How will you measure your life?

I trust you're having a great week!?

For the last several years, I close off the year reading an HBR classic by Clayton Christensen?- how will you measure your life??

It?has had a profound impact on my life and my thinking?(I've put a link to the article below).

Along the same stream, are a set of questions I was sent by a distant mentor and friend, someone?I deeply admire and respect, the questions are simple and revelatory.

I plan on spending some time over the holidays to go through these questions.?I would love for you to join me in the process.

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1. In three words, describe your personality.
2. List five of your most dominant interests.
3. Describe your character, including your virtues, vices, strengths, and weaknesses.
4. List the past four opportunities that opened doors for you. Who facilitated those opportunities?
5. In the coming year, what opportunities would you?like to?have open to you
6. Who are the people whom you most often deal with??List the greatest joy(s) and the greatest challenge(s) in dealing with them.
7. If you have a mentor, describe what you admire about your mentor.?If you do not yet have a mentor, describe what qualities you’d like your mentor to have — qualities that you would like to emulate.
8. List the places where you have lived.
9. What possibilities did each place offer you?
10. List the places where you have traveled to.
11. You can list just the ones that had a clear effect on you or all of them. In each place, what changed in you as a result of your visit?
12. What did visiting each place teach you?

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The next step is to review your answers with a trusted friend or mentor.?

What conclusions about your life’s mission can you draw??

Where have you been in life, and where do you want to go in life?

?Your answers to the twelve questions above should give you a picture of what you can contribute to the world — what you can contribute to your community, to your friends and family, and to your work.?

Look out for the unique life experiences that have shaped you, as well as what future experiences you would like to have.?

Your purpose in life will emerge from reviewing your answers.

I'm rooting for you to have even more success!

Here's that article:?How will you measure your life?

Dhiren