Who are you and where are you going?!
What’s important to you? What makes you happy?
Here are the 10 BEST questions to do so!!
Question to know yourself better! 10 of them!
1. What do you enjoy doing when no one is watching? What activity makes you feel better?
Think about this for a minute!
Use the notes app on your phone or a simple piece of paper to keep track of your answers and your self-discovery journey.
2. What is the quiet voice inside you trying to tell you, that you keep ignoring?
It’s usually honest, simple, and clear! 🙂
Take a moment to listen to it fully and let it deepen your sense of self.
3. What are your best accomplishments in life?
When you look back, what moments make you feel proud?
Ask yourself why you succeeded and what strengths helped you get there!
This is where your unique skills and talents shine.
4. Where are you now?
Start by looking honestly at where you stand today!
Draw your timeline and “unzoom” to see your life from the outside.
Your past doesn’t define you, but your response to it shapes your now! 🙂
5. If there were no fear or failure, what would your life look like?
Close your eyes and imagine it!
Your brain doesn’t know time!!
Feel the emotions of that future moment like it’s real.
6. If you had $50 million, what would you do?
Money isn’t the goal, it’s the feeling behind it!
Ask yourself what that amount would give you and why it matters! 🙂
Freedom, time, joy… what’s the real desire hiding underneath?
7. Who do you admire? Who inspires you and why?
It can be anyone, famous or not!
Notice the qualities that speak to you.
They reveal what matters deeply to you and help clarify your long-term goals.
8. If you could meet yourself as a stranger, what would stand out to you?
Imagine seeing yourself for the first time.
What energy would you feel?
What would you honestly think?
9. What are your core values?
Your values answer what you stand for and what you’ll never compromise! 🙂
They make you feel alive when you live by them.
Clarifying them brings clarity to every boundary you set.
10. What part of yourself have you been neglecting that actually needs your attention?
Maybe it’s a dream, a need, a feeling, or a forgotten passion!
Look at it gently, without judgment.
This prompt can spark powerful journaling, boost your self-knowledge, and support your mental health over time! 🙂
Loss of identity?
Feeling a loss of identity often means you’ve stopped pausing for honest self-reflection! 🙂
Asking the right questions to get to know yourself again can spark clarity and bring you back to who you truly are!!
Get to know, this help you know yourself better!
When you take the time to get to know yourself, you build real self-awareness!
This deepens your sense of identity and helps you feel more grounded in who you are!
More questions to help you know yourself better!
What makes you feel most alive, and when was the last time you felt that way?
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If no one’s opinion mattered, what would you choose for yourself right now?
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What emotions do you avoid the most, and why?
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What kind of person do you want to become in the next five years?
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What situations make you lose track of time completely?
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What parts of yourself are you still learning to accept?
Your true self and emotions
Also, I’m passionate about the topic of emotions.
Everything we do, we are seeking to feel positive emotions, I’m 100% convinced of this.
And so, we want to feel positive emotions but we may also feel negative emotions sometimes.. And people may feel negative emotions but they don’t know why!
They need to know in what situations they are happy so they can create more of these situations and…. Create more happiness for themselves! 🙂
Being your true self = way to happiness
Also, people don’t know what decisions to take, what to do with their life, and if you don’t know yourself, then you don’t know how and what makes you truly happy!
So discovering the real you is step number 1 towards becoming happy!
Because you will know what creates positive emotion for you!! How can you make the sun comes through the window if you’re not sure how to open it? (Funny comparison… I know!) 🙂
And there’s nothing more fulfilling than feeling happy because of being who you truly are!
What is the true self in psychology today?
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.
And he’s talking a lot about what he called the Individuation process. What is it?
Jungian analyst Anthony Stevens writes:
Individuation is the process, simple or complex as the case may be, by which every living organism becomes what it was destined to become from the beginning.
The purpose of this individuation process is to increase the individual’s consciousness.
So as you can see, it’s the process to discover what you have and what you are really on the inside.
Through the process, you’re discovering the YOU that is unconscious and you’re bringing it out into consciousness.
And it’s really logic actually: in other words, you first need to be aware of what’s on the inside (so, to know yourself and to discover yourself), to then bring it out and be your true self all the time.
How can I know my self and be myself all the time?
This is a very fascinating journey that I hope, you’ll enjoy doing!! 🙂
Because life is right here right now. It’s silly not to embrace who you really are!
You’ll just LOVE the feeling and the empowerment of discovering and knowing yourself in the first place and then being 100% your most authentic self every day of your life!
You’ll feel ALIVE live you’ve never felt before!
I looked it up and found many interesting ways to get to know yourself and that it will allow you to be yourself all the time.
I got especially inspired by 2 of them:
- SUCCESS magazine has a great article called 6 Steps to Discover Your True Self.
- mbgmindfuldness has also a great article called 6 Questions to Help You Find Your True Self.
Check them out for another perspective and other great ideas 🙂
The ones presented above are the ones that make the most sense to me… It’s a mix between my experience and ideas from what I’ve seen and read.
To sum up!
Taking time to reflect on yourself is one of the kindest things you can do!
Self-compassion grows when you pause and give yourself honest attention.
Interesting questions open new perspectives and help you understand who you truly are.
A simple list of questions can help you reconnect with what matters most! 🙂
Let these prompts guide you gently toward deeper clarity and self-discovery.
