The Power of The “Why” Question

Ladies and gentlemen, I’m Alan Rickman, and it is with a certain digital charm that I present to you this episode of the list building lifestyle show hosted by the male market, Igor Kheifets. Today, we’re talking about personal growth and self-belief. And when we will hear a story about someone’s journey of change. In this episode, we will discover that affirmations that once believed him strongly, may not always work as magically as we hope. Instead, ego emphasizes the importance of creating opportunities using smart strategies and understanding our hidden beliefs. What makes this episode stand out is the introduction of why questions ignite. The mind serving as a powerful force that propels you relentlessly towards your goals either shares his own story of how these questions played a crucial role in his journey served our listeners, yet ready for an inspiring story that encourages you to rethink your goals, act with determination and overcome challenges. It’s an episode that goes beyond words of the late Alan Rickman would say, turn to page 394.

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I believed in affirmations when I was starting out and I was writing down this affirmation before bed. If I make $100 online, actually, you know, the first one I make I make $33.33 a day online quickly and easily. That was my first goal. And I’ve done that quite a bit. And I have at least one full notebook of pages where I wrote this every single day. Now with that said, these days, I don’t really buy into the idea of affirmations because in and of themselves, they’re not really going to convince me that this is going to happen. I like to think I like to create opportunities and apply myself or apply strategies in an environment with a reasonable chance of success, instead, meaning that ever make like sane affirmations almost implies that your bestselling does it blindly and you say the universe will align to grant me my wishes, right? What I tried to do instead these days is to figure out where I need to be? And what do I need to be doing in order to have a likelihood of success in that particular thing that I want to have. And that works better for me. But I also want to kind of circle back to the whole unconscious belief system argument that I’ve made in saying that affirmations do not fix unconscious beliefs. So, if you’ve got a belief about scarcity, for example, and your information is all about abundance, it’s not going to be effective, because it’s like peas jumping off the wall, you know, like, it’s, the belief is too strong to accept a statement. Now, if you want to, like play on affirmations, or what I’ve discovered for myself over the years, use questions. And specifically, one particular type of question: the why question, and here’s why. You see, the thing about our brain is that it doesn’t ignore a question, okay? It actually doesn’t ignore a command either. But questions are just more powerful. So, with that in mind, you can ask yourself, let’s say your affirmation is, I don’t know something about money. Like let’s say you want to do information, I make six figures a year. So, a more powerful way to start convincing your brain about that is asking yourself, what are the 10 reasons that I will make six figures a year online, or why I can’t afford to not make six figures a year online. This usually helps you kind of jump into action and start building momentum because what happens is you end up convincing yourself that it will work. You can do it and you should start getting into it. This is something that I’ve done. I remember when I was making a decision to move to Canada, and I was really procrastinating about it. And at some point, my mentor who’s an

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Ex marine and big self-development buff. He basically said, look, why don’t you make a list of 100 reasons why you want to move to Canada. Now, I didn’t do the 100 reasons right away. I started with 10 reasons, but I eventually managed to squeeze in like 60 reasons why I need to move to Canada. As soon as that list was complete, I started working on the paperwork, that paperwork that was sitting on my desk for six months up to that day. So just something to think about. It’s more about, it’s more about playing into your brain’s existing mechanisms, playing into the wiring, then just stating the affirmation because unfortunately, for me, stating the affirmations out loud, had no impact. It was more about developing a sense of urgency and a sense and a desire that was more powerful than whatever was scaring me, which in some cases is just finding a bigger bear, which is like another thing that scares me more on the opposite end of it, you know, like part of the part of the answers for the whole why I need to move to Canada. There were lots of negative things about Israel. You know, reasons why I can’t stay in Israel. So it wasn’t even about Canada, it was just about leaving Israel. So, consider that.

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