“He that cannot ask cannot live……..”

Life is full of questions. One of the best ways to gain information is to ask others who already have the knowledge you want to get.  If you want to make changes in your life’s experience, learning to ask questions is essential. Being willing to show you don’t know something to learn something is following the growth mindset.  Why is this the case? How do questions work? That is what I hope to answer here, today.

How do Questions work?

Asking a question immediately changes your focus.  The tone of the question will guide a person to investigate more of the same.  What am I happy about?  This is a question that is going to lead you to focus on what you are pleased about. You have no choice if you answer it.  It will lead to a list of positive things, and it is challenging to feel poorly after that.  If you ask, am I disappointed with you? Then you will open up that negative path for you.

This focus can work in conversations with other people as well. Guice them on a more positive path by asking them the right questions.  Others have to be willing to go down that path, but if they take a few steps and start answering the question, the rest will take care of themselves.  Questions dictate your focus, so ……….What could I be happy about? What is excellent in my life right now? What are you truly grateful for?  

Thoughts We Want from Questions

In establishing that focus on questions, you are allowed to determine precisely what you delete from your consciousness at this moment. Focusing on what you want to have will allow you to eliminate all oppositional thoughts.  The human mind can only hold one idea at a time, and if you are focusing your thoughts on what you want or need to do to get it, the seeds of doubt have no room even to be planted, let alone an opportunity to grow.

Challenges are going to occur in life. Rather than spending your time complaining about the challenge and giving away all your power, spend some time asking good questions about the challenge and determine how to eliminate it from your life for good. Learn to focus on your desires and delete all oppositional and negative thinking.   What can I learn from this challenge?  How can I grow from this? 

What is Available to You?

Everyone has a list of resources available to them. These are the people and things we can count on to help us achieve our goals. Learning to ask meaningful questions can lead you to contact new people or develop a new skill.  How can I turn this around? What is here that I am not seeing?  What action can I take right now that will move me closer to my goal?

As you ask questions, the mind has no choice but to seek an answer. That is how we work if we are sober and thinking straight.  How can my performance and production be improved? Learn to be curious toward positive achievement, and positive achievement is what you will experience.  Questions will open doors, not only for outside opportunities but more importantly for inner growth and personal empowerment through action.

Hear. Listen well, take manageable actions and do the best you can.

How can asking questions change your life today? 

“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.” – Eugene Ionesco

“The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question, by questioning we arrive at the truth.” – Peter Abelard

“A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.” – Bruce Lee

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