Big Questions To Ask Yourself
Posted on December 17, 2007 - Filed Under Inspiration
So often when you are facing a problem, asking the right questions can clarify the whole situation for you. They can reveal insights. They can frame answers. They can define the very solution of the issue that you are facing.
I have been very fortunate in the way that I was brought up. The way that my parents raised me was to be unafraid of asking the big questions of both myself and others. Of course, sometimes I ask the questions too brashly, which inevitably gets an unfavourable response. However, I always seem to get away with it because the questions that I ask are steeped in insight and truth. Either that, or I have really good puppy dog eyes when I overstep the bounds.
Chris Barez-Brown says, “With big questions you always carry a guru sage in your pocket.” You just have to have the courage to ask the question of yourself or your group and be willing to answer it honestly. The right question is the keystone. Ask it and all the difficulty falls crashing to the ground and clarity prevails.
Choosing the right question from the thousands of potentials is down to intuition. Listen to your guy. But when in doubt, ask more questions.
Ask yourself:
- What if I couldn’t fail? What would I do then?
- What if I only had one day to live? What would I do then?
- What if I had all of the money in the world? What would I do then?
- What if I was trying to get fired? What ideas come to mind?
- What if my life had to be exceptional or I would be sent to jail?
- What is your goal in life?
- What if I had to get a tattoo? What would it be?
- What if I wasn’t scared of anything?
- What if I wanted to be famous?
- If I could learn one thing, what would it be?
- Christian
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I have some answers…
1) An astronaut
2) Go to the mountains and the beach and stand in the wind
3) Research
4) Steal sandwiches
5) Then exceptional wouldn’t be a positive because it would be associated with coercion not choice
6) To be great
7) You’re coming with me during the holleedays to get it!
8) I would be doing greater things
9) Being known shall come in its own time
10) I would learn to do do what it takes to do all of the above