One Apple A Day #696 - the magic is in the question
Yesterday I was writing an article about "the daily question process" created by Marshall Goldsmith. It's a straightforward yet powerful practice to improve ourselves based on a set of active questions answered every day. You can read how and why it works here from Goldsmith himself.
This morning, while I was meditating and creating space for the seed of this post to emerge, I had a small Aha moment when my thoughts went back to the daily question process. Goldsmith does not say anything about what he does with all the answers he collects.
Every day he asks, or better he has someone asking him 32 active questions to which he answers with a yes or a no. That's a massive amount of data, but he never talks about it when he describes the process.
All that really matters are the questions. Just by asking the right questions in the right way, we can trigger a series of constructive thoughts and nurture our self-awareness. The answers are merely incidental in this process. The thoughts and the emotions that the questions spark are the real gold in this process.
And as Goldsmith says in his post, "even the process of writing questions will help you better understand your own values and how you live or don't live them on a daily basis."