- What Drains My Energy?
- This simple yet powerful question forces you to recognize the activities and habits that deplete your energy and make you feel unfulfilled.
- Identifying what drains your energy enables you to take control of your life and eliminate or minimize activities that no longer serve you, leading to a greater sense of joy and freedom.
- What Mistake Am I Making Over And Over?
- Identifying the recurring mistake enables you to pinpoint a specific habit to work on.
- Focusing on one recurring mistake allows you to streamline your efforts and make targeted changes to correct it, ultimately leading to more effective self-improvement.
- What Are 2 Skills That Can Change My Life?
- These questions serve as a valuable self-assessment tool, encouraging you to focus on self-improvement by recognizing energy-draining activities, recurring mistakes, and skill-enhancement opportunities.
- What Gives Me Energy?
- Focus on identifying experiences and activities that give you energy and make you feel fulfilled, aiming to incorporate more of these into your life.
- Strive to strike a balance by maximizing energy-boosting experiences and minimizing draining activities, ultimately making the most of your time.
- What New Problem Will I Have With Success?
- Embrace the idea that success often brings new problems and challenges, but it’s the quality of these challenges that matters, and they often signify growth and progress.
- How Have I Become Better Than Before?
- Focus on self-improvement by asking yourself how much better you are now compared to your past self rather than constantly comparing yourself to others.
- Who’s Good At This, And How’d They Get There?
- Instead of comparing yourself to highly successful individuals, focus on learning from their past experiences and actions when they were at a similar level as you.
- Seek out biographies, interviews, case studies, or studies that provide insights into what successful people did to progress when they were at a stage comparable to your current level.
- How Can I Improve For Next Time?
- After completing any task or achievement, develop a habit of asking yourself, “How can I improve this for the next time?” to continuously enhance your performance and progress.
- This question encourages ongoing self-improvement by prompting your brain to seek information and opportunities for optimizing your future endeavors.
- How Do I Know When To Do This?
- When facing challenges or negative emotions, use the NLP-inspired question, “How do you know when to do this?” to identify the triggers and thought patterns that lead to unproductive behaviors or feelings.
- What Would I Do If It Was Possible?
- When facing self-doubt or challenges, shift your mindset by asking, “What would you do if it was possible?” This question encourages you to explore possibilities and sparks an innovative mindset.
- You’ll expand your perspective, boost your confidence, and approach challenges with a more positive and solution-oriented attitude.
- Why Not Me?
- Challenge your self-doubt and limiting beliefs by asking, “Why not me?” This question encourages self-empowerment and highlights that if others can succeed, there’s no reason you can’t, as well.
- You’ll shift your perspective from doubt to possibility, reinforcing the idea that you have the potential and the right to pursue your goals and dreams.
- Why Can’t It Be Done?
- Challenge the notion that something can’t be done by asking, “Why can’t it be done?” This question encourages a shift from doubt to a mindset of potential and achievement.
Experts Mentioned:
Mark Manson: A three-time #1 New York Times bestselling author and online blogger
Richard Bandler: The co-founder of Neuro-Linguistic Programming
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