the questions everyone should ask before entering a new decade of life
There is a weighted question that constantly follows you around.
It doesn't appear all the time, but it surfaces in moments of stillness, whether waiting for an appointment, moving from one thing to the next, or in the middle of the night when everything else rests. It doesn't announce itself. Rather, it waits for the opportunity to be known and reminded of. Although the question isn't always the same, it usually comes through as something like: “Is this it?”
This three-worded question seeks your attention. This article is for the people who are finally ready to pause and come to terms with this nudge, making themselves available to the question worth pursuing.
The Weight of a Milestone
There are certain points in life where time becomes impossible to ignore. Something interrupts the predictable sequence of events that unfold in our daily lives, routines which we have grown accustomed to, day-in and day-out, and stops us in our tracks. As the years start to feel like a current you are either swimming with or against, you become acutely aware of what you are moving toward, including what you may be leaving behind.
These moments tend to cluster around the edges of a milestone birthday, the years just before and just after turning 30, 40, or 50. These milestones carry a particular weight. This is often because, in this period of life, something in you demands to be heard about your responsibilities, your priorities, and the changes you have been too busy to address. It's the moment when the life you have been building and the life you actually want are either in alignment or drifting apart.
The questions that follow are designed for exactly that moment.
Have you ever given yourself the time and space to ask what you actually want from your life? Not what makes sense or what others expect, but what you want?
Are you living in a body you feel at home in, or one you've learned to work around?
Are you building toward something that matters to you, or maintaining a lifestyle that keeps you too comfortable to change?
Are the people closest to you a reflection of who you are today, or who you used to be?
When you are struggling, do you have people in your life you can be completely honest with? Or have you surrounded yourself with people who only know the version of you that "has it together?"
If you removed the title, the income, and the obligations, who would you say you are? What would you stand for? Who would care?
Have you confused a successful career with a fulfilling one?
If time and responsibilities were removed from the equation for one month, what would you do with it? How would you spend it?
It's not an accident if any of these questions gave you pause. Something in you may have already known the answer, or at least suspected it. Others might have been the first time you have thought about it. The discomfort a question creates is a signal that your reason for reading this article is worth examining more thoughtfully. The truth that speaks through you is closer to the surface than you realize.
Most people move through the edges of a new decade without ever giving themselves the time and space to sit with questions that evoke thoughts and feelings that move them. They stay in motion because motion feels like progress, even though "forward" isn't always the same as aligned.
If what surfaced here feels worth pursuing, then welcome. You are in the right place.
GlideView Collective exists for exactly this moment. If the questions in this article surfaced something worth paying attention to, the work of understanding what to do with it is what we do. The articles, the frameworks, and the Ten-Year Visionnaire Program were built for people who are ready to stop moving through life on autopilot and start living it with purpose.
You don't need to have it figured out to begin. You just need to be willing to take the first step.