Get Unstuck Now

Here are 37 awesome questions guaranteed to shake up your thinking, get you unstuck, and moving forward. I highly encourage you to give them a try your self on any problem you are facing, or feel free to use them with your clients.

 

 

• What is the problem?

 

 

 

• A problem well stated is a problem half solved. So, please tell me, how, specifically, it is a problem for you now? I’m looking for the root of it. You’ll know you’ve found the root when you feel a swell of emotion when you think about that one thing. Dig deeper until you find it by asking yourself, “how is this a problem for me now?” over and over until you get there.

 

 

 

• What are you telling yourself about why this is a problem?

 

 

 

• What feelings are you focusing on?

 

 

 

• Are you focusing on the past, present or future?

 

 

 

• Is your focus on yourself or on others?

 

 

 

• Who/what are you blaming for the problem?

 

 

 

• When you are totally honest with yourself, what other excuses are you making?

 

 

 

• Just out of curiosity, what would happen if you decided to take full responsibility for the situation, even if it’s not your fault?

 

 

 

• If you did that now what would be different?

 

 

 

• How would that make you feel?

 

 

 

• How would that impact others?

 

 

 

• What else would change?

 

 

 

• What’s stopping you from doing that now?

 

 

 

• What would you need to change within yourself to be able to move forward now?

 

 

 

• If you could design an outcome that would be mutually beneficial, in the long run, for everyone involved, what would that look like?

 

 

 

• What emotions would you feel if you were able to pull that off right now?

 

 

 

• What would you tell yourself if you could do it?

 

 

 

• What would other people say about you?

 

 

 

• Now that you’ve explored the possibilities a bit more, what’s one thing you could do differently that would help the situation?

 

 

 

• What are your top values?

 

 

 

• How does this situation align with your top values?

 

 

 

• How does it not align with your top values?

 

 

 

• By not sorting out this problem, which of your values are you compromising?

 

 

 

• How many ways do you think you know to overcome this?

 

 

 

• What change are you willing to consider making?

 

 

 

• What would happen if you did make the changes?

 

 

 

• What would happen if you didn’t make those changes?

 

 

 

• What wouldn’t happen if you did make the changes now?

 

 

 

• What wouldn’t happen if you didn’t make the changes now?

 

 

 

• How much do you want to move forward on this?

 

 

 

• Is this the beginning or the end?

 

 

 

• Is it a reward or a punishment?

 

 

 

• Are you going to move forward or are you going to quit?

 

 

 

• So when will you stop this from being a limitation?

 

 

 

• How many ways do you know you have solved this?

 

 

 

• What are you noticing now?

 

 

 

 

Is Your Brain Fried Yet?

Hope you loved those questions!

They’re guaranteed to get people outside of thier old way of thinking – into new territory and possibilities!

 

Join the Conversation

What question(s) have you found the most helpful to motivate yourself? Your clients?