What are Useful Questions for Self Coaching: Tips Video

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Hi, this is Julie Silfverberg here of Success Partners. Today’s video is about, when you are faced with a challenge. What are the kind of question you’re inclined to ask yourself, are they the sort of questions that are the most useful for you?

What I suggest you do with this video is: Think of a problem or a challenge you have and listen to me as I ask you two different sets of questions. I’ll ask you one set of questions and when I’m through with that, just notice how you feel about your challenge or your problem. Then I’ll ask you the second set of questions and notice how you feel after that set.

Okay, are you ready? Think about a challenge or a problem that’s facing you right now, so that you make it useful for yourself. So here are the questions:

• What’s wrong?
  
• Why do you have this problem?
  
• What caused this problem?
  
• How has this problem limited you?
  
• How long have you had this problem?
  
• How does it cause you to fail?
  
• Whose fault is it?
  

Okay so that’s the first group of questions, just register and notice how you feel. Okay, let that go now.

Now again an alternative set of questions and just again, think of your challenge or your problem and start afresh.

• What do you want instead?
  
• How can you get your outcome?
  
• How do you know when you have it?
  
• What resources do you have right now that helps you achieve your outcome?
  
• When you get what you want, how do you know?
  
• When you are there, how does your life improve?
  
• What do you need to do to begin getting what you want?
  
• What’s the first step?
  

And just notice how you feel now with regard to your problem or challenge. Notice how you feel different now. I suspect you feel much more positive about the challenge after the second set of questions. And if you do just notice what are the sort of questions that you ask yourself when posed with a problem, do you tend to go to the first lot of questions or the second group of questions. If the first lot then I suggest you experiment with using the second group of questions more frequently. You can play this video to yourself many times to help you get that.

So that’s given you a little experience of how I work with coaching, if you found the second group useful you why not think about giving me a call…you might as well do it today. Looking forward to seeing you the next time.

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