The quality of our lives is in direct proportion to the quality of the questions we ask ourselves.

Questions can have a positive or negative effect.

If we want better answers in our lives we have to be prepared to search and ask ourselves better questions.  Questions are the source of change.  What are the questions that you really need to put to yourself to discover a life change?  Questions control our focus and our focus controls our outcomes.  Whatever we are experiencing in life is not based on life itself but what we are focusing on.

If we want to change our focus, we have to change the questions that we ask ourselves.  Why me?  If you don’t know, then surely no one else will.  Better questions need to be asked.

Whatever you ask for, you will get an answer to.  If you want a great life, ask great questions.  Questions empower you.  Good questions form the catalyst to more good questions.  Questions are inspirational, questions can be new start,  questions can simply be something better.  Life is a self fulfilling prophecy and seldom do we exceed our expectations.

When you ask yourself questions, it is a starting point for new beginnings, the better the questions the more you trust yourself to finding answers.  The golden rule – you will never make a mistake by asking yourself a question.

My favourite question – Where do you draw the line between POSSIBLE and IMPOSSIBLE?

I am about to board a plane to Queenstown and although I do not think about it much I am going to be putting my life in the hands of one company, one plane, and hopefully two pilots.  The reason why I don’t think about much is because 99.99% of flights land safely in a track record that is unrivaled by any other industry.

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Questions.

Where do you draw the line between possible and impossible?

How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were?

Do you let yesterday use up too much of today?

When will you ever have more time than you do right now?

When we talk about resources for leaders in economic terms three usually come to mind:  labour, capital and land.  There is a fourth resource that may be considered for an individual to be far more important – that of  TIME.  

Time management experts have developed a model which helps prioritise leadership activities and to make the use of time more effective.  This is broken up into the areas of Important and Non-Important, Urgent and Non-Urgent.   On the left hand side of the quadrant graph is the area that effective leaders spend their time.  The area on the right hand side of the graph is potentially the leader who is run by crisis management.  Lets take a closer look at the left hand side of the graph:

Urgent and Important:  There activities are deadline driven, importance based on consistency, potentially demanding problems, response to a specialised area with the business.  This area of the quadrant should take up 40% of a given week.  These activities are generally prioritised first, however they can cause stress because they sit in a time sensitive zone.

Important, but Not Urgent:  There is no doubt that the best leaders spend the most amount of time in this area of their business.  It includes preparation and planning, execution of projects, crisis prevention, long term diary management, recruitment and skill improvement.  Whenever a leader in a business is undertaking these activities they can focus on the future successfully and begin to prioritise the direction of the business. 

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