{"id":2384,"date":"2015-01-07T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T13:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coachingreallyworks.com\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2016-10-25T02:57:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:57:01","slug":"2-simple-questions-to-improve-your-results-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/2-simple-questions-to-improve-your-results-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Simple Questions To Improve Your Results This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forget New Year resolutions. The new year is a clean slate where we get to make new memories and take new action toward our goals.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t fall into the trap of reliving a cycle of repeated resolutions that get you nowhere.<\/p>\n<h2>In this Video:<\/h2>\n<p>00:15 &#8211; How To Make 2015 The Best<br \/>\n00:40 &#8211; Two Questions I Asked Myself<br \/>\n01:00 &#8211; Why Ask Positive Questions<br \/>\n01:30 &#8211; Look At Your Life<br \/>\n02:00 &#8211; Celebrate With A Friend<br \/>\n02:35 &#8211; Quote from Robin Sharma<br \/>\n02:51 &#8211; Affirmation to Help You Move Forward<\/p>\n<h2>Listen to the Audio:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\">[powerpress]\n<h2>Watch the Video:<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-video fusion-youtube\" style=\"max-width:600px;max-height:360px;\"><div class=\"video-shortcode\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top:60%;\" ><iframe title=\"YouTube video player 1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aTkfoBetL_c?wmode=transparent&autoplay=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<h2>Transcription:<\/h2>\n<p>I love the new year and the challenge that it brings. I like to look ahead to see that its just this clean slate.<\/p>\n<p>There is so much potential, so many things that I can get done. It really is an exciting time for me.<\/p>\n<p>Hi I am Abe Stone, a life design coach at <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">coachingreallyworks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, I would like to give you this incredible tool that you can use to make 2015 your best year yet.<\/p>\n<h3>Two Questions To Ask Yourself<\/h3>\n<p>Just yesterday I sat down and I was looking over my business, the work that I do in coaching, personal development, the website, and\u00a0different things and I was looking at it and there were\u00a0<strong>two questions that I brought up<\/strong> and I put them on the board. The are really simple.\u00a0The first one is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;What went well?&#8221;<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I looked over the year, I looked over the\u00a0statistics, I looked over all kinds of things, the posts, the interactions, the products that I have been working on and developing and I made a long list and I was really amazed.<\/p>\n<p>It was actually a lot bigger than I anticipated.<\/p>\n<p>Then I asked the second question:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;What can I do better?&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Power of a Positive Perspective<\/h3>\n<p>Now, there is something really important about asking questions in this way, <em><strong>in a positive way,<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0because the mind goes to work, finding solutions in a positive way, when we use positive questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What can I do? What can I do better?&#8221; rather than looking over the past year and thinking, &#8220;What went wrong? How did I miss it?\u00a0What was not working?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you take it and you turn around and you <em>put it in a positive light<\/em> then <em>it becomes so much easier to get engaged<\/em> and <em>think about solutions<\/em> and <em>to look forward to doing something about them<\/em> and making the next year an even greater year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>How to Use These\u00a0Question to Set Yourself Up for a Great Year?<\/h3>\n<p>I would like to suggest that you can use these two questions to sit down,<em> this\u00a0next week<\/em>, or maybe over <em>this weekend<\/em> that is coming up and just ask yourself these\u00a0two simple questions and look at how the last year went.<\/p>\n<p>You can look at it in different areas. <a title=\"Are You Forgetting These Key Areas For Experiencing a Balanced Life?\" href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/are-you-forgetting-any-of-these-key-areas-of-life-balance\/\">You can look at your<strong> personal life<\/strong>. You can look at your <strong>work life<\/strong>, in your <strong>family<\/strong> or maybe as a <strong>spouse\u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>your relationships<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>When you look at things that worked, be sure to take sometime <em>celebrate<\/em> and get excited. Get excited about the things that went well,<em> how they went well<\/em> and maybe even celebrated with a friend if it was something that they were involved in or maybe your with your coworkers. <em><strong>Find a way to really make them significant<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Set SMART Goals<\/h3>\n<p>Something that you are going to want to do at this point is that you are going to want to set goals for the next year and I have a post that I put\u00a0up earlier about <a title=\"Make Your Goals Emotionally Powerful, SMART Goals That Rock &#091;Inforgraphic&#093;\" href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/make-emotionally-strong-smart-goals-rock\/\" target=\"_blank\">setting emotional goals that move you<\/a>, with a brief outline of what \u00a0SMART goals are. So, you can look that up. I will put the link to it in the notes below.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Link:\u00a0<a title=\"Make Your Goals Emotionally Powerful, SMART Goals That Rock &#091;Inforgraphic&#093;\" href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/make-emotionally-strong-smart-goals-rock\/\">\u00a0Make Your Goals Emotionally Powerful, SMART Goals That Rock [Inforgraphic]<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another post that you might find interesting is the one I made about <a title=\"Are You Forgetting These Key Areas For Experiencing a Balanced Life?\" href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/are-you-forgetting-any-of-these-key-areas-of-life-balance\/\">life balance<\/a> and I will put a link to it in the notes below as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Link:\u00a0<a title=\"Are You Forgetting These Key Areas For Experiencing a Balanced Life?\" href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/are-you-forgetting-any-of-these-key-areas-of-life-balance\/\">Are You Forgetting These Key Areas For Experiencing a Balanced Life?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And now I would like to give you a really great quote that you can put up to remind yourself about these ideas.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>What gets measured gets improved&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Robin Sharma (<em>Read <a title=\"...on Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1554684366\/?tag=coachingreall-20\" target=\"_blank\">The Greatness Guide<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And now for the affirmation for this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>I recognize the barriers to achieving my goals and I move around them, over them and through them.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>Go ahead and make a comment in the comment section below. I would love to hear from you. I would love to hear what your goals are, what your ideas are for next year, even if you just want to say hi, I would really like to hear from you.<\/h4>\n<p>This is Abe Stone at <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingreallyworks.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">coachingreallyworks.com<\/a>. I would love to hear from you. Take care!<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-fullwidth.fusion-builder-row-1 { overflow:visible; }<\/style><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget New Year resolutions. The new year is a clean slate where we get to make new memories and take new action toward our goals. Don&#8217;t fall into the trap of reliving a cycle of repeated resolutions that get you nowhere. 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