Table Of Contents

Foreword; Explanations; Practical Advice; Activity; Authority; Car; Changes; Desired Results; Development; Earth; Eco-friendliness; Family; Fashion; Happiness; Health; Holidays; Home; Intoxicating Substances; Law; Life; Mass Media; Money; Other; People; Possibilities; Postphysical Life; Religions; Safety; Self-awareness; Sobering Questions; Technologies And Devices; Time(s); Truth

Explanations

The abbreviations and words below used in this book have the following meaning:

- Authority - Power; control. It’s one of the topic sections

- FI - For instance

- Holidays - Festive days; celebrations. It’s one of the topic sections

- Postphysical life - Afterlife; existence other than that of a physical body. It’s one of the topic sections

- Remote contact - Communication other than face-to-face physically with another person, carried out over a distance and usually a medium as well, FI telephone

- Travel - General movement of an individual, not only as a tourist. It concerns traffic in the safety section.

Activity

20. Why can(‘t)/must(n’t) I start/resume/end ...? FI an addiction

71. Where, when and/or how do I receive my best ideas? FI what/who inspires them

Authority

1. Who and/or what governs me? FI more than I; most; totally; a power; higher entity; force majeure; fate (especially blind); accident/coincidence; bad/good luck; destiny; predestination; Fortune; God; Source; Universe; non-physical; unknown to me; outside of/beyond me

6. Why and/or what for does the government/system exist? FI under whose will

Car

1. How do I feel about my current car?

3. If my current car matches my current life, why? FI what do I like about the vehicle

Changes

5. Am I ready/Do I want to be ...? FI sovereign; my owner; boss; biggest/own coach; guide

13. Can even little change much?

Desired Results

18. What do I want and its opposite at the same time? Why?

69. What can I assign ... for? FI a thing; my time/energy this Sunday

Development

2. What gaps/loopholes/blind spots do I have in ...? (FI my awareness; concentration; knowledge; skills; talents; passions; competence(s)) How can I remove them/fill them in?

9. Is something promoted as progress/development always a progress/development?

Earth

4. If Earth is/was a school, what do/would I need to graduate it?

23. Are difficulties increasing/(being) increased on Earth (in ...)? FI nowadays; deliberately; more and more; obstacles; they’re already so big that it’s unbearable; beyond any reasonable limit; balance; money; availability of well-paid jobs; affordable housing; for most people

Eco-friendliness

5. What can I renovate so that it’s still usable?

9. What do I prefer used instead of new? FI due to its quality/specific features

Family

1. What were/are my parents like for me? FI good; bad; overprotective; understanding; tender

13. Who outside my family is/would be like family to me?

Fashion

2. How do I know what’s fashionable now (in ...)?

6. What happens if I obey/ignore a fashion?

Happiness

2. If I’m not happy, what would have to happen for me to start happiness? FI what conditions would I have to meet

7. What improves my humor and is good for me? FI healthy

Health

4. What’s too bad for my health and makes me pay for mending it later (if its still mendable then) at some point? FI with money; time

29. How do(es) ... affect me? FI a skin cosmetic I use; sweets; meat; some other food; product

Holidays

1. What ... holidays do I know? FI important; wise; interesting; untypical; worth celebrating

10. Why and/or what for do I (not) celebrate ...?

Home

5. Do I feel at home in my current home?

12. What is a place where I would like to live really like? FI according to honest online texts; videos; forum/blog posts

Intoxicating Substances

4. Is alcohol/Are cigarettes a legal narcotic?

7. How do I view a meeting without alcohol where it’s usually present? FI a wedding

Law

4. Do punishments for breaking the law effectively deter people from breaking it? FI usually

5. Do people, institutions and/or other entities which create and/or enforce the law are always a paragon of obeying it?

Life

13. How can I summarize my life so far?

20. What makes me feel alive? FI want to seize another day

Mass Media

2. Do mass media ...? FI make people (more) stupid; smart; expand human horizons

10. Do celebrities always have as ... lives as (usually) shown on the media? FI fabulous

Money

3. Can money buy me everything?

19. What do I spend (too) much/little/no money for? Does it give me what I really want?

Other

7. How is an image of someone/something different from his/her/its real form? FI in songs; books; movies; television

29. What are the basics/fundamentals of ...? FI wise life; healthy; happy

People

23. What people (would) use against a person something they know about him/her? FI with what trait(s)

71. Should/Must/Do I have/want/need to belong to ...? FI a specific group

Possibilities

15. What’s becoming increasingly ... for me with my advancing age? FI good; bad; easy; difficult; nice; unpleasant

22. What did/do schools I graduated give me? FI my marks/grades; acquired knowledge; what preparation for life; today; after many years; in practice; the school of life

Postphysical Life

3. What does my soul (really) want compared with my current physical body? FI are their desires identical, similar or (totally) different

9. What do I want/need to do before my current physical body dies? FI what errands to handle

Religions

4. What is my Decalogue? FI what 10 core rules does it include

10. What distinguishes a religion from a sect/cult?

Safety

6. Do I guarantee the safety of my personal data via remote contact? FI telephone; Internet

55. Do I walk around without a light in the dark? FI even if I can turn it on; a flashlight/torch; from one light source to another

Self-awareness

53. What are my good/bad traits?

128. What’s currently my best idea for ...? Is it good enough or do I need a better one?

Sobering Questions

2. (My name), what has happened to you (in ...)?

19. How (the heck) was/am I able to live in this way (in ...)?

Technologies And Devices

5. Do I/Does someone/something force me to be available via remote contact all the time? (FI the Internet; telephone; email; instant messengers; social media) If so, who/what and/or why?

16. What is user-friendly/user-hostile? FI too much (to keep on using it); increasingly; extremely; a technology; device; machine; website; software; shop; product; service

Time(s)

2. Is (mainly/only) time a (great) healer? If not, what are better healing solutions?

19. How does the past/future affect my present time?

Truth

3. How can I live in truth to myself (in ...)?

12. Is it true/false that ...?

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