33 Questions

The quality of our lives is determined in part by the questions we ask. So here you have it: 33 questions to help prompt quality conversations at the very best and a few AHA moments ‘interview style’ at the very least. May this list be a tool used at the dinner table or during a one-on-one with an aging relative or quietly, with yourself, as you ponder who you are.

1. Where are you now in your life?
2. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
3. What is your greatest fear?
4. What is your greatest love?
5. Which historical figure do you admire the most?
6. Which living person do you most admire?
7. What character attribute is your strongest?
8. What character attribute do you deplore about yourself?
9. What steps have you taken to change it?
10. What is your earliest childhood memory?
11. What activity did you love to do as a child?
12. If you could have any career, what would it be?
13. Favorite type of music?
14. Favorite song?
15. Favorite food?
16. Favorite car?
17. Favorite moment in the last week?
18. Favorite quote?
19. Favorite exercise?

20. Favorite book?
21. Favorite movie?
22. Sweet or salty?
23. If lack of money/time/health were no hindrance, what would you do?
24. What’s your greatest extravagance?
25. Where do you go when you need to heal?
26. Where would you live if you could live anywhere?
27. If you could dine with anyone, living or passed on, who would it be?
28. What travel journey stands out as special?
29. Who would you send gratitude to at this moment?
30. If you could do it all over again, what would you change?
31. What advice would you give your grandchildren?
32. What is your greatest joy?
33. How would you like to be remembered?