QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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Welcome to Lifebuilder! Questions are an incredibly powerful tool for personal growth as they prompt us to direct our attention within, where all the answers to all the questions we could ever ask lie. In this week's edition, we talk about why questions really are the answers, then present a hypothetical situation to which you will probably relate, and ask how you would react in this situation so that your hypothetical reaction can reveal aspects of yourself that you may not be in touch with at the moment. 

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Contents

Questions are the Answers

The depth and quality of your questions determines the answers you will get in life. Questions really are the answers to all the problems we experience in life. However, most of us have been conditioned to ask 'Why me' questions arising out of a victim consciousness, such as:   "Why won't my boss give me a raise?"
                                                "Why doesn't anyone listen to me?" 
                                                "Why am I always the one who seems to get the blame for anything?" 
                                                "Why do bad things always happen to me?"

This is why we get fairly banal answers that do not reveal much about life or ourselves and keep us locked in the same repetitive and negative patterns of thought and behaviour that lead to the same poor results we have always experienced, causing the belief that this is just how life is to become even more deeply ingrained in us. 


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Albert Einstein said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result, yet most people do exactly this their whole lives and then maybe finally wonder on their death- beds what it was all for. Instead of waiting until you are on your death-bed to ask questions like this, why not ask them now? Imagine if you asked and answered for yourself questions such as: 

"Why do I / does my organisation exist?"
"What is my / my organisation's purpose within this world?"
"Why is there so much conflict and unhappiness in my life / organisation?"
"Why do I fear life and everything so much?"

Questions really are the answers! Ask yourself these questions and answer them for yourself and you will transform your life. If you feel like you need some help doing this from someone who has asked and answered these questions for himself, click here. 


A Hypothetical Situation

Following is a hypothetical situation (written as part of a quiz that will appear in 'Me!' Magazine later this year, incidentally) to show you the transformative power of questions. Imagine you are in the following situation, which you should relate to if you have ever worked in the corporate world, and ask yourself how you would react or respond to every element of the situation:

You have to complete a major proposal you have been working on for months for a large existing client that would be worth millions to your firm and present it to them at 10 am the next day for their final decision. There are two other companies trying to win the client’s business that will also be given an opportunity to present their proposals to the client after you do. 

The hard-driving and impulsive MD of your company arranged a meeting two days earlier with the client to present the proposal at 10 a.m. the following day without consulting you first. He then gave you the responsibility for preparing and presenting it. He has also made it clear that your future in the company depends on this deal being clinched - if you do not get the contract and he feels it’s your fault, which he generally does with other people when things don’t go as he wants them to, you will be fired or demoted, but if your firm gets the business, you will be promoted and earn twice as much as you currently do, have a larger office and various other benefits of your higher position. 

It’s now 4 p.m. and you have been working virtually around the clock with 2 people for the last two days to complete the proposal. There is still a huge amount of work to be done if the proposal and presentation is to be finished in time. Your husband / wife does not believe that you should work all the over-time you do and you know he / she will be upset if you do not come home because you work through the night to try and finish the proposal. 

The one person with whom you are working on the project, who reports to you and whose continued input you feel is critical to finishing the proposal and presentation properly, has said she is not staying after 5 p.m. as she has a family dinner to celebrate a very important religious festival that evening. You have a good relationship with her. The other person is the assistant to the Financial Director and does not report to you in terms of the firm’s functional management structure and whose help you also feel is vital if you are to be ready to present the proposal the next morning, as you need someone to help you with the costings for the proposal, says that his wife is away and he has to be home to baby sit their young son, as he cannot find a baby sitter. Your relationship with him is somewhat strained, as you do gel with his rather stiff personality and there has always been tension between the Finance Department and your department, the Marketing Department. 


In the next edition of Lifebuilder, we will ask a number of questions about the various elements of this situation and have three responses to that element you can choose from. We will then help you interpret the responses you choose to gain more insight into yourself from your behaviour in this imagined situation so that in similar 'stressful' situations that may arise in your life in future (and arise they will, you can be sure!), you are more able to choose your response consciously. Please save this email in a folder somewhere so you can re-read the hypothetical situation we have created in two weeks time and get the maximum benefit from the quiz. Until then, remember to ask the right questions! 

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