Everyday Questions for Success: LD Leadership Development, #3

By Linda DeLuca

Asking the right question at a the right time changes everything.

This book includes access to bonus material!

Powerful questions are used by business leaders, consultants, coaches and project managers to solve problems, move work forward, overcome obstacles, grow their businesses and their people.

Now you have, in this collection, the power of those same questions to move you and your business forward.

For more than 25 years Linda DeLuca has been collecting and using these powerful questions as she manages projects, consults businesses, facilitates significant change, and moves her own coaching practice and business forward.

Whether you want to challenge yourself with one question a day, or get a boost forward in a specific situation, these questions will help you grow yourself, your team, and your business.

Includes more than 365 questions for daily challenges as well as questions grouped by topic: Career Change, Decision Making, Communication, Confidence, Delegating, Problem solving and more.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Linda DeLuca
• Release date: Jun 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386340232

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Part I

Everyday Questions

Following is a list of 365 questions for you to ask yourself or your team. 

Some questions are presented in a logical order while others are random. This intentional design will allow your thoughts to flow, but will challenge you before you get comfortable. 

The goal is to help you shift perspective, think deeply, and inspire you to do your best work everyday.

Daily Questions 01 - 31

What is this year’s guidepost?

How will this impact those important to you?

What are you afraid of?

What’s important here?

Does it make you happy?

What do you want?

What is the better version of you?

What's it going to take to put you in the center of your own life?

What 10 books have you read that had significant impact for you personally or professionally?

How do you describe success in this situation?

If you could go back and talk to your younger self, what would you like her/him to know?

If there were no constraints, what would you do? If you suspended doubt and worry, what action would you take?

What are you ready to commit to right now?

What are you truly committed to?

What is really important to you - rather than merely urgent? What is your underlying purpose here?

When was the last time you lost track of time? What were you doing at the time?

What are the three most important elements of a life filled with joy?

Why do you work?

What are your top three pet peeves?

What drains your energy?

What emotion do you least want to feel?

What emotion do you most want to feel?

What energizes you?

What’s the most important thing you learned from your parents? 

What unique contribution can you make?

How would you rate / describe your satisfaction with respect to: finances? Is that what you want? If not, what do you want to be different here?

What’s your vision of your lifestyle in 5 / 10 / 15 years?

What do you need to be doing 6 months / 1 year / 5 years before your vision becomes a reality?

What do you need to believe in order to turn your vision into reality?

What do you need to have done to turn your vision into reality?

What do you need to know to turn your vision into reality?

Daily Questions 32 - 59

What will it take to make your vision a reality?

What’s your vision of your professional future in 5 / 10 / 15 years?

How would you rate / describe your satisfaction with respect to: work? Is that what you want? If not, what do you want to be different here?

What type of things can you do to close the gap? Reduce the difference?

How would you rate / describe your satisfaction with respect to: family? Is that what you want? If not, what do you want to be different here?

How would you rate / describe your satisfaction with respect to: friends/social? Is that what you want? If not, what do you want to be different here?

How would you rate / describe your satisfaction with respect to: health? Is that what you want? If not, what do you want to be different here?

How would you rate / describe your satisfaction with respect to: spirituality? Is that what you want? If not, what do you want to be different here?

What things do you like or dislike in each area of your life/business?

What are you doing now to shape your life tomorrow?

What's missing from this picture so far?

What 5 items would you put on your bucket list?

Where are you along your plan?

What bothers you most in the world?

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

What's your biggest hope or dream?

What do you really want - specifically?

How can you make what you want achievable?

How will things (your life, your interactions, your thoughts, your behaviors) be different once you have what you want?

How will you know when you’ve got what you want?

If you could do (whatever you've regretted) over, what would be different?

What do you regret? How can you avoid that specific regret in the future?

What makes you uncomfortable? Is there something to learn from that?

What do you think will happen if you say no to this request?

What’s the cascading effect of saying no?

What’s the cascading effect of saying yes?

What do you want to be different next (week / quarter / year)?

What do you need to be thinking / doing / feeling / saying differently to make that a reality?

Daily Questions 60-90

How do you want them to behave differently?

Why don't you say something?

Why don't you do something?

What’s the elephant in the room for this meeting / conversation / project / decision? 

How are you measuring success?

Is there a better way to measure success or progress?

What has changed since you chose that measure of success? Is it still relevant?

What are you feeling right now?

What triggered this feeling?

Why do you feel this way?

What recurring thoughts are you having?

How are these thoughts impacting your decision-making, behavior, focus, productivity, or happiness?

What do you know so far about the situation?

What do you