Category: Questions … Fri

Hi, it’s Friday, the play and ask questions day.

What are your favorite things about the fall?!?!?

Some of mine:
* The smell of leaves
* The COLOR of leaves
* Ice cream – I know it’s possible at any time of year, but now there are these flavors: pumpkin, chestnut, later eggnog. :)
* THE WIND!!!! Great wind in the fall, and usually not too cool yet.
* Good time to get together with friends … going inside into cozy places.

…. and your favorite things about the fall?

Q: What’s your favorite flower?

* Daisy.
* Today, gladiolus!

And why?

* Daisies are so bright, they totally make me happy. Life is simple. Daisies are simple. They are proponents of the idea that life is good. Sunflowers are awesome too!
* Gladiolus is a neat, neat flower – tall, majestic, and lively – many blossoms on its stem.

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Today is Question Friday, please add your answers! :)

Q: If all of a sudden, someone were to say, “Boo!” to you, what can you think of that might have scared you!? :)

My answers:
* An impending deadline!
* Something I forgot to do.
* A lion morphed from a bear morphed from a wolf.
* A mean Transformer.
* Crawly things.
* A past deadline!
* Nothing.

:)

Welcome to question Friday! Would love to know your answers to this question. Have a great weekend! Best, S.

It’s Labor Day weekend – long weekend.
Q: What’s the craziest thing you can imagine that you would do?!?!!
:)

My answers:
* Do a cartwheel on the beach – what beach? when will I be at a beach?
* Eat chocolate (haven’t since Feb)
* Dry my clothes on clothes lines
* Say HOORAH HOORAH HOORAH in a place where it could be embarrassing for me.
* Ride a horse
* Ride a Ferris wheel (don’t love them)
* Do a lot of things upsidedown
* Pretend to be a tree

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Happy question Friday… What will you do? :)

I know an 80-year-old woman who wakes up every morning, goes to the mirror, and says, “I am so beautiful. Hello, me. Hello to the whole world. I am so young, so elegant, so beautiful, and so much fun. Have a super day, me!” And, most importantly, these aren’t just words to her: saying these things makes her feel great!

What things can you say to yourself to make yourself feel great? And, what’s even more interesting to me, what can you ask yourself to make yourself feel great?!

Q: What questions do you ask yourself to get in a good mood?

Here are some I ask myself:
* What would it take for you to feel calm and great?
* So what?
* What’s the best thing that can come from this?
* What did you learn from this? And why is it likely to not happen again?
* How did you feel last time you felt really good and calm and great?

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On Fridays, I post questions… would love it if you feel like answering!

Today’s question is suggested by Chris Harrison! This is such a fun question, and it fits with this note about interior design. I first started asking this question in college when I spoke with the parents of my friends – well, a version of the question: I used to ask, “Why do you live there?” It’s so interesting to me why people choose to live in certain places.

Also, a great thing about this question is that it’s about, “what do you want?” and “where would you live?” I often think that it’s with friends that you can dream about things, about the future, about the “if”s. Where would you live?

Q: If you could live anywhere, where would it be and why?
Since it’s a guest question, my answers are in the comments too. :) COOL! I love guest questions. Chris runs a blog on which he talks about work, family, his home. Check it out!

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On Fridays, I ask questions (today, it’s rather late in the day!)… would love it if you’re in the mood to answer!

I was talking to a friend recently, and asking what other questions I should ask on the site, and he said, “Hey, why not ask what questions people want to answer?” I thought, “Hey!” So here we are. :)

Q: What questions would be most fun for Friday questions?! What questions would you have most fun answering?

My answers:
* What’s the coolest experience you’ve ever had?
* What’s the thing you’re most proud of having done in elementary school?
* Describe your best friend from when you were growing up.
* What are some of the most beautiful things or places you’ve ever seen?
* What’s the most unusual feeling you’ve ever had?

Thanks! Really looking forward to reading your thoughts about questions that you want to be asked!

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Each Friday, I post a question. I would love it if you feel like answering the question! Thanks. (I’m a big fan of privacy also, so if you don’t want to use your name, just use an initial or just write “anonymous,” and if you don’t want to put your email address for privacy reasons, just put mine – it’s at the link ‘email me’ above.)

What makes me feel most alive?

On My Own:
* Lounging. When time stands still. When you’re lazily doing nothing and enjoying yourself immensely – usually after work or on a weekend. Just lying on your back on a picnic table in the local park, looking up at the moving clouds. Just being outside in nature without even necessarily moving, lounging as time goes by.
* Pushing myself in sports. Running. Swimming. To total exertion – talk about “alive!”
* Getting past a challenge. Daring myself and then doing it. (Like the ideas in The Game of Work – just setting new metrics to get better at. Or doing something risky – like making an announcement in a crowded train.)

With People:
* Debating and Story-telling. My really good friend says that the two times time when people are most alive are when they are debating something with each other (because then their brains have to be active, have to be engaged in the back-and-forth), and when they’re telling stories (because then their brains are actively reliving those stories).
* SPORTS! Rock climbing. Hoops. Volleyball. Hiking. Rollerblading.
* Outdoorness. Even separately from sports, being outside – hiking, rock climbing, running into the cold east-coast ocean on July 4.
* Finishing a project. For work or with classmates. This is such a good feeling.
* Just lounging with people you really like. Nothing is sometimes a very, very good activity.

I feel like I am a delineating the different activities even a little too much. All I really mean to say is that activities that push me make me feel the most alive! (Many would call that flow.) And activities that quiet me also make me feel most alive. Push me and quiet me. :)

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What makes you feel most alive?

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On Fridays, I post questions because I love questions. I would love it if you feel like answering the questions! Thanks. (I’m a big fan of privacy also, so if you don’t want to put your name in, just use an initial or just fill in the letter “A” and we’ll know it’s anonymous, and if you don’t want to put your email address for privacy reasons, just put mine – it’s at the link ‘email me’ above.)