Who Controls Your Success? Your Mind Does. The vast majority of people don't have control over their mind ask themselves poor questions, consequently never achieve the heights of success they desire. Use these tips to take Control and Attract Even More Success into Your Life
Your success is controlled by your thoughts.
Do you have control over your thoughts? Sadly, the vast majority of people don't.
The quality of the questions you ask yourself and the quality of your answers will dictate the degree of success and fulfillment in your life.
When something goes wrong or you are met with a challenge what thoughts immediately enter your mind? For many, many people they are de-energizing thoughts and questions that sound something like this:
De-energizing questions trap you where you are (or in your history), they tend to be backward focused, defensive, dis-empowering.
If you find yourself guilty of regularly using a repertoire of questions similar to those above, then ...
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So how are these questions serving you? Are these de-energizing questions helping you to move forward in life, toward achieving what you want?
To power-fill your life you need to focus on asking energizing questions. Energizing Questions sound like:
Energizing Questions are forward moving, forward focused ... they send you down a path of looking for solutions that are energizing and empowering.
They have a positive impact on your attitude, energy, feelings and performance.
If you are responsible for leading and/or influencing others then Energizing Questions are a very useful tool to add to your toolkit. They enable you to inspire people to focus on possibilities rather negativities.
Here are the principles in asking/developing great energizing questions (whether you are using them on yourself or on others):
If you, or the people around you are, are not being as successful as you want, then Energizing Questions can be a great place for you to start to turn things around.
What you focus on is what you will receive, I promise!
Growth Opportunity
1. Identify the primary questions you ask of yourself and others - are they Energizing or De-Energizing Questions?
2. Listen to the questions you hear others around you asking - are they Energizing or De-Energizing Questions?
3. If they are focused on de-energizing what can you do to help yourself and others to shift your thinking toward more of what you do want, rather than what you don't want?
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