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Finzel Indicators, a list of personal indicators for tracking taste and lifestyle over the next indeterminate number of years.Fill out a new one before looking at any past answers.

Personal Culture:

  1. What is your favorite band?
  2. What is the genre of music you listen to most?
  3. What is your favorite pastime?
  4. How do you spend most of your free time?
  5. What is the most irksome thing in your day-to-day?
  6. What do you admire?
  7. Where do you work?
  8. Is there anywhere you'd rather work? Where?
  9. What do you do at work?
  10. What would you rather do?

Stress:

  1. What is your biggest source of stress?
  2. What scares you most about the future?
  3. Do you think more about your present, past, or future?
  4. Do you actively combat your stressors, or keep your distance?
  5. Have you been successful in your life?
  6. What is success?
  7. Does it feel like you have good friends that are a large part of your life?
  8. Are there actually good friends that are a large part of your life?
  9. Where did those friends, if any, come from?
  10. Do you worry about money? Why?

Happiness:

  1. What is a hobby you would like to get in to?
  2. What is one type of thing you would like to do more of?
  3. Who holds the most sway over your happiness?
  4. What's something that you've discovered to be enjoyable, recently?
  5. Are you happier than the people around you on a daily basis?
  6. How much time do you spend actively engaged in an activity per day?
  7. How much time do you spend with your mind wandering per day?
  8. On a scale from 1 to 10, ten being most positive, how positive are your wandering thoughts?
  9. How often do you relax?
  10. What separates relaxation from the rest of your time?

Movement:

  1. Are you making progress towards your goals?
  2. Are you living where you want to be living?
  3. Do you often see the people you want to see?
  4. Are you in a job that is along your career path?
  5. Have you made enough money to finance your goals?
  6. Are your friends successful?
  7. Are you a better person than you were before?
  8. Would your loved ones say that you are a better person than you were before?
  9. Would your colleagues say that you are a good person?
  10. What is your end goal?

Silly things:

  1. What's your favorite toothpaste?
  2. How many pairs of pants do you own?
  3. Do you have any socks with holes in them?
  4. Do you have a roommate?
  5. What is your favorite soda?
  6. What is your favorite liquor?
  7. What do you read for fun?
  8. What is your favorite video game?
  9. What is your favorite T.V. show?
  10. Are you on a diet?
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