Table Topic Questions

Here are a list of ‘Thought-Provoking’ Table Topics I have compiled. Enjoy, Share & Attempt at your Next Toastmaster Club Meeting.

Are you holding onto something that you need to let go of? What’s stopping you?

Could you be persuaded to kill someone? If you answer no, how much money would it take to change your mind?”

Describe the greatest adventure of your life

Describe the next five years of your life, and your plans, in a single sentence

Do you ask enough questions, or are you happily settling for what you know already?

Do you consider yourself the hero or the villain in your story?

Does this person know how much they mean to you? When was the last time you told them?

How do you apply the learning from this regret to your actions today?

How do you celebrate the things you do have in your life?

How do you spend the majority of your free time? Why?

How many people do you truly love? What are you doing for them?

How much control do you really have over yourself?

How would you describe yourself in 5 words?

If karma was coming back to you, would it help or hurt you?

If today was the last day of your life, what would you want to do?

If you could ask a single person one question, and they had to answer truthfully, who and what would you ask?

If you could ask for one wish, what would it be?

If you could go back in time, once, and change a single thing – what would it be?

If you could send a message to the entire world, what would you say in 30 seconds?

If you could start over, what would you do differently?

If you could watch everything that happened in your life until now, would you enjoy it?

If you dropped everything to pursue your dreams, what would you be risking?

If you had a friend that you spoke to the same way you speak to yourself, how long do you think that person would allow you to be your friend?

If you had a year left to live, what would you achieve over the next 12 months?

If you had to teach someone one thing, what would you teach?

If you lost everything tomorrow, whose arms would you run into to make everything ok?

If you received enough money to never need to work again, what would you spend your time doing?

If you spend a day watching movies when you should be working a day wasted or well spent?

If your entire life was a movie, what title would best fit?

Is being open-minded a virtue, if it’s causing destructive ideas to spread throughout society?
Standing at the gates of heaven, and God asks you “Why should I let you in?” What do you reply?
What are the chances you’ve passed up on that you regret?

What are the things that stand between you and complete happiness?

What are you looking forward to?

What bad habits do you want to break?

What can you do today that you couldn’t do a year ago? What will you be able to do at this time next year?

What did you want to be when you were a kid?

What did your life teach you yesterday?

What do you “owe” yourself?

What do you really love to do? Do you do it often? If you answer no, why not?

What do you want most out of life?

What drives you to do better at something?

What gets you excited and driven to achieve?

What have you done that you’re most proud to have achieved?

What have you done to pursue your dreams lately? How about today?

What have you done today to make someone’s life better?

What have you given up on?

What is honor, and does it even matter anymore?

What is the difference between living and existing?

What is the last thing that you’ve done that’s really worth remembering?

What is your greatest strength?

What is your greatest weakness?

What makes you smile?

What makes you special?

What makes you unique?

What terrifies you the most?

What were you doing when you last lost track of the time?

What will people say at your funeral?

What would happen if you never wasted another
minute of your life, what would that look like?

What would you change about your life if you knew you would never die?

What would you do differently if you knew that no one was judging you?

When did you last push the boundaries of your comfort zone?

When did you not speak up, when you know you really should have?

When it’s all said and done, will you have said more than you have done?

When was the last time you travelled somewhere new?

When was the last time you tried something new?

When you think of your home, what immediately comes to mind?

When you’re 90 years old, what will matter most to you in the world?

Where would you like to live? Why haven’t you moved?

Who are you really? Describe yourself without using your name, or any attributes given to you by society and really think. Deep down, who are you?

Whose life have you had the greatest impact on?

Would you be a martyr and risk your reputation by standing up for what is right in front of your peers? Or is it better to be pragmatic and do nothing?

Would you break the law to save a loved one?

Would you rather have 10 years of excellent health, or 30 years of average health?

Would your life be better or worse, if you knew the time and place where you would die?