WHY? …..ARE YOU AFRAID
Posted on May 11, 2012 by Pauline Haynes, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
Need answers to your Why? Challenged? Insecure? Want solutions?
What is the burning question on your mind today?
Is it mundane, or does it have to do with something more esoteric?
Or is it about challenges you are experiencing in your personal life?
Or is about solving the problems of the world?
Whatever those questions may be, perhaps one way to go about finding answers, or solutions is to first really focus on the question. Make absolutely certain you are asking the right question, or rather make sure it is phrased in such a way that it will allow you to reach the place you need to – get the answer.
Often we are so plagued with questioning that we get foggy.
No focus! Scattered! Unsure!
Think of a child asking the perpetual why. Why? Why? Why? Every answer the child is given is followed by another why. That is obviously the way a child learns, it is also because the reasoning is not fully developed, so whatever the answer, the child does not focus on the answer, just on more questions. That’s how we learn and grow. We ask questions.
There is something inherently right with questioning. In fact questioning is a good thing. A very good thing! It is about getting clarity. About the outcome you desire. Questioning will bring about answers. The best answers. Sometimes….sometimes even solutions! Imagine that!
Confusion is a good place to begin.
Think of a jigsaw puzzle….. when the pieces are all in a pile, it seems like utter chaos, then slowly as the pieces are assembled and re-assembled, there’s an “aha moment.” The picture develops In the perfect way it was designed to be.
The same is true of how our minds begin to see a problem. Cloudy, cluttered, chaotic, unmanageable, disastrous, confusing. In total disarray! Until…. little by little, one step at a time…clarity comes to us.
Perhaps it could be sooner, if we take the time to be still. To push out all external influences – noises, maybe mind chatter, then focus. For some getting to clarity could be even more confusing. But like I said, confusion is a good place to begin. It pushes you to get creative.
They may begin with a white board, paper, or sticky notes, on which all the ideas that come from the so called problem is poured out in no logical order, just offloading.
After it is off loaded, (like the puzzle), then the building can begin to take place.
One brick at a time. One thought at a time. One piece of the puzzle at a time. One idea at a time. One issue at a time. One solution at a time……
Why?
Why not?
