The Power of Questions:
Things that create and/or influence your mental and emotional state fall into two categories. The first category is made up of forces created by your physiology (the way you move, what you eat, how healthy you are, etc.). The second category is made up of things that affect what you focus on. We all know you can change how you feel by changing what you focus on. In other words, if you think positive thoughts, you’ll be in a better state and you’ll get better results.
One of the easiest ways to change your thought process (what you focus on) is to change the habitual questions you ask yourself. Your thought process is a series of questions & answers. Unfortunately, most people have the habit of asking poor questions of themselves and therefore they spend their time focusing on lousy things. The result is a poor attitude, which leads to poor behaviors and poor results. Simply changing the habitual questions you ask yourself can change all this.
I have a friend who created a list of positive questions that he could rehearse every morning in the shower. They were simple questions like, “What am I most excited about?” and, “What are my goals?” He had the list laminated with a title that read, “Shower Power”. Each morning he read each question on the list and answered it. Some of the impact was immediate –– He felt much better after asking and answering the questions. But the most important benefit of his morning ritual was not immediate. The most important benefit was the habit that formed by asking and answering the questions every day. It didn’t take long before the habitual questions my friend was asking himself were those on the list. His habitual focus was much more positive than it had been. His attitude changed and it wasn’t long before he was experiencing much better results professionally.
Another example of this can be found with Sir John Templeton, founder of the Templeton mutual funds, one of the greatest investors of our time, and one of our world’s self-made billionaires. In an interview I was present for, Mr. Templeton stated that he attributes much of his success to a little game that he and his wife played for 50+ years. The game consisted of asking each other the same question every morning and not allowing one another to leave the house until the question was answered five new ways. The question was “What are you grateful for?” He said with tremendous certainty, “I believe that the foundation of wealth is gratitude. If you habitually ask and answer the question ‘What am I grateful for?’ you feel wealthy. When you feel wealthy, you make decisions that lead you to wealth.”
What would happen if you created a list of positive questions and made sure that these questions became the habitual questions you ask on a daily basis?

Jason McComb <newsletter@tdogs.com>