The Big Switch: It's never too late

by John Thomas

This is a negative question. You ask yourself a negative question and your brain will respond with a negative answer. If you don’t believe me, look at your answer. You said that you deserved it. You see, how it works? I asked you a negative question and you gave me a negative answer. The problem is that we — on a daily basis — bombard ourselves with a number of such negative questions. I think your mind is loaded with such negative questions at the moment. And you need to get rid of them. Always remember this — negative questions result in negative answers and negative answers take us into a negative state of mind.” “Whoa! I had no idea about this,” Keith said. “And what about the second question? How was it different?” “The second question — as you might already have guessed — was a positive question. I asked you what can be done to save the situation. Instead of asking you why it happened, I was interested in knowing what you can do to get over it. The question calls for some positive action. Hence, it is a positive question. And see, you gave me a positive answer. I am not saying it was the best answer. But it was a positive one for sure. You said that forgetting about the problem might solve it. Whenever you ask yourself a positive question, the problem-solving thought process begins in your mind. And if you keep at it for long enough, you will definitely have