Ask Yourself A Powerful Question & Watch How Your Brain Answers

The human brain loves to answer questions. It provides evidence for the answer it gives.  Consider this question, why am I so fat? I asked myself that many times and my brain ALWAYS had a negative answer and proof for me

• You eat too much
• You’re lazy
• You can’t stick to a diet

Your brain is designed to answer any question you give it. Ask it a negative question and it will give you a negative answer. The key to asking a powerful question is language.  Words matter.  If you ask yourself, for example, what can I do today to make progress in my weight loss goal?  Your brain may answer

• Make a 24-hour plan and follow it
• Take a long walk
• Leave a few bites on your plate at each meal 

I’ve put the powerful question practice into my life in a four-step process. I pick a goal or two for the month and use this process for each goal.  Asking the powerful over and over keeps my brain focused on the goal.

4 Steps To Powerful Questions

1. Determine the goal I want to achieve – for example, lose 10 lbs. 

2. Craft a question with positive language that will produce the actions I need to take to achieve my goal. For example: What steps do I need to take today to lose 10 lbs. this month?

3. Ask the question often and write down what my brain answers with.  I ask myself multiple times daily, in the morning, during the day, and before bed. I’m often amazed at the answers my brain presents.

4. Take action! Do what my brain tells me to do.  It knows the answer!

I often use a powerful question when presented with an obstacle that comes up.  Here’s an example from yesterday.  My cousin called and invited me to join her family for dinner last minute.  I knew what she was serving was not on my plan, but I really wanted to go to see my family.  I asked myself this powerful question, how will I go to her house and not eat the off-plan food?  The answer my brain came up with…tell them you’ve already eaten and just wanted to come visit.  That’s the action I took.  I enjoyed visiting and then came home and ate my planned dinner.  

Practice asking powerful questions and be sure to take action on the answers your incredible brain provides.