40 Questions You Should Answer Every Year

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A quite interesting article I read on the blog of the CEO of Obsidian.

1. What did you do this year that you’ve never done before?
2. Did you keep your New Year’s resolutions?
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
4. Did anyone close to you die?
5. What cities/states/countries did you visit?
6. What would you like to have in the coming year that you lacked this year?
7. What date from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
9. What was your biggest failure?
10. What other hardships did you face?
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
12. What was the best thing you bought?
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
14. Whose behavior made you appalled?
15. Where did most of your money go?
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
17. What song will always remind you of this year?
18. Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer?
19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
21. How did you spend the holidays?
22. Did you fall in love this year?
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
24. What was your favorite TV program?
25. What was the best book you read?
26. What was your greatest musical discovery this year?
27. What was your favorite film?
28. What was your favorite meal?
29. What did you want and got?
30. What did you want and didn’t get?
31. What did you do on your birthday?
32. What would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept this year?
34. What kept you sane?
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most?
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
37. Who did you miss?
38. Who was the best new person you met?
39. What valuable lesson did you learn this year?
40. What quote summarizes your year?