4 ½ questions

How to use the questions

Write each question down somewhere. Not your laptop — a notebook, a napkin, the back of an envelope. Then leave them alone for a bit.

Take them for a walk. Sleep on one. Get out of your usual space. Let your thinking go where it wants to.

The only rules- write them down, don’t rush, notice what shifts.

Question 1

What are you currently trying to fix, improve, or “get sorted”?

(Write everything down, don’t edit yourself yet.)

Question 2

What do you believe would actually change if that worked?

(Be honest, sometimes the answer is smaller than we think, and sometimes it’s much bigger.)

Question 3

If this were solved in one place, would the feeling disappear everywhere, or just move?

(This is the one that tells you whether you’re looking at the real thing.)

Question 4

What question are you actually trying to answer?

Start here: “What I’m really trying to figure out is…”

(Finish that sentence, don’t overthink it, trust your instinct.)

Question ½

And one more thing — not quite a question, more of an invitation:

What do you want this business to give you?

You don’t have to answer it now, but notice what comes up when you ask it.

If you want, you can email me about what you were trying to figure out.

Sometimes a short back-and-forth is all it takes to get unstuck.

Jules x