The power of questions

When you ask yourself a question, it triggers 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 contemplate anything else.

Asking yourself a question prompts the brain to contemplate a behavior, which increases the probability that it will be acted upon.

A powerful question

Often, when I meet with clients, they are considering what is next in their business or career.

They usually come to me with a question, and, in turn, I find a way to ask them a powerful question.

A powerful question is a question that invites you into possibility.

It often feels scary to even consider, because of the tremendous possibility present in it.

A powerful question doesn't have an immediate answer.

The beauty in asking a powerful question is that you get to sit with it, not just for a few moments or even a day, but more like a year.

Viktor Frankl said,

“between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

If you were to ask yourself a powerful question that, if you asked yourself this question every morning for the next 365 days, it would transform your life, what would that question be?

Respond to this e-mail and let me know.

Love,

Audrey