Ask Better Questions

Here's an excerpt from the tail end of another blog by Dave Navarro, an excellent companion piece to the previous post.  In this post he details a framework of seven questions to ask yourself when you feel stuck in a mood you don't want. 

The beauty of going through this guided self-inquiry is that it takes the emotion out of our situation and gives us direction to simply act.  Not only that, but the process itself pre-supposes a workable course of action.
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The quality of your life revolves around the quality of the questions you ask yourself on a minute-by-minute basis.

• If you ask yourself, "Why me?" or "What can I possibly do?", you're going to be paralyzed.
  
  
• If you ask yourself, "What can I do next, from where I am, with what I have?", you're going to put yourself in a position of strength.

Ask better questions.  Train yourself to be the sculptor of your own moods, rather than being tossed about by urgency and externalities you can't control.

You can do it.
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