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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
by ken winston caine
The questions you ask and choose to explore shape the outcomes you achieve. The trick is to ask powerful questions.
They cut to the chase. They move you forward quickly and smartly.
Asking powerful questions is at the heart of “coaching” as it was developed by Thomas Leonard. And I’ve been collecting lists of powerful questions, or coaching questions, for 11 years — ever since I was first exposed to Leonard’s approach.
But simply being armed with a mile-long list of powerful questions does not make one a good coach. Or guarantee you magnificent, rapid, sustainable personal success. The good coach and the smart achiever know how to ask the right type of question at exactly the right moment.
Better, I think, to understand what a powerful question is, so that you can instinctively pose one when it is needed, than to have a long list of questions to sort through. (Though a list is valuable.)
So what is a powerful question?
The best explanation I have come across comes not from the world of life coaching or business coaching or corporate coaching, but from pioneers of The World Cafe process, Juanita Brown and David Isaacs.
They write, on their website, that a powerful question has eight defining characteristics: (more…)
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Tuesday, June 26th, 2007
by ken winston caine
What if love is all there really is, and everything else is an illusion?
What if love is the only thing that is real, and everything else is a distracting illusion?
What if love is the glue that binds the universe together… Has no beginning, has no end… No alpha, No omega, Simply is, always has been and always will be?
And what if your single highest purpose — and most difficult challenge — is to find love, connect with love, express love, be love, resonate at the frequency of love in every situation you encounter?
Ask yourself:
If I knew this was true, how would it change things?
Even if you don’t believe this is true, pretend for a moment that it is.
And ask yourself: (more…)
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Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Mr. President:
Three years ago you declared “Mission Accomplished.”
Two years ago we were in “the final throes of the insurgency.”
Last year we “re-deployed to secure Baghdad.”
None of these proclamations proved to be true. None of these efforts proved to be effective.
Now, we are told, you are proposing we escalate this war that you committed us to enter under the false (more…)
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
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Ever have trouble choosing your guiding values from one of those lists of 150 values?
And then narrowing it down to 5 or 10?
How ’bout if we take most of the difficulty out of it?
Conductor and composer Douglas Wagoner has done that. He’s automated the process. It’s online. Free.
You still start off with a list of 150. But then it gets easier.
Try it here: (more…)
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Monday, August 21st, 2006
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What if you made an agreement with yourself to ALWAYS honor your intuition?
No matter how embarrassing.
No matter how puzzling.
No matter how little you — or anyone else involved — understood in the moment ( or ever) why you might be getting the instruction to do or say a certain thing.
What do you think the overall results (more…)
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2006
Love is what we are born with.
Fear is what we learn.
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts.
Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth.
To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life.
Meaning does not lie in things. Meaning lies in
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Sunday, June 4th, 2006
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
– Marilyn Ferguson
Ken Winston Caine adds:
None of us really changes until we are ready to. I’m talking about deep and significant change. Not the superficial change we make when someone beats on us and beats on us (more…)
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Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
Today’s email, from Notes from the Universe – which I highly recommend:
“If you would simply think deeply … on the things you’ve loved most about life; on the things you’ve loved most about yourself; and of the main challenges you’ve faced, whether behind you or in the moment; you will then know in an instant, beyond (more…)
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