Two Key Questions Every Day

I’m a-gonna just get out of Joshua Becker’s way here —

Every day is truly a gift. The fact that we even get to live it is something we should be grateful for. 

A new day arrives every morning with new openings, opportunities, and potential. It also arrives with new challenges and decisions, for sure, but those are also gifts we should be grateful for. 

Each day contains only 1440 minutes. And how we live each of them matters—for ourselves, the people around us, and the world.

So how do we make the most of them? Because at the end of the day, it can never be relived—we are left with only the results of how we lived it. 

One great truth I have realized in my own life is the value of reflection. Living well tomorrow is largely based on the lessons we learned from yesterday. So making the most of our lives will always require us to look back and reflect, evaluate and learn. 

But reflection to prompt your best life doesn’t necessarily need to be time-consuming or overwhelming. In fact, it can boil down to asking two simple questions at the end of the day:

1. Did I live to my fullest potential today?
2. Did I live with the right motives today?

These two specific questions are helpful for a number of reasons: 

1. They can be asked by any person in any circumstance: regardless of your passion… regardless of the job you hold (or don’t hold)… regardless of your season in life… regardless of your circumstances.

2. They allow us to evaluate each day without comparison to others. We don’t measure our day compared to how it aligned with anyone else’s day. We’re asking whether we lived to our fullest potential.

3. They help us stay focused on the right things all day long, not just at the end of the day.