Powerful questions.

[Smarky]

I am a creative and to me, the fundamentals of being creative are having great ideas and making those ideas happen.

Through the power of questions I think is a great idea for coming up with ideas. Ideas to improve your life, your personal effectiveness, get that project do or whatever. Ideas are the fuel that power the correct actions.

What next?
This question is recommended by Seth Godin. I love this. The idea is you need to be always moving. If you are the best at what you do, you can't afford to stand still and if your the worst or you just lost, you can't afford to stand still either! You should always be asking "What next?"

In regards to current projects you may ask the sequence of questions, What is the goal? What is the current reality? What next? (I ask this in my weekly reviews.

Some others:

What is the simplest solution possible?
What would you do differently if you were to be paid £1 million for the completion of your goal?
What would _____ do?

What questions do the readers here like to ask themselves or think would be valuable?

[Jennihul]

Oh! If you love powerful questions, you should read or listen to the audio book called The Right Questions, by Debbie Ford.

Excellent....


Jennifer

[Excellent Lodestar]

Originally Posted by Smarky

What questions do the readers here like to ask themselves or think would be valuable?

One of my favorite underrated subjects...

One I use a lot is:
"How would I be doing this differently if I were willing to let it be easy?"

My experience is that when we ask,(with sincerity) answers come. so keeping the quality high is important.

[rak]

How to become happy today?

What is good about this?


I ask this question specially when things seems getting infavor to me. Like pressure or challenges that comes to my life. I read on the book Awakening the giant within by Anthony Robbins that "the answer lies on the question" and yeah its true.

"What is good about this?" this question i think i heard to Dr. Wayne Dyer while listening to his lecture.

[ConquerSelf]

my personal favorite by steve jobs:

"If this was my last day alive, is what I am about to do today what I really want?"

and he continues:

"... And when the answer is no for too long, I know I've got to change what I'm doing."

steve jobs is a wise man

[stevedevane]

When I'm thinking about a particular goal, I like to ask myself what steps I need to take to get where I want to go. Once I have some ideas, then I ask myself which of those things I need to do first. After I have my plan, I ask myself what potential obstacles might I face and what I need to do to avoid or overcome them.

[mercuryrising]

I often ask myself, "Why did I put this in my reality?"

For example, my company recently made the entire property smoke-free. You can't even smoke in your car. This didn't go over well with us smokers, which is most of the company. I've never seen so many people chewing on sunflower seeds in my life.

I wasn't too happy about this either. I don't like smoking, but I don't like someone forcing me to quit either. By asking myself, "Why did I put this in my reality?" The responsibility comes back to me. I've wanted to quit smoking for a long time. I don't smoke at home or in the car. My job was the 'final straw' so to speak.