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by Coach Joel

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you stay with.

The quality of your life is determined by the quality of the questions you stay with.

This isn't a call to keep more questions open for the sake of it. It's a call to notice which one is already sitting with you and give it more room than you're used to.

That's the line on the graphic here, and it took me a long time to actually believe it.

For years I thought quality of life came from the answers I'd collected - the plans in place, the problems solved, the certainty I could point to.

I see it differently now. The questions we carry, and how we carry them, shape more of our days than the answers ever do. A question you rush past leaves you moving fast in a direction you never chose. A question you stay with starts to reorganize how you see everything around it.

This isn't a call to keep more questions open for the sake of it. It's a call to notice which one is already sitting with you and give it more room than you're used to.

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