Perhaps one of the biggest reasons that people fail in personal development is because many techniques are hard to apply. Either you can’t usethem in the heat of the moment due to the environment (you need some quiet place, or access to your therapist). Or because they are too complex (some NLP techniques can be difficult to follow for people that aren’t used to that way of thinking).

And another reason is: they can appear very stupid. Tapping your EFT points, sitting and visualising, going into the lotus position, playing with your NLP submodalities, talking to your inner parts. They all either make you look odd, or require you to sit in silence