Years ago, I learned a really good life hack. It was a simple way to immediately change the way your brain is thinking for the better. Anthony Robbins called this empowering questions, and it is a simple technique to feed your brain better food to chew on.
I really took this to this when I heard it. At the time I’d been floundering around with confusing career options and no clear direction. I tried his technique and shifted my normal-but-uninspired questions like “what should I do?” and “where do I fit?” to questions like, “what do I have to offer that people would pay for?” and “what’s a better way to do this?”
In case you hadn’t noticed, the brain has a different set of stuff to look at in each scenario. In the first approach, it tosses by a whole bunch of known stuff with an emotionally negatively charged word “should” and ideas about jamming oneself into a container. Not appealing?! No? lol
In the second approach, the brain has way more breathing space… The question about what people will pay for gets one thinking about unique/innate talents, and the question about a ‘better way’ is completely open. Your brain can fly off in literally any direction there… as long as it’s better.
So, I’ve been feeling a bit unresourceful lately… and I think it’s time to reformulate my questions to be even more compelling, fulfilling, powerful (or something). See, I’ve been wanting to write something. Something genuinely useful, helpful and powerful to women. I have always known that women on the whole are amazingly cohesive, loving forces for good, and that sometimes cultures bat them down. Maybe I’m being to narrow. Maybe I just want to empower and support good people.
So, what kind of words do good people need to move their culture into a healthier place? What do they need to know? To ponder? What artwork do they need to see to feel stronger, to become even stronger? What do I have to say, authentically, that can support good people to 1) feel supported and 2) vigorously move the world into a more evolved, non-violent society? What is a better question than that, even? (It feels a little pushy… hmm)
So, I invite you, to reformulate your daily questions into questions that make for a better brain and a better life for you straight away. And I’ll be working on the same. What is the finest evolution of the empowering question a brain can conceive of right now?
Good luck!