In this episode, Carol Boston, the Queen of Reframe, shares how to ask the right questions to get the right answers, whether you need them for writing a book, building a business, or solving something in your personal life. You’ll discover actionable tips to crack open the universe and discover possibilities you’ve never considered that will transform your life!

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Summary

In the first of a two-part conversation with transformational, leadership coach Carol Boston, we experience firsthand why she’s been dubbed the Queen of the Reframe. It’s all about asking the questions on this episode of The Books Open Door® Podcast!

Carol describes her coaching philosophy, including an emphasis on calming heightened emotion (which correlates negatively with intelligence) and achieving clarity through disciplined inquiry. She says, “Oftentimes, we don’t know how to ask the right questions to get the answers that we want,” which is why clients walk with Carol through a mindset shift based on foundational questions that are time-bound and specific.

We all have the answers — and magic — inside. But, says Carol, access depends on changing our language, dismissing assumptions and releasing attachment to outcomes. When we are brave enough to lift the lid off our individual jars, those containers of creativity and information we all hold within, amazing insights ensue based on a deep inner. As Voltaire once said, “Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.” You’ll learn in this episode exactly why your personal, professional and financial power are determined not by what you know but what you’re willing to delve into and explore!

Key Quotes:

 “Writing a book is no different than being any other kind of an expert in the sense that you have to ask the right questions to get the right answers.” (Ellen)

“Oftentimes we don’t know how to ask the right questions to get the answers that we want.”

“Empowering questions cause you to ponder. They increase your awareness.”

“When you put (questions) out there, you’re saying you’re open to hearing, seeing, saying or doing something I’ve never thought of before.”

“You have every answer you need inside of you already. You just don’t know how to ask the right questions to get the answers.”

“An empowering question never, ever, ever starts with the word why. ‘Why’ brings in defensiveness, which brings in the ego, which brings in emotions.”

“When emotions go up, intelligence goes down. It’s true for every human being.”

Key Takeaways

• What else is possible today? Powerful questions and their caveats:
  • Specific
  • Time-bound
  • You cannot be attached to the outcome.
  • Your job is not to figure them out.
• About “aha” moments and creating them with these specific, time-bound questions:
  • Who?
  • What?
  • How?
  • (And sometimes) where?
• When you put the right questions out into the universe, you are expressing openness and a readiness to receive wisdom.
• Empowered questions never start with the word “why,” which inevitably prompts:
  • Defensiveness
  • Ego
  • Heightened emotion
• About strategies for taking emotion out of conversations – and elevating intelligence accordingly!
• Being Intentional: How we do anything is how we do everything!

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About Ellen Violette

Ellen is a multiple #1 bestselling author, award-winning book and business coach, host of the Books Open Doors® Podcast, CEO of Create a Splash/ Books Open Doors™ Author Services, and a Grammy-nominated songwriter. She works with high-achieving trainers, coaches, founders, and speakers, who want to write, publish, launch a book to #1 bestseller, and use their book to RISE to the top of their niche!  Her company also offers book marketing support. Her mission is to make the world a better place, one book at a time helping experts get more credibility, make a bigger impact, open doors to unlimited opportunities, make more money and leave a lasting legacy.

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