For how much of your life are you present?

Where are you most of the time if you are not present?

What do you want from your meditation practice?

Compare meditation practice with physical exercise. What are the purpose, methods, effects, and results associated with each discipline?

Where does meditation rank in your list of priorities?

Does the routine of your life support or undermine consistent meditation practice?

What difficulties do you encounter regularly in your practice?

How are you addressing them? Meditation is the cultivation of attention. What is attention? How do you know when you are in attention?