Self-Care Tool #9 Ask a Great Question Every Day We all ask ourselves questions all day long, “How can I get this done?” “What am I going to eat today?” “When will I be skinny?” “Why is my life is so hard?” In coach- ing, questions are the tools we use to change our lives. By asking high-quality, empowering questions, we get creative and inspiring answers. It is like your brain goes to work searching for the answers to what you are presenting. If you ask, “How can I be happier?” your brain comes back with wonderful ideas. If you don’t close the door with answering, “I don’t know,” you will find a source of wisdom within you that you might not have known existed. The higher quality the question, the higher quality the answer will be. If you ask yourself why you can’t lose weight, you will come back with a slew of very negative self-defeating answers. You have incorporated a negative belief into the question and your brain will be sent to task to prove the negative belief correct. Your brain is a very powerful tool that is able to do just that. It may come back with: “You don’t have willpower, you don’t have enough time, you don’t care enough.” But, if you change the question to incorporate an empowering QaXe MoD1sel+ \1oDC by PaXing Ca1e ! A72