Why — Your most important question

Socrates — Know Thyself 

Socrates is my best of the best coaches I have. A dear long friend.
He’s a tough cookie.
Really tough. Difficult to get rid of.
Very demanding. Asking always for more.

Sometimes, he seems too much, even pushy, a lot too much.
Then, he seems O.K., in a friendly, caring way.
Not all the time, but…

He suggests being curious, creative, and imaginative. And critical. Mostly critical.
To get a better health.
To become more alive—alight—aflame.
To be more efficient—resilient.
To tell the truth—always the truth—no excuses.

To have great and better friends—better than you are.
To discover a better reason to live, serve, and help those around us.
To care enough about ourselves and realize how valuable our life is, our health is.
To pamper ourselves, to celebrate our success, achievements, and goals.

He cared a lot about why we should increase our inner development.
To think by ourselves, speak the truth, and criticize authorities.
To help and love men, women, children, animals, and Mother Earth around us.

He called himself a gadfly.
Irritating, provoking a deeper search to analyse, and better understand ideas, problems, or dilemmas.
Still is.

His tools are questions. More questions. Even more questions.
His way toward the truth is to ask the right questions.
Pushing further with dialogues.
Great and deep conversations.

To become a mentor—a supporter—someone who cares, who understands, who can put himself in the other’s shoes.
To help yourself and them grow.
To get back to basics and go for the essentials, the survival ones.
To search for alternatives or better choices. To be savvy.

To be a lifelong learner.
To look for beauty, courage, sincerity, challenges, and enjoy a full life.
To laugh a lot. And often. Like kids—300 to 400 times a day.
Not twice a week as I’ve seen too many times with some adults—it’s deadly.

So, keep asking yourself how, who, why, what, where, when, and which
Until you have a satisfactory answer… for now.
The more answers you get, the more questions you’ll want to ask.

So, please, follow my friend Socrates’ way.

You can expect that, as your coach, I’ll also be your new gadfly.