“Questions open many possibilities” To ask questions opens many possibilities. When one thinks about a topic, one’s mind tends to follow one thought after another, in links associating one with one more. However, when one asks a question, one tends to wonder, and the mind is more free to wander in any of several directions. Furthermore, when one is wandering, one tends to ask several questions. So do you think that by asking questions, one opens one’s mind to many possibilities? The power of creating new possibilities comes from the magical effect that questions have on our lives. The kinds of questions we tend to ask ourselves consistently have an effect on the quality of our lives. If you ask yourself “Why is my life a mess?” you will get lots of information about why your life a mess. If you ask yourself “Why do I always cry because of love?” you will get lots of information about why you always cry because of love. By doing this again and again, you will see an adverse effect or the opposite of the results you desire, partially because you will start associating yourself with your mistakes and thus decreases your self-esteem. One of the major differences between people and their outlook on life is the questions that they consistently ask themselves. If this seems like a strange observation, it may be that you have been underestimating the power of questions to change your mindset. Questions have the ability to change our focus in an instant. Asking the right questions can be change our mindset from a limiting one to an empowering one. Our personal view of reality is connected on what we focus on and questions are of the fastest ways to shift to an empowering and resourceful mindset. We are all in habit of asking ourselves questions every day, most of the time were not even aware of their effect. Our minds love it when we ask ourselves questions. Questions provide the mind wit incentive, direction and focus. As soon as we ask a question, our mind immediately begins searching for an answer. If we don’t like has a lot to do with the questions we are asking.
If you ask yourself questions like “what if I were to turn this around?”, “How can I turn this around?”, “How can I make it better?” you will get lots of information about ow to go about doing it. But more importantly, you will be driven to take action to produce the result. What you would do if you knew you could not fail? By changing the quality of the questions you ask, you can start changing your entire experience of life. Questions are the answers, so ask intelligently and precisely. Suboptimal thinking is when you ask questions like, “What’s a good way to do this thing?” or “How can I solve this problem?” Optimal thinking is when you ask, “What’s a best way to do this?” or “How can I solve this problem in the best way possible?” it may seem like a subtle and unimportant difference, but when you start applying this rule to your life, you’ll see an improvement in results. According to Ken Blanchard, Ph.D., author of The One Minute Manager, optimal thinking is the language of our best self and the mental basic peak performance. Be your best. Optimize personal and business performance. Optimal thinking has a little bit for everyone and will help people be the best self they can be. All in all, questions that cause us to focus on possibilities and solutions are the ones that empower us by shifting our mindset. The problem is, we can easily slip into the habit of asking ourselves that are limiting, or even mentally and emotionally disabling. Whatever we focus on the most will eventually become our reality. By training ourselves to consciously ask empowering questions, regardless of our circumstances, we will direct our mindset to continually focus on our new possibilities and solutions. This is exactly the kind of focus that enhances our personal growth and development. Questions have a dramatic effect on everything we do in life. They determine our abilities, the quality of our relationships and our income. By asking the right questions we can shift to a more empowering mindset and find the answers needed to change any aspect of our life.