Question and Question Again for Solutions
I was recently glancing over a book I had signed a few years back by Bill Mayer, author of The Magic In Asking The Right Questions. He wrote me a note in it, “Questions are the answer.”
It’s well-known that we all typically jump to answers before we’ve fully flushed out our questions. At times it’s confusing why we don’t get where we want to get when it seems we’ve thoroughly sought out solutions. Yet it’s usually because our ladder is leaning up against the wrong wall, that is, we’re answering the wrong question.
What are the right questions? The one’s that tease out your deepest desires, set your mental wheels turning and cause your heart to skip a beat, rev up your energy and feel a bit scary. Mayer’s response for the right question, “the right questions are the empowering ones.” How do you know what’s empowering for you? What lights you up, motivates you, resonates within you and feels deeply satisfying when you ask it, because you’re considering what possible outcome it could lead to?
The Thinkx model, developed by Tim Hurson, of Think Better, says to write question after question until you pass into a third level of awareness, beyond the ordinary into the silly and wild questions that would not typically arise in a first cut. It’s there your questions will eventually lead you to answers you hadn’t even considered. Don’t short change yourself. Give yourself plenty of brainstorming time before you try to neatly box up and put a bow on a solution.
If you’ve ever tried this process, what did you learn that can be beneficial to our readers?
Tags: asking the right questions, brainstorming for solutions, your deepest desires
