(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “What is my current greatest ambition?” Coaching Point: The key word is “current.” Time passes. Ambitions get satisfied. Or they don’t. Or they fade into unimportance. Remember some of the ambitions you had as a child? As a teenager? As a young adult? Where are …

(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “What did I do that was unfriendly, unsocial, or uncaring?” Coaching Point: At first glance you make not like this Great Question. It seems to be looking in the wrong direction. Its value is in being open to see yourself. Fully. Aware. We all mess …

(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “Why have a tranquil mind?” Coaching Point: A tranquil mind is not a little gift. A tranquil mind radiates peace. A tranquil mind is open to receiving inspiration, magic even. A tranquil mind acts quickly when action is called for. To develop a tranquil mind, …

(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “How can I afford it?” Coaching Point: When confronted with a need or desire to spend above a certain limit we can have a scarcity thought: “I can’t afford it” is a common knee-jerk reaction. It’s based in the past. “I can’t” is an automatic …

(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “How can I make my life simpler?” Coaching Point: Just one thing. By making one thing in your life simpler you change the trajectory of the rest of your life. Multiple small changes give outsized cumulative results. Life gets easier. Becoming easily accustomed to looking …

(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “What Is The Ugliest Thing About Me?” Coaching Point: Ugly is a word which expresses itself with the mere saying of it. We don’t enjoy the feelings evoked by the word ugly. Sure, all life is contextual including judgements of what is ugly. So I …

(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “How much is enough?” Coaching Point: Imagine hearing this question spoken with a disparaging tone. Some negative judging implied. That’s frequently the case whether it is spoken to us or by us to ourselves! Maybe it’s a conversation about deserving. Or belief in a perceived …

(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “What, in me, keeps me from being who I want to be?” Coaching Point: Answers to this Great Question are best discerned by breaking it into parts. First, start at the end – who do you want to be? Have you defined it? Have you …

(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “What have been some of the important turning points in my life?” Coaching Point: Important turning points cause change. In directions, opportunities, completions, ease, difficulty, in velocity, relationships, wealth. A turning point is such because of the noticeable change it prompts. Most ordinary events don’t. …

(Great questions lead to great answers; weak questions, weak ones.) “Why not?” Coaching Point: So often we let the littlest obstacle stop our progress. The slightest push-back. A subtle frowning disagreement. Our gut or head says go but we stop at no. Ideas have to be sold. Progress doesn’t occur in solitude. Awaking others to …