Question Yourself : Mind-blowing questions

He who asks a question remains a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask remains a fool forever – Chinese Proverb

Here are some of the best questions I have encountered on my journey to self-development. I use them regularly during monthly and yearly reviews and at specific times when I am looking for new insight into a particular area.

Now it is your turn to tap into the power of the questions and the books below, and to conduct your own experiments!

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Why Did YOU Wake Up This Morning?
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM)* by Hal Elrod


What can we do now to ensure that we don’t end up struggling?


Whose life am I going to save today?
Choose Yourself!* by James Altucher


1. What are your values
The Power of Less: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential…in Business and in Life* by Leo Babauta


2. What are your goals


3. What do you love


4. What’s important to you?


5. What has the biggest impact?


6. What has the most long-term impact?


If you start today, what could your life look like in 6 months, 5 years, or 10 years?


Process your inboxes, from the top down, don’t ever skip over one. Make the following decisions; – Delete it? – Delegate it? – Deal with it immediately – reply or take action? – Defer it for later? – File it – you only need it for reference? – DO NOT LEAVE IT IN YOUR INBOX
Zen To Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System* by Leo Babauta


If you had a gun to your head or contracted some horrible disease, and you had to limit work to 2 hours per week, what would you do to keep things afloat?
Tim Ferriss http://tim.blog/2016/12/07/testing-th...


If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich*

by Timothy Ferriss


Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?


What excites me?


What 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness?


What 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?


Go through all your monthly expenses and ask yourself, “If I had to eliminate this because I needed an extra kidney, how would I do it?


What are your dreams?
David Allen http://www.keepinspiring.me/david-allen-getting-things-done/#ixzz4b0SiNGcx


How would you want to spend a Sunday afternoon 5/10 years from now?


What are your fantasies?


What would you get out of those fantasies?


What would I start doing if money wasn’t an issue anymore?
Tout le monde n’a pas eu la chance de rater ses études* by Olivier Roland


Which methods enable the clever rebels to regularly beat those results?


Which simple experiment could I start now to test one or two principles of this method?


You have started this book a month ago. How many pages have you written? How long do you work on it every day? Do you have a plan and do you know how many pages you should write every day to finish on time?


Go and see more experienced people that have already reached the goal you are after. Explain them briefly the situation and ask them: “What would you do if you were me?”


Once the first version of you product is finished, survey your customers this time. Ask them questions such as: “To you, what needs improving the most about [Product Name]?” and “Have you seen something silly the way [Product Name] works? If yes, how should it work instead?


What is the main issue, frustration, or the biggest problem you are facing at the moment?


1. What is the target condition? (The challenge)
Toyota Kata: Managing People for Improvement, Adaptiveness and Superior Results (Business Books)* Mike Rother


2. What is the actual condition now?


3. What obstabcles are now preventing you from reaching the target condition? Which one are you addressing now?


4. What is your next step?


5. When can we go and see what we have learned from taking that step?


Don’t ask yes/no questions — ask, what’s one thing we could have done differently to make your experience better?
The 3 Keys to Empowerment: Release the Power Within People for Astonishing Results* by Ken Blanchard, John P Carlos, Alan Randolph


How will your resume be different next year?


How did you manage to do this? Why was it a success?
The one I use frequently, don’t know where they come from


Which skills and methods did you use to make this project a success?


On which other process or project could you use the same skills and methods?


What have you preferred in this project, this year, lately? What do you prefer doing and why?


What are you most proud of?


What would my ideal life look like in 2017, 2018, 2030…


Becoming more proactive: in which situation, which behaviour will I improve? What am I going to do differently and why? When? How and with Whom?


What do I know? What don’t I know? Which questions do I need to ask about this subject?


Before a negociation: What does my interlocutor desires?
How to Win Friends & Influence People* by Dale Carnegie


How can I make this person do what I want him/her to do?


What can I admire from this person?


In preparation for this meeting, ask yourself some hard questions: could my opponents be right? Partly right?


Is there some truth or merit in their position or argument?


Is my reaction one that will relieve the problem, or will it just relieve any frustration?


Will my reaction drive my opponents further away or draw them closer to me?


What am I happy about in my life now?
Awaken the Giant Within : How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!* by Anthony Robbins


What am I excited about in my life now?


What am I proud about in my life now?


What am I grateful about in my life now?


What am I enjoying in my life right now?


What am I committed to in my life right now?


Who do I love? Who loves me?


Does the project produce and obvious product or service?
The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future* by Chris Guillebeau


Do you know people who will want to buy it? (Or do you know where to find them?)


Do you have a way to get paid?


What is our response? What are we going to do? How can we exercise initiative in this situation?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change*

by Stephen R. Covey


What’s really important? Why am I doing what I’m doing?


What one thing could you do (you aren’t doing now) that if you did on a regular basis, would make a tremendous positive difference in your personal life?


What one thing in your business or professional life would bring similar results?


What are the two or three most important things that I need to do today?
The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume by Josh Kaufman (2012-09-06)* by Josh Kaufman


What are the things that—if I got them done today—would make a huge difference?


Do you know how much you should Pay Yourself First?
The Automatic Millionaire, Expanded and Updated: A Powerful One-Step Plan to Live and Finish Rich* by David Bach


Do you know where to put the money you Pay Yourself First?


Are you actually doing it?


Is your Pay Yourself First plan AUTOMATIC?


How much money should you put aside in order to protect yourself against the proverbial ‘rainy day,’ and where should you put it?


Do you have a definite major purpose, and if so, what is it, and what plan have you for achieving it?
Think and Grow Rich* by Napoleon Hill


What I would do if I had a million dollars?


Have I attained the goal which I established as my objective for this year?


Have I delivered service of the best possible quality of which I was capable?


Have I delivered service in the greatest possible quantity of which I was capable?


How much time have I devoted to unprofitable effort which I might have used to better advantage?


How may I re-budget my time, and change my habits so I will be more efficient during the coming year?


If I had been the purchaser of my own services for the year, would I be satisfied with my purchase?


To which do you devote most time, thinking of success, or of failure?


Are you gaining or losing self-confidence as you grow older?

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