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Friday, March 28, 2014

43 Leading Questions to Ask Yourself Every Day to Live a Better Life (and a few other tips)

My intention for sharing these questions with you are to guide you toward feeling better and having more experiences that you want. Why are questions important? Because you always receive answers and the quality of your questions will determine the trail of answers that you receive.  If you’re asking troubling questions or if you’re asking questions that consistently don’t feel good to you, you’re forging a path to more that doesn’t feel good and to more troubling questions to be asked. 

You can be focused on possibility and opportunity or you can be focused on lack and limitations.  The essence of your questions determines what flows in.

We can all get caught up in asking the questions that don’t feel good; those that keep us focused on things that we perceive as going wrong, or that feel off.  When we do that, more that feels wrong or unjust keeps being in our experience.

I’ve compiled a list of 43 leading questions that you can ask yourself every day that lean you to answers you’re going to like.  Ask them.  Every day.  

Ask them most when you're already feeling good and not when you're focused on something that's seemingly not working out for you

Otherwise, they'll just piss you off.  

Write them out.  Don’t demand answers right away.  If nothing changes, keep asking them.  Give it time.  Give yourself time to adjust to where these questions are leading you.  Let the answers be revealed to you. 

Print them out.  Look at them.  Read them.  Ask them of yourself and others. 
  
·         How much fun can I have?
·         How flexible can I be?
·         How much can I be surprised and delighted now, now, now, now, now?
·         How good can I feel?
·         How easy can it be?
·         How much can I allow?
·         How much love can I feel?
·         How much appreciation can I feel?
·         How good can it get?
·         How playful can I be?
·         How abundant can I feel?
·         How roarsome can I feel?
·         How much roarsomeness can I allow?
·         How much abundance can I allow?
·         How proud can I feel?
·         How delighted can I be?
·         How excited can I feel?
·         How eager can I feel?
·         How in-love can I feel?
·         How fascinated can I feel?
·         How interested can I feel?
·         How much pleasure can I feel?
·         How much can I revel?
·         How rewarded can I feel?
·         How much can I feel Source right here with me?
·         How much goodness can I allow?
·         How much fun can I bring to today’s party?
·         How much joy can I feel?
·         How happy can I feel?
·         How much well-being can I allow?
·         How much well-being can I feel?
·         How taken-care-of can I feel?
·         How special can I feel?
·         How embraced can I feel?
·         How generous can I feel?
·         How eager can I feel?
·         How invincible can I feel?
·         How much clarity can I allow?
·         How knowing can I feel?
·         How much positive expectation can I feel?
·         How much beauty can I see and feel?
·         How much better can it get?
·         How much better can I let it be?

In addition to asking yourself these questions, here are some things you can do every day, in terms of directing and leaning your mood and attitude.  

Why does this matter?  

Because your mood and attitude determine the quality of your life.  
Your mood and attitude affect your perspective and your perspective is everything.  
Your perspective is your point of attraction.  
Your perspective is what you’re living.  
Do you need more reasons than that?!? ;)

Do these things every day:

·         Look for points of harmony vs. disharmony or wrongness
·         Look for pros vs. cons
·         Look for benefits vs. detriments
·         Look for positive aspects vs. negative aspects
·         Look for ways to appreciate vs. ways to criticize
·         Look for likes vs. dislikes
·         Look for ways to make the best of it vs. ways to make the worst of it
·         Look for well-being and wellness vs. sickness and deterioration
·         Look for what’s right vs. what’s wrong
·         Look for what’s going well vs. what might be going “wrong”
·         Look for what feels good vs. what feels off, or wrong or bad
·         Look for reasons to appreciate vs. reasons to complain
·         Look for reasons to love vs. reasons to hate
·         Look for reasons to compliment and praise vs. reasons to disparage and insult 
·         Look for reasons to make peace vs. writhe against
·         Look for reasons to be willing vs. unwilling
·         Look for reasons to be flexible vs. rigid

Add to these, play with these.  At first, if you’re not accustomed to directing your focus in these ways, it’ll feel hard.  It just gets easier…learning to direct your focus because of how it feels may be a new thing for you.  It’s not any different than learning a new language, or learning how to use a new computer program, or learning how to play a sport you’ve never played.  It takes practice.  It takes wanting to do it.  It takes desire for more and desire to learn it and apply it.

Let it become your new habit.