When was the last time you checked in with yourself?

• What do you really, really want?
• Why do you want that?
• What will be different when you have that?
• How will you feel when you have that?
• What kind of life do you want to create?
• What are your deal breakers?
• What’s most important about work for you?

These are critical questions. Answer them. Write them in a journal. Discuss them with someone you trust to listen.

Living a life we love – one that is full of those things that matter to us, not to our best friend or our mentor or our partner, but to us – isn’t some crazy pipe dream. Though there sure are days it feels that way. But it requires us to know on a deep level what that actually means to us.