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Then we have two questions. The principles I mentioned earlier, help you get into the right frame of mind, and questions help you use that frame of mind to look at situations, your life and its events.
First question: "Why?"
Why are you doing what you are doing now? Why not do something? Why are you choosing what you are choosing? And why are your rules and attitudes about the world exactly as they are now?
This question helps us to explore the reasons why all sorts of activities, objects, people and other things come into our lives. And the reasons why we consider it.
Second question: "Do I really need this?"
Surprisingly, it is probably advertising and marketing professionals who know it best, not us, the buyers of services. Because if they can prove in a text, an advertisement or any other presentation that we need something - we will want it!
After checking the components of our life with the question "why", it is healthy to check it with this one. For example, if you can't find any good reason why you watch TV or subscribe to a magazine of horoscopes and TV programmes... do you really need it?
These two questions are good in that they do not have pre-recorded answers. They are not questions like "would you like this delicious pizza". They are personal appeals to you and the make-up of your life. For example, maybe you don't need a paper newspaper, but I subscribe and read them. We all have different needs and it is healthy to take them into account.
True. There is a third useful question that one could ask oneself, but I prefer to dwell on the first.
This third one: "Could I [...] do something better?"
Where there is a plural, insert a verb. For example, "to do", "to have", etc.
This question was suggested to me by psychologist Rasa Venckutė and it can certainly be useful when trying to replace one set of habits (things) with newer ones. However, in my opinion, this question is perfectly suited to the agreement of the first two questions. By letting go of enough of life's distractions, the right choices emerge and maintain themselves.
If I were you, I would try to remember the first two questions: "Why" and "Do I really need this?" The third will come on its own.
And it will lead to simplicity.
Asking,
Daniel