Coffee Contemplation: TQ Evolved
Crafting meaning from this year's choices
Audio narration by David Marlow
Over the past two weeks of Coffee Contemplations, the Two Questions (TQ) practice has guided us through reframing challenges and discovering abundance.
As the year draws to a close, our practice now turns toward understanding the decisions that have shaped our path and those that await us.
This timing proves particularly potent. December invites both reflection and foresight—a natural pause to examine how our choices have created our present and how they might shape our future. The questions this week serve as bridges between the year's experiences and the possibilities ahead.
Begin today by listing the decisions that are occupying your thoughts. Consider both the choices you've made and those still awaiting your attention. Let this inventory ground your week's contemplation with these questions:
What am I saying yes or no to right now?
When I look back in 5 years, which options will make the story better?
Sit with these questions daily. Write what emerges. Notice how each choice connects to the larger arc of your life. Then act on what you discover.
This third set of questions moves us from reframing challenges to recognizing abundance, and now to examining the quiet architecture of our choices.
As December invites reflection, these questions illuminate not just decisions, but the patterns that reveal what we're becoming.
In these final weeks of December, these questions take on special significance as they illuminate not just individual decisions, but the broader patterns of how we choose to live.
Remember: The choices we make today become the story we tell and live tomorrow.
Quest well.
I love this Two Questions series David. It's simple, straight-forward, yet very powerful. And the timing is perfect here as another year ends and a new one begins.
A phrase from today's installment that really hit me is "...examining the quiet architecture of our choices". Wow! That's really profound, and so very true. Our choices do indeed set the architecture of our lives. And many of them are made so quietly that we hardly notice them.
Thank you for sharing TQ with us. It has quickly become the basis for my reflection here at the end of the year. 🙏
It has been my experience...thatvI do not receive things to say no to because I didd anything wrong but so that I can continue to say Heaven YES to more of what I need & choose 🙌