Are you getting everything you want out of life?
Are your relationships focused and heading in a loving and positive direction?
Are you satisfied with the way your business is progressing?
Do you feel you are reaching your highest potential and living out your purpose?
As a mentor and a success coach, I am always encouraging my clients to change their questions to change their life. And you do so by engaging in what I call courageous questions.
From CEO’s who are running large organizations to teenagers who stay locked in their rooms for hours, and you have no clue what they are up to – Both ends of the spectrum will benefit from asking courageous questions.
By changing your questions and asking courageous questions it can help you solve problems faster and make better decisions, so you can change your life.
The Power of Courageous Questions
- Courageous questions get you thinking.
They are about probing deeper and getting you to think more creatively. Such questions open you up to new ideas.
- Courageous questions demand answers.
When you ask yourself a question, it’s difficult for your subconscious to leave it open ended. It demands an answer.
- Courageous questions give you information.
That information can be very valuable and insightful for yourself and others.
- Courageous questions make you open up to yourself.
It’s about making a deeper connection.
- Courageous questions can get you unstuck.
If you are stuck in a pattern of life, by asking a courageous question you will be changing the normal routine, and you will create new options – which will, in turn, create change.
- Courageous questions demand courageous answers.
And courageous answers bring about changes and new directions.
- Courageous questions can make you a great listener.
If you ask deep questions, and you stay still long enough to listen, it will bring you deeper into yourself and others.
Asking courageous questions can make small changes in your life. But those small changes can make a world of a difference. You can enrich your life and improve your relationships just by asking courageous questions.
Lead from within: Every organization and every individual looking to create positive change must engage in courageous questions. The result will be more meaningful thought and more effective outcomes.
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Of Lolly’s many awards and accolades, Lolly was designated a Top-50 Leadership and Management Expert by Inc. magazine. Huffington Post honored Lolly with the title of The Most Inspiring Woman in the World. Her writing has appeared in HBR, Inc.com, Fast Company (Ask The Expert), Huffington Post, and Psychology Today, and others. Her newest book, The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness has become a national bestseller.
Jude Boudreaux
05. Feb, 2011
Lolly, there’s an amazing book by the same title. I have my choice map up on the wall in my office, and I reference the book frequently. It’s amazing how powerful our own questions can be.
http://www.amazon.com/Change-Your-Questions-Life-Powerful/dp/1576752410
Lolly Daskal
05. Feb, 2011
Jude,
I am not familiar with the book. But I will look it up. What would be the most courageous question you have asked or have been asked. Our friend Martijn posted. It gets your mind thinking.
Martijn
05. Feb, 2011
Great post, Lolly! I’ll do my best to join the chat when I am done travelling… Maybe the next chat could feature:
– What’s the best courageous question you’ve ever been asked?
– And the best one you asked?
Lolly Daskal
05. Feb, 2011
Awesome my friend
What great questions. Do you have any answers?
A.J. Toogood
05. Feb, 2011
I’m sure going to try to figure out how to join your Tuesday night chat. You are an awesome leader, Lolly!
Lolly Daskal
05. Feb, 2011
It will be a privilege to have you partake. Your voice matters. You will make a difference.
maureen
06. Feb, 2011
Very interesting idea about courageous questions. I always ask questions that get my clients thinking as well….
Lolly Daskal
06. Feb, 2011
The idea of asking courageous questions is to get people thinking….
Dave Carpenter
08. Feb, 2011
Many years ago, Tony Robbins introduced me to the power of the questions we ask ourselves. Love the way you have taken his concept to an even higher point with your courageous line of questions.
So appreciate the way that you so consistently get me to stretch my thinking.
Jude Boudreaux
11. Feb, 2011
There are three questions that I ask all of my clients that I find very profound. This is a simplified version, but here goes.
1. If you had enough money to live for the rest of your life, what would you do?
2. If you had 5 years to live, what would you change?
3. If you had 24 hours to live, what would you regret?
Teri Goggin-Roberts
13. Feb, 2011
Lolly – I just found your blog and love it. This topic is fascinating. Do you also include in the category of courageous questions those questions that bubble up from within? I find that the questions that surface during quiet moments are guaranteed to challenge and require courage to respond with integrity. (Or they keep re-surfacing, as you mentioned, demanding to be answered.)
Thanks for getting me thinking!