Two questions that changed Chris Gardner’s life are “What do you do” and “How do you do it”. He asked these questions form a random stock broker and the very same guy introduced him to people that opened doors for him. The first thing I learned, perhaps re-learned from Start Where You Are, is the importance of questions that we ask ourselves and the others.

Questions, The Gate Way to Heaven

Questions are probably the strongest tools we have in order to use our mind.

  • New questions can take you places you never even imagined.
  • Questions powerfully change your focus.
  • Questions can change your emotions.
  • How you ask questions form yourself determines your responses to your environment.
  • Thinking can break apart our habitual ways of thinking relieve us from the past.

As Anthony Robbins says Question Are the Answers. I cannot agree more with him.

What is Thinking Anyways?

Have you ever thought what is thinking? What do you really mean when you say I am thinking or I need to think about this or that?

Thinking is the process of asking and answering questions from yourself and to yourself. Therefore if you change you ask yourself you change the way you think, eventually you affect your behaviour and your environment.

How To Put It In To Work?

Perhaps you can start asking yourself question you haven’t ask yourself yet. Here are some of them I have found very useful.

  • What are some easy things to do that improve my life-style/health/relationships/finances that I do not do?
  • What Am I Grateful For? (If no good answer comes ask: What Could I be Grateful for If I wanted To?”
  • How do I make my life simpler?
  • What are some of the thing that enlighten me the most?
  • What could I learn to make myself happier?
  • What are some of good things in my partner/family that I haven’t been appreciative about enough?

The way I use these is that I write them down in my journal and  answer them. You might as well write them on small piece of paper and read them throughout the day. Try it for few days. Make your own questions and let me know what happens.