Why do we need to go to the doctor?
Why do we need to see a psychologist?
Why do we need to visit an advisor?
Have you gone to the dentist and they ask you questions like, “how often do you floss?”, “do you feel any discomfort?”, “what toothpaste do you use?”
Why not simply ask yourself the questions you know the professionals will ask you. (And answer them yourself too?) For all answers that you can’t find on the internet, let it be a challenge for you to find the answer.
Ask yourself the hard questions too. The deep questions. The questions that would make you open up, but this time, to yourself.
To be straight forward with my underlying point, asking and answering questions to yourself is to set yourself up to always answer questions other people ask. There are hundreds of truly phenomenal and interesting questions that we are asked, but we never answer them because we feel they are somewhat rhetorical.
What do you want?
What impact do you want to make?
What will be your legend?
How are you going to get there?
What are you truly grateful for? (recommend asking daily)
What help do you need?
Most commonly found in speeches, the questions go ignored. We continue to listen to the point of the question, never to find it. To find the answer, we have to search ourselves, we have to provide the answer.
Next time you get asked a question that you sort of think is rhetorical. Answer it. Invest the time to think it through. Only then will you realize the impact and importance of not only asking the question (to yourself and to others), but to answering it.
Stay Positive & Answer Away
Garth E. Beyer
