4 hour work week: great questions to ask

Here are the questions to ask when you are tired to your current situation and looking for an exit plan:
Some are from the book " 4 hour work week", some are my questions inspired by this great book:


*** My thoughts***
- what makes you truly happy?
- Stocktake:

• what are your strengths ? what are you proud of yourself?  (hold on to the urge to deny yourself, there is a whole chapter devoted to it, for now, just FOCUS on the POSTIVE)
• What are your mental assets? 
• What set you apart? 
• What qualities can you hold on to when you are in your darkest moment and confidence hitting rock bottom? 

Promote yourself as if you are in a new job interview, and if your dream is to be your own boss, promote yourself as you were in front of a panel of Venture capital.


* do you know exactly what you want? or at least, have you had a taste of it somehow?
* do you know what bored you to ears? have you done with it yet?
* are you ready to throw is all away?



are you going to dance around with shame, embarrassment, and anger for another six

months, all the while playing an endless loop of reasons why  your plan could never work ?

* Decide EXACTLY your nightmare would be, the worst thing that could possibly
happen as a result of the exit ?

* what simple steps can you take to salvage my remaining
resources and get back on track if all hell struck at once?

* is anything in your worst nightmare fatal?
** from 1 to 10, what are the temporary effect your worst nightmare have on your life?
** now how about your best-case scenario?






*** Questions from the book  *** 


i. How has being "realistic" or "responsible" kept you from the life
you want?
2. How has doing what you "should" resulted in subpar experiences
or regret for not having done something else?
3. Look at what you're currently doing and ask yourself, "What
would happen if I did the opposite of the people around me? What
will I sacrifice if I continue on this track for 5,10, or 20 years?"



Do you really think it will improve or is it wishful thinking and
an excuse for inaction?


Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or
one week ago?

brain vomiting on the page



Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you
did what you are considering. What doubt, fears, and "what-ifs"
pop up as you consider the big changes you can—or need—to
make? Envision them in painstaking detail. Would it be the end of
your life? What would be the permanent impact, if any, on a scale
of i-io? Are these things really permanent? How likely do you
think it is that they would actually happen?

2. What steps could you take to repair the damage or get things back
on the upswing, even if temporarily? Chances are, it's easier than
you imagine. How could you get things back under control?


3. What are the outcomes or benefits, both temporary and permanent,
of more probable scenarios? Now that you've defined the
nightmare, what are the more probable or definite positive
outcomes, whether internal (confidence, self-esteem, etc.) or external?
What would the impact of these more-likely outcomes be
on a scale of 1-10? How likely is it that you could produce at least
a moderately good outcome? Have less intelligent people done
this before and pulled it off?


4. If you were fired from your job today, what would you do to get
things under financial control? Imagine this scenario and run
through questions 1-3 above. If you quit your job to test other
options, how could you later get back on the same career track if
you absolutely had to?


5. What are you putting off out of fear? Usually, what we most fear
doing is what we most need to do. That phone call, that conversation,
whatever the action might be—it is fear of unknown
outcomes that prevents us from doing what we need to do. Define
the worst case, accept it, and do it. I'll repeat something you
might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing
most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of
uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve
to do one thing every day that you fear. I got into this habit by
attempting to contact celebrities and famous businesspeople for
advice.

6. What is it costing you—financially, emotionally, and physically—
to postpone action? Don't only evaluate the potential downside of
action. It is equally important to measure the atrocious cost of
inaction. If you don't pursue those things that excite you, where
will you be in one year, five years, and ten years? How will you
feel having allowed circumstance to impose itself upon you and
having allowed ten more years of your finite life to pass doing
what you know will not fulfill you? If you telescope out 10 years
and know with 100% certainty that it is a path of disappointment
and regret, and if we define risk as "the likelihood of an
irreversible negative outcome," inaction is the greatest risk of all.
7. What are you waiting for? If you cannot answer this without
resorting to the previously rejected concept of good timing, the
answer is simple: You're afraid, just like the rest of the world.
Measure the cost of inaction, realize the unlikelihood and repairability
of most missteps, and develop the most important habit
of those who excel and enjoy doing so: action.