Questions
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Company Freedom
How many people have you met from other companies this month? The broader your network, the more options you have when you seek. — Sakfucius
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Job Freedom
The more varied skills you develop, the more options you have. What new skill did you improve this month? — Sakfucius
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New Music
Have you listened to a new artist or style of music this year? Why not stay young? — Sakfucius
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Steps
Why do people who are focused on counting steps always trying to park as close as possible to Target’s front door? — Sakfucius
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Sales is Personal
A rainmaker never leaves a prospect’s office without understanding that person’s personal agenda, the real reason he or she wants change. — Sakfucius
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Forecasts
Why do companies promote their most prolific rainmakers to roles where they watch spreadsheets and forecast sales most of the time? Promote, but keep them chasing customers.
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Aliens
Why do all our Hollywood aliens have two eyes, one nose, one mouth, and communicate with sound waves? — Sakfucius
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The Monthly Quit
What’s the one thing can you quit that would reclaim a lot of time, but not damage your longterm outlook? — Sakfucius
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Work Ethic
What’s your work ethic, because it matters a lot? — Sakfucius
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Creativity
You can’t be creative if you are afraid of being wrong. When is the last time you were wrong? — Sakfucius
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Coverup
Do you own your mistakes or do you cover them up and blame others? Only when you take ownership, you grow as a person. — Sakfucius
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Generous with Credit
How often do you celebrate and give credit to someone else? When is the last time that you took the initiative? — Sakfucius
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Better Meetings
What if you always asked the quiet participants for their thoughts during a meeting? — Sakfucius
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Meetings Improved
What if included a simple agenda to your meeting invites? What if you always sent a recap too? — Sakfucius
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Unsolicited
Do you give unsolicited advice? How often have you met a person who wanted to be critiqued, unless they asked? — Sakfucius
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Control and Stress
Ask yourself if today’s challenge is within your circles of control or influence. Don’t torpedo your attitude and efforts by focusing on aspects you can’t control or the past. — Sakfucius
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Environment
Why work in a negative environment when you are free to find a positive one? — Sakfucius
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Enthused
Assuming all are qualified, would you rather hire an enthusiastic optimist, a doubting realist, or a moody pessimist? — Sakfucius
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Freedom Test
How free are you? Are you free to do exactly what you want precisely when you want to do it? — Sakfucius
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Weekly Question
Did I really live this week or did I just exist? — Sakfucius
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Interviewing
Take your time and always ask the why behind each question if you want to land great recruits. Discern a person’s goals, logic, and attitude, not her history. — Sakfucius
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Jealousy
Does anything good ever come from being jealous of another’s success? — Sakfucius
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Perspective Change
Are you looking for problems or are you looking for opportunities? Approaching each day with the latter attitude will change your life. — Sakfucius
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Will They Miss You
If you went alway today, why would they miss you? If your company went away, why would they miss you, or would they? — Sakfucius
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Help
Who did you help this week? What if you helped someone every week? How would that change your life? — Sakfucius
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Stuff
Does having more and more and more stuff really make you happy? — Sakfucius
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Public
Why are so many people self-conscious and have inhibitions in public? When you let go, you tend to rediscover being fun. — Sakfucius
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Assist Leaders
Why are people who help their work colleagues up their game and improve their approach so rare? — Sakfucius
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Mission
What’s your mission this year? Or better yet, what’s your #1 mission this quarter? — Sakfucius
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Yes Man
What if you said yes twice as often as you now do? — Sakfucius
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Five Words 1.0
What five words does a person who knows you well use to describe you to others? It is worth finding out. — Sakfucius
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Five Words 2.0
What five words does someone who just met you once use to describe you to others? Are you making the impression you prefer to make? — Sakfucius
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Five Words 3.0
What five words would you pick to honestly describe yourself? — Sakfucius
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Fame
Why do people revere sport stars, movie and media stars, and zillionaires, yet no one can name five people who have saved hundreds of lives? — Sakfucius
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Judge
Don’t judge a man by his words, because words are easy. Judge him by his questions and his actions. — Sakfucius
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Working Out
Why do you want to lift, run, bike, or yoga? Write out the why in ink because when that is compelling, your odds improve remarkably. — Sakfucius
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Veggies
What if you decided to eat vegetarian every other day for a year? Would you be healthier and live a spry life longer? — Sakfucius
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Value
What value do you assign to your time? Knowing will help you say ‘no’ more often. — Sakfucius
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Gossip
Gossip is a destructive habit that tears communities apart. What if you made and kept a resolution to never gossip this year? — Sakfucius
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Traffic Torpedo
Does complaining about traffic help, or does it just torpedo your positivity? Why not leave a few minutes sooner? — Sakfucius
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Resist
When has someone bragged about themselves and had great outcomes? — Sakfucius
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What is Wanted
Deciphering what an other person really wants unlocks true understanding. Most people like to talk but are you asking the right questions? — Sakfucius
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Better than Newscasts
Do you watch newscasts just to get enraged about a topic that has little to no direct impact on your life? What if you limited your daily news intake to ten minutes of reading instead? — Sakfucius
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Mistakes IQ Test
Do you learn from mistakes others make, without having to go through the suffering yourself? — Sakfucius
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Think Later
Can you decide when you will think about a worrisome topic, and actually put it aside until then? If you learn how, you will reduce stress by 87%. — Sakfucius
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Traffic
What if you listened to a great podcast instead of fuming at incompetent drivers in traffic? Sakfucius
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Satisfying
What if you changed your weekend goal to satisfying and left ‘productive’ for weekdays? — Sakfucius
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Predictable Playbook
Many follow a playbook of trying to impress others by showing off everything that they own. Do you find those people impressive?
