MORE Excellent Questions

Here are some examples of Excellent Questions: 

How else can I _________________?

Who do I know who might be able to help me with ________________? 

What else can I do to earn ________________?  

How many other NEW ideas can I think up to accomplish ______________?
 

Now, to be fair, none of these are specific to a problem that you’re having, and every one of them can be made MUCH better when we apply them to specific issues.  For instance: 

How much FUN could I have earning an additional $100K this year?  

The conscious mind, with its 7 chunks of familiar data, is not really all that good at solving problems.  It’s GREAT at deciding which of 2 options to take.  But it DOES like to narrow the choices down to 2.  Maybe 3 on a good day.  But with only 7 chunks available, it really does like to keep things both simple and familiar.  

The unconscious mind, however, is a FABULOUS repository of solutions.  It holds gazillions of chunks, some of which are entirely unique and have never been brought into conscious awareness before.  At the risk of sounding hackneyed, Albert Einstein became famous for having introduced a theory born entirely out of his own mind, and then set about proving it using his conscious, logical, if-then mind.  He was known for “dreaming” the solution, and advocated naps as the best response to a puzzle that seemed (to the conscious mind)  downright intractable.  It did not happen by magic.  He worked hard at the WORK part of it.  He considered math to be work, make no mistake about that.  But.  

Albert Einstein asked some Excellent Questions.  And then let his unconscious, unreasonable mind answer them.  

Richard Feynman was another glorious example of a theoretical physicist who was not especially good at math.  His graduate students routinely corrected his errors, and he pretty much counted on them to do that.  But he was exceptionally good at asking Excellent Questions.  AND at compiling teams of people who could help him prove the answers that arose from his unconscious mind in a logically consistent way.  

I would hazard a guess that a Who’s Who of creative geniuses would reveal one startling theme:  Excellent Questions.  

Excellent Questions are open-ended, but have specific AND believable goals AND an end date.  So if you’re only earning $12K right now and you have a lifelong limiting belief around how hard it is to make ends meet, that question about having fun earning another $100K this year is probably too much of a stretch to stay within the bounds of credibility.  

I’m not saying your unconscious mind wouldn’t answer it. I’m saying you wouldn’t stick with ASKING it.  

So here’s the catch:  You have to know HOW to pose an Excellent Question, and then have the patience to let the solution come to YOU.  And the faith to believe that it will.  

The patience and the faith are manageable IF you ask the Excellent Question that fits your current model of the world and do the groundwork on overcoming that pesky “money is hard to come by” belief.  It’s not.  LOTS of people find money just lying around WAITING to be picked up by a good idea.  You are perfectly capable of a good idea.  In fact, you already have quite a few of them.  They’re just having a hard time finding their way into one of those precious 7 chunks of consciously held data.  

Now, the truth is that a LOT of the answers you receive will not be excellent answers.  Keep asking.  Don’t *try* to answer it.  Just ask.  Every day.  Ask your Excellent Questions and allow your unconscious mind to answer.  You can feel free to discard the obviously irrational ones.  The unconscious mind is not known for rationality, and that’s okay.  You’re just brainstorming with yourself and there are NO bad answers.  Be playful with it.  And patient.  Answers WILL come, often in the form of inspiration as you’re walking down the sidewalk on some entirely unrelated mission.  (And there’s a perfectly GOOD neurological reason why that walking thing has a way of popping Excellent Answers into your conscious awareness, but that’s another blog post.  For now, we’ll stick with the basics.)

Put your Excellent Question on a post-it note where you’ll see it every day.  Then relax.  Get happy.  Do something that pleases you; something that takes you one small step closer to your stated goal(s).  And be aware that an Excellent Question has MORE than one answer.  You can keep that post-it note where it is for a long time if you’re building a business or dealing with a major life issue.   A well-formed Excellent Question can provide answers over and over again because their is no known limit to what the unconscious mind knows, what connections it can make between seemingly unrelated items, and what sorts of metaphors and signals it can use to emerge into conscious awareness.  

If you’re not getting the answers you want, ask a better question.  If you’re not getting the questions you want, ask Hypnosis Frederick.  We can help.   

Strategic Growth Coaching is a very specific sequential process that teaches you the step-by-step techniques and strategies for overcoming limiting beliefs, asking GROWTH questions, and structuring the how-to’s around the answers YOUR unconscious mind provides.  At Hypnosis Frederick, we believe – no, we KNOW – that you were born unlimited, and you haven’t changed a bit.  

Your greatest obstacles are ALWAYS your greatest gifts.  If you’re not seeing the gift, ask a better question.  Hypnosis Frederick can teach you how.