You know me and Mark are all about getting into each others' brain more, so we are going to have to do this...this weekend! :)

    Joy...(silly blog...I'm not anonymous:)

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  2. Emily I love reading your blog! Jeff and I have spent many nights doing your questions and we have grown so much closer to each other - thank you for that! Praying for you and hope you and Clay are doing well, 2010 is going to be amazing!

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