The power of questions

Morning everyone

Have you ever stopped to consider how awesome the power to ask questions is?

One of the main ways that we learn anything is from attaining answers to questions that we ourselves have posed.

As children, we are blessed with an unlimited supply of curiosity that drives us to constantly ask questions. "But why?" is the favourite choice of words from so many young children who are beginning to find their way in life.

The sad thing is that as we get older , our will to ask questions seems to diminish for so many of us as we get busy surviving day to day.

I would like us all to reflect on a few questions about our power to ask questions.

1) How many questions do we ask daily?
2) who do we ask these questions to?
3) What benefit do we get from the answers?
4) What information are we lacking because of the failure to ask questions?
5) who can answer these questions?
6) when is the best time to ask?
7) What has stopped us asking until now?
8) who is to blame for my ignorance?

I would like to end this post with a couple of quotes and a short reflection of my own on the quotes.

1) knowledge is power.

2) knowledge is a lock and it's key is the question.

Power is one of the most sought after and admired things in the world and yet the key to its lock is available to each and every one of us, but we don't care to utilise it.

I hope that you have enjoyed reading this and it has inspired you to ask more and better questions.

I will hopefully be back in the next week or so with a new entry.

The power to chart your daily activities

Morning everyone.

Have you ever planned to start a simple new habit like eating a piece of fruit every day, but found yourself failing to keep it going for longer than a few days?

This has happened to me countless times. I have always ended up frustrated and disappointed with myself. This is because most habits I have sought to make a part of my life are easy to do, but also easy to skip as well.

Just over a week ago, I purchased a white board and white board markers. I used a permanent marker to create a 10 by 7 grid and on the left hand side of the grid I put the days of the week. Across the top, I put in the 10 habits that I want to be measuring myself on daily.

Each day, if I do the task, I put a green tick in the grid. If I fail, I put a red x. What I have found over the last week that I have been using this chart is a lot of green ticks.

It has led to both increased productivity as well as greater happiness.

I hope that I have the discipline to maintain the using of the chart.

It is a system that I would recommend to everyone. It takes very little time to set up and maintain and could help focus your day to day activities beautifully.

I hope that you have found this post useful. I will hopefully be back in the next week or so with another post.

The power to reflect

Readers,

How often do we utilise our power to reflect?

Too many of us are too busy surviving day to day without ever taking time out to actually ponder
upon life's most important questions.

Where did we come from?
What happens to us after we die?
Are we going to be held accountable for our actions?
How are we supposed to know how to live our lives?
How are we supposed to know if we are living successful lives?
What is the barometer for success and failure?
How do I even know that my barometer for success and failure is correct?
Is everyone free to make their own barometer for success and failure?
What if I have thought about these things and come up with the "wrong " answers?
What about if I haven't even bothered to think about them and the whole point of my existence
was to reflect on them?

Life is very short and very important. We only get to live once so it's imperative to do it right! If we get it wrong, we have to live with the consequences forever thereafter.

Be thankful for the opportunity to reflect and utilise this most important gift that has been
bestowed upon us.

Remember that there are multiple
religions with multiple sects within each religion. It may not be
possible to study them all. However it ought to be the goal of every seeker of truth to explore the
world religions with as an open mind as possible in the hope of finding a way of life that
brings about peace, hope, tranquility and the confidence to be able to defend your beliefs if and when
we are questioned and/or challenged about them by the creator who bestowed upon us the
power to reflect.