Retrospective Inventory
RETROSPECTIVE INVENTORY
1. Briefly describe those events in your life which you remember with great satisfaction. Indicate why it was so satisfying. Please put your age or time span at the time of each event in the parenthesis at the beginning of each description. Strive for at least 10; you may go beyond that number if you wish.
2. When you have completed numbers one and two of the inventory, go back and place a checkmark beside events in number one and the five events in number two which in your opinion are most important. Write the number of each event and describe in greater detail, using a separate sheet of paper for each and attach them to this document.
3. Describe as many events as you can remember when someone who was perceived to be your “enemy” was somehow reconciled to you. List each event on a separate sheet of paper and attach them to this document.
4. What lenses do you view the world through? (Lenses are our ethnicity, race, culture, sex, and etc.)
5. List five experiences you want to have before you die. Given what you know about yourself, project a timeline for their accomplishment.
6. Write an obituary for yourself, summarizing your life to the point of death.
7. Briefly describe those events in your life which you remember that have been peak or life-changing experiences. Indicate they were so life-changing. Please put your age or time span at the time of each event in the parenthesis at the beginning of each description. Strive for at least 10; you may go beyond that number if you wish.
8. The Philosopher Rene Descartes said, “I think I am, therefore, I am.” Using this philosophical thought…” WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?”
9. What is your philosophy?
