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What is the most authentic choice you have made this year so far?

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When you're making a choice and you change your mind right before committing do you know why you switched or is it just a feeling?

SocialMetacognition

What's a way you've been intentionally brave in your personal life?

SocialConfidence

What is a challenge I'm currently facing that is helping me grow in ways I appreciate?

Self-ReflectionChange

Do we push each other to go after things we wouldn't go after on our own?

SocialConfidence

What boundary do I keep thinking about but haven't acted on yet?

Self-ReflectionBoundaries

Is there something you trust yourself to figure out even when you have no idea where to start?

SocialConfidence

Find a community event near you this month from a cultural group you don't belong to and go.

ActionCultural

List every responsibility you've taken on at work in the past year and mark the ones you actually chose versus the ones that just drifted onto your plate.

ActionWork

How did my caregivers react to my questions about life death and the world and were they open or did they shut me down?

Self-ReflectionChildhood

Next time a work meeting feels like it could've been an email note which part actually needed the whole group there and raise it afterward.

ActionWork

Write down what you'd want your work to look like in three years and name one thing you could start doing differently this month.

ActionWork

Do I feel more or less confident about money decisions when I have an AI to check them against and is that confidence real?

Self-ReflectionMoney

Pick one task at work you've been putting off because it feels too big and break it into three smaller steps you could write on a list.

ActionWork

What's something you've spent money on that felt indulgent at the time but you now think of as one of the better calls you've made?

SocialMoney

Write down one cultural expectation about how you're supposed to feel or behave around work and decide whether it was ever actually yours.

ActionCultural

How much of who I am is shaped by survival versus desire?

Self-ReflectionIdentity

Am I trying to control a situation because of how I feel?

Self-ReflectionEmotions

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