Key points

While it's easy to go on autopilot, it's important to periodically see how well our lives represent us.

It helps to create a sculpture of your relationships, a childhood family picture, or a list of pivotal events.

The question is whether something is missing from your life: What needs to change to avoid repeating history?

You shape your life every day through your choices, how you interact with others, what you feel, and what you accomplish. As you face death, as we all do, you must decide how well your choices reflect you and ultimately how satisfied you are with the final result that is your life.

Here are three exercises, and hopefully food for thought, to take artistic stock of the state of you right now.

1. Create a sculpture representing an intimate relationship.

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