Questions for discussion:

4) Personal Principles
What principles do you follow in your life? Give us examples. Who or what circumstances made you believe in them? Are they really useful? Have you ever revised some of your basic principles? If yes, what were the causes and the effects of those? If not, what if… you did so.
Who are your role-models: parents, historical personalities, people in everyday life, artistic or invented heroes and heroines? How have you chosen them? In what periods of your lives? Have you wanted to change your heroes?
Do you want to be a hero yourself? How? For whom? What should you do for this?

5) You, your Values and Deeds
Who are you? ‘Where are you from?’ Where are you going to?

What are your personal values? (examples of those can be some abstractive things like: love, wealth, health, perfection, joy, leadership, fairness etc.) Why? Do you really follow them? How can you confirm that?

Are you ever not satisfied with what you do? Why do you do what you are doing? Who is to blame for that? Why don’t you try to stop doing that and do something else instead? How are you going to do things which coincide with your values?

6) Setting up goals, following them
Do you have priorities for this/next year (3-4 big deeds for a year are absolutely enough!). Do you use a plan to achieve them (short/long-term plans)? What? If not, how would it be if you did?
Is it difficult to follow your plan? Why? Do your purposes support each other or contradict? How to match them? What are other important things for putting our goals into reality?

7) Getting pleasure of your deeds
Do you do what you really love? Are those things connected with your goals? How do you limit the time which you spend for your deeds?

If you don’t get pleasure of actions which you have to do according to your purposes, why do you do them? How often do you do ‘once-only activities’, especially for pleasure? What does it give you? What does it stole from you?

8) Choice of information, authors, friends, groups of people, teachers.
Have you ever thought about thieves of time (time hogs)? Have you tried to throw unnecessary books trough the window, drop out with stupid friends, ran away from some ‘teachers’? How was it (or would it have been now if you had done it)? How do you usually join any community? What does your choice in terms of information depend on?