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Wasted Time
How do you waste time too often? What triggers it? How can you avoid it? — Sakfucius
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Figure It Out
If you never had to worry about money ever again, what would you do? When you know this answer, you can take steps in the right direction. — Sakfucius
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Numbers Game
Can you make new friends without meeting new people? It takes ten acquaintances to find one friend. — Sakfucius
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An Hour
What if you got up one hour early and enjoyed that hour in peace before the hassles of the day? Don’t start with the stress of running late. — Sakfucius
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Nip in Advance
What if you built your reputation as an independent thinker and a bit of a rebel? Peer pressure and embarrassment are only real if you care what a group thinks. — Sakfucius
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Getting Asked
Advice is ten times more impactful when someone asks you for it. How can you get asked? — Sakfucius
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Data-Driven Biofeedback
Is your health and fitness data-driven? When you have accurate data, it becomes easier to change, to experiment, and to understand progress. — Sakfucius
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Well Employed
Do you know what work you enjoy? How can you find employment where the company pays you handsomely to do mostly what you enjoy doing? — Sakfucius
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What Matters Most
What matters most to you? Do you live your life in balance with what matters most? — Sakfucius
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Reconnect
Who have you not called and caught up with in years? Why not catch up? — Sakfucius
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Predictions
What if you regularly predicted the 5 and 10 year future in ink? Would you get better by practicing and reviewing why you were right or wrong? — Sakfucius
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Mentor Rich
Do you have many mentors on various dimensions of life? Why not ask more people for their advice? If cultivated, some may become your mentors. — Sakfucius
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Question Timing
Socrates lived thousands of years ago yet remains well known because he asked the right question at the right time. — Sakfucius
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Generosity
When is the last time you were generous without expectations of payback or favors in return? — Sakfucius
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Watching Sports
Inquiring minds want to know: Why do millions of people spend hours watching sports? How many hours do you watch? — Sakfucius
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Laugh Out Loud
When is the last time you really did LOL laugh out loud? Why so long? — Sakfucius
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Audacious One
What one audacious goal do you want to accomplish before you die? — Sakfucius
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Just Three
If you had to tattoo three quotes onto your body that would define your life for life, what would you choose? — Sakfucius
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Gossips
What if you only surrounded yourself with people who never gossip, people who are never envious or petty? — Sakfucius
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Venture Out
Have you mastered fear of failure? — Sakfucius
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Nothing Special
Why live a life of busy work and nothing special? — Sakfucius
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Question Everything
Until you understand “why” something is, all you have is a unproven theory. — Sakfucius
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Win Debates
Deft, timely questions open more opportunities and win more debates than pontification. — Sakfucius
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Faith
Why not hedge your bets and say a little prayer? What’s the upside of believing life is just an anomaly in a cold and lifeless universe? — Sakfucius
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Make Memories
We all remember the unusual. What unusual events have you done with your family this year that will make lasting memories? — Sakfucius
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Five Years
Can you clearly visualize where you will be in five years time? — Sakfucius
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Committed
Are you 100% all-in committed to your endeavor? That is what it usually will take to win. — Sakfucius