What do I want my life to look like in 50 years?

A couple of months ago I did a dope exercise from a book called How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci by Michael Gelb.  The exercise entails spending an allotted amount of time to document down on paper whatever questions come to your cranium.

ANY question that comes to mind – write it dizzown – whatever it is – no questions asked!  Gelb prefers participants engage in this exercise in ONE sitting – whether it takes a couple of minutes or a couple of days.  For me it took about 45 minutes… (and left me thinking for about 45 days)

When I was done banging out my big bold hundred questions, I decided to take a highlighter and highlight the reoccurring themes that had arisen.  The majority of my questions broke down in these quad-categories:

  1. Meaning / Purpose
  2. Gratitude / Helping
  3. Mastery
  4. Love

Gelb then encourages everyone to examine those 100 questions and specify which ones are their top ten, and then rank ‘em.  Once the top ten are in rank, take some time in quiet contemplation of question numero uno.

So with no further ado, I bring to you, my number one Quality Question in the queue (sounds like a Rakim rap):

What do I want my life to look like in 50 years?

We all know how easy it is to get caught up in the moment, the day, the week, the month, the year…  But honestly, how often are we living in a moment to moment mindset mentally embodying a long term perspective?  In other words – how much does what I’m doing, RIGHT NOW, have an effect on what I want to be doing in decade (or five)?

My answer:  Not too much.

I’m NOT asking you to figure out HOW to acquire your most desired lifestyle – I’m just asking you to allow yourself to spend some time imagining what it may look, feel, smell, sound, and taste like…

Now what do YOU want your life to look like in 50 years?

(Please share below)

PS:  I got this exercise directly from Brian Johnson’s AMAZING philosophersnotes.com and viewed his 10 minute TV episode summary of How to Think like Leonardo da Vinci.

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