Monthly Review Smart Questions and Tips

"Change is inevitable, growth is intentional."
-- Glenda Cloud

"Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything."
-- George Lois

"To be prepared is half the victory." -- Miguel De Cervantes

"When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life."
-- Greg Anderson

"To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted."
-- George Kneller

"Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions."
-- Dan Millman

"Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive."
-- Napoleon Hill

"Talk does not cook rice."
-- Chinese proverb

Ideally, take a couple of hours (or at least 15 minutes) each month to look at the bigger picture of your life and ask the Smart Review Questions below.

These questions focus on balance, personal and spiritual development, strategic goals and rejuvenation. Look at the larger perspective of your weeks and month instead of the reactive minutes.

Be open to any little gems floating around your consciousness. Inspiration and intuition often bring powerful new ideas to us very subtly, very quietly. When you become aware of being teased by an idea, capture it and follow it!

When we are willing to step from the known to the unknown, we learn more about ourselves and about life. We expand our horizons. Our fears are all that holds us back. Move into new territory regularly and life becomes rich.

You will only achieve success and fulfillment if you make the effort to choose what you want and then move forward to get it. If you want something, you have to set the wheels in motion. No one but you can achieve your goals.

Take a minute right now and mark in your calendar the same day every month to do this important review.

TIP - Create 12 equal sized boxes on one page in your journal and write very short answers for each question. On the following months, keep adding your answers to the same boxes.

• What was your peak experience or accomplishment this last month? Your main challenge?
• Make a list of your fears. What fears are you ready to work through?
• What do you want less of and more of to balance your life?
• What bad habits, limited thinking and dislikes are you inspired to shift?
• What situations have you learned most from? What do you want to learn more about?
• What ideas, ideals and dreams merit more support?
• What needs (versus desires) and higher aspirations are teasing you for attention?
• How can you provide for total relaxation, fun and rejuvenation in the next month?
• What areas of your finances need more attention? How can you increase your overall abundance?
• What is not working that you need to let go of or restructure or surrender to?
• What bigger picture strategic goals need clarification and more planning?
• What are your critical miles - your most important medium to long-term goals?