What Questions Are You Asking?

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What questions are you asking yourself on a daily basis? What questions are you asking your spouse or your partner, your children? What questions are you asking of your team or the stakeholders in your organization? The questions you ask have tremendous power, power to lift you up and to grow your life in a positive way and to accelerate your business. Or the questions you ask might be stunting your growth, might be keeping you from moving and from transforming and might not be helping your team.

We ask ourselves so many questions every single day, some of those questions we ask internally and some of them we ask out loud. I want you to remember the power of questions. And as I was studying positive psychology with Dr. Tal Ben-Shahar at the Happiness Studies Academy, there was an entire module on questions, and it really had me sit back and think what questions am I asking myself at this point in my life, at this point in my career.

There is this very powerful exercise that organizations and teams can do called appreciative inquiry. And when you're having challenges in a part of your organization, instead of asking what's not working, what's wrong, what's broken? Leaders in the organization actually ask the exact opposite, "What is working with customer service? Where are we generating tremendous sales? How are we retaining incredible talented people?" See the difference. And with appreciative inquiry, you can do this for yourself. You can do this in your family unit, you can do this for your organization. You sit down and really think about and put pen to paper, what's working.

A great question actually, even in marriage is you could do appreciative inquiry. So once a week you can ask your spouse or your partner. You can think to yourself, what do I appreciate about that person? And you tell that person how powerful that is just appreciating what's good, appreciating what's working.

There have been incredible studies in communities. There's disadvantaged communities and psychologists and researchers have come in and instead of saying what hasn't been working over the past decade, they've said, how are some people thriving despite these challenging circumstances? What is creating an environment, an ecosystem for these people to accelerate and for these people to be successful?

So I want you to really think about the questions you're asking yourself for your career, for your personal life and ask yourself what questions you're asking of your team. How much time are you spending analyzing, and reviewing and dissecting what's going well. And when you have those answers, you then say, "How can we expand this? How can we take this knowledge and this success and grow from it."

I want you to lead this way, I want you to live this way, questions have tremendous power. So ask the right questions, and grow, and expand and become everything you want to become and take your organization to new heights. I hope you will join me every single Friday at 10:00 a.m Pacific on my YouTube channel Tia Graham Arrive At Happy for weekly tips on increasing your own happiness and success and growing your organization. If you want to learn more about my company, go to arriveathappy.com.