Proverbs: Laziness (Smarter Living)

 

1. What activities in life are you most passionate about? How regularly do you do them?

 

 

 

2. What were some of the things that quenched your passion growing up?

 

 

 

3.  What is your activity of choice when you are feeling lazy?

 

 

 

4. What could you do this week that you haven’t done in awhile that could make your life better five years from now? Will you do it?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Hurrying (Smarter Living)

 

1. What percentage of your average day do you spend hurrying?

 

 

 

2. What are some of the mistakes you’ve made that were the result of hurrying?

 

 

 

3. What are your top three priorities in life?

 

 

 

4. What do you need to do to slow down in dealing with your top priorities?

 

 

 




Proverbs: No Place Like Home (Smarter Living)

 

1. What is your strongest memory from your childhood home?

 

 

 

2. What is your favorite item in your home currently?

 

 

 

3. How do you deal with your work/home balance?

 

 

 

4. When does your home feel most like heaven?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Parenting (Smarter Living)

 

1. If you could pass three pieces of advice on to the next generation, what would they be?

 

 

 

2. What did you get from your parents that you most appreciate?

 

 

 

3. What would you like people to say about you at your funeral?

 

 

 

4. Who have been the parent figures in your life?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Knowing When You’ve Had Enough (Smarter Living)

 

1. Describe your battles with food and what has seemed to work for you.

 

 

 

2. Of the three disciplines of fasting, giving and sabbath, which is the most difficult for you and why?

 

 

 

3. When was the most contented time in your life, and why?

 

 

 

4. Who or what do you tend to trust other than God?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Ruling Your Spirit (Smarter Living)

 

1. When you get to feeling like a rundown city personally, what is usually the cause?

 

 

 

2. If there were one area of your life where you could choose to get control of, what would it be?

 

 

 

3. Why do you think so many Christians feel so helpless to make changes in their lives?

 

 

 

4. Besides God, who in your life believes in your potential the most?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Finding Fantastic Friends (Smarter Living)

 

1. What kind of friend are you?

 

 

 

2. What difference would, ‘listening before speaking’ make in your relationships?

 

 

 

3. How do you balance meeting the needs of others with meeting your own needs?

 

 

 

4. Judging by the people you spent time with last month, what kind of company do you keep?

 

 

 

5. By contrast, who did you used to hang around with?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Planning Ahead (Smarter Living)

 

1. Share about a time when one of your plans didn’t work out the way you thought it would.

 

 

 

2. What kinds of things cause people to stop making plans?

 

 

 

3. What plans are you currently working on?

 

 

 

4. Can you think of a time when your plan was exceeded by God’s plan for you?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Healthy Living (Smarter Living)

 

1. Why do you think people in our culture put such an emphasis on physical health, but not as much on the other kinds of health?

 

 

 

2. If diet and exercise are the keys to physical health, what do you think are the keys to emotional, mental and spiritual health?

 

 

 

3. How has your physical health been affected by a lack of attention to the other forms of health?

 

 

 

4. If you wanted to balance your health physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually, which area needs the most work in your life right now? What will you do about that?

 

 

 




Proverbs: Honesty & Integrity (Smarter Living)

 

1. What are some of the reasons why people lie?

 

 

 

2. Who is a person you have admired for their integrity? Explain how they have inspired you.

 

 

 

3. Who is a person that you have the easiest time to be honest with? Why?

 

 

 

4. What areas of your life could use more integrity?