Live the Right Questions

I love questions...especially provocative questions that get people to think and think deeply. One of my favorite questions is "what would you do if you knew you were assured of success?"

Wow! Doesn't that blow the lid off of mundane questions, like "how are you?" Try using that question as an opener at your next networking meeting. I'll bet you have a long conversation after that.

Here's another one: "What do you want to be able to say you are most proud of in life when you're on your deathbed?" Morbid? Not really. It gives you perspective. It cuts through the clutter and lets you know what's really important to you. Death is your best advisor.

What the right questions do is point our minds toward answers. Although those answers might not spring readily to your lips, your mind will start working to find the answers.

Here's another great question: "What would it take to double my income within a year?" I'm working on that one right now. Come back to the blog in a year and I'll let you know what I figured out. I'm guessing it has to do with a couple of things: intention and focused action with alittle leveraging of my skills and talents mixed in.

Here's another: "What do I need to do, learn, or be to have the most successful, fulfilling, happy relationship I could dream of?" We all want love, we just don't know how to find it. Answer: Be loving! What goes around comes around in this.

Successful people don't have all the answers. What they do is ask all the right questions!

Take the sage advice of the Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke and "have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

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Annette Vaillancourt, Ph.D. - Corporate Trainer and Motivational Speaker
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