Asking Intelligent Questions: What Are You Really Passionate About?

Think about this for a moment or two. What if everyone on the planet took more time to ask intelligent questions? How much better could the world be? What if every sales person asked more intelligent questions? What if I asked better questions of my teenage sons? What if we asked more intelligent questions about what other people want instead of what we want?

Start making the time to record your most intelligent questions. I just offered five solid ones. Start there. Or ask, "What do I really want?" Then ask, "What will I need to sacrifice to get it?" Sorry, but that's an important follow up question to the first.

Here's one of my favorites. What are you really passionate about?

Cliff Jones-Founder and President
WealthNet Business Coaching, LLC
http://wealthnetcoaching.com

Comments

Megan McKenzie | Email | May 1, 2008 | 12:16PM
Great issue - after all, the answer is always in the question! For my small business clients - and myself at times - I ask the following two questions: "What is the vision for your life?" and "How can your business serve that vision?"

Those two questions, while often creating anxiety about the "figuring out part" and disbelief that it can be done, leads my clients to new discoveries, systems and strategies. Powerful things...questions.

As for my passion - helping others succeed through providing systems, strategies and implementation that works. I want all of the people in my life - clients, friends, family, even the local drycleaner, to experience the absolutely best life they can professionally, personally and spiritually.

Megan McKenzie
President
A Virtual Certainty
Cliff | Email | May 6, 2008 | 4:58PM
Thanks for the contribution Megan. Sounds like you share the same passion that I and the other BusinessCoach.com coaches have for serving entrepreneurs. I was listening to a Bryan Tracy program the other day and he stated that if he asked a room of people to list their top ten goals in 60 seconds or less, a shocking number of people wouldn't be able to do it. So inspiring our clients to take time to even discuss vision is a big deal. It's the starting point for the goal achieving we work towards.
Paul Simister | Email | URL | May 29, 2008 | 12:25AM
I am often disappointed with the way that many business owners live and work on a day to day basis without any long term vision or goals.

These days I tend to ask people to read the E Myth Revisited and focus on Chapters 12 and 13 Your Primary Aim and Strategic Objectives so that people get into their minds, the idea of living purposefully.
Joe Crawford | Email | URL | September 13, 2008 | 9:37AM
Right on with the e-myth. I've read each and consulted with a Woman from Vancouver B.C... That was the first I invited a person into my lonely business world. Getting a third party, objective, chunk of honest feedback was powerful. It made a huge difference. Another point and my reason for commenting is that I remember reading revisited and thinking, what an intelligent Idea. I had never really asked myself what I wanted in life or how my business might serve that vision. I felt that was maybe a bit arrogant or wrong, for whatever reason. Largly association and paying to much attention to what others were doing. Living in an intentional, thoughtful, and powerful way is really the only path to respecting life, actively.

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