Ask Better Questions Get Better Answers

If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on it, I
would use the first 55 minutes to determine the proper questions
to ask. Albert Einstein.


What colour is your house?


You thought about the colour of your house right? Here are more
fun questions.


What are you proud of? What makes you most happy? Take a moment,
think about that.


When you ask yourself a question your brain is focused on that
question. In fact it works to answer the question.


Questions are a powerful way to focus your mind. When you hear a
question it momentarily hijacks your thought process on the
question.


You didn’t consciously tell your brain to think about the
question and answer it just did so automatically.


Questions are powerful. Not only does hearing a question affect
what our brains do in that instant it can also shape our future
behaviours.


Questions trigger a mental reflex known as “instinctive
elaboration.” When a question is posed, it takes over the brain’s
thought process and when your brain is thinking about the answer
to a question, it can’t focus on anything else.


If you are solving a problem asking, “why is this happening to
me?” may not be the best question to ask.


Perhaps a better question could be, “what do I need to make this
situation better”?


3 Powerful Focus Questions. 


Here are three questions to help focus your mind on solutions
rather than problems.


The first question is about Vision or
the Outcome you want.


What do you want? (What are your goals?)


The second question is about purpose and reinforces your focus on
the first question.


Why do you want that? (Why is it important to you)?


The third question is about action.


How will you get what you want? What’s your plan?


I have found these three broad based questions very helpful in
refocusing my mind away from over thinking problems and more on
what’s required to help me take the next best step toward a
solution.


Have these questions or others you may come up with on a poster
in your room or perhaps on your computer.


Have a visual prompt of powerful questions that steer your focus
and attention toward feeling better and toward positive actions.


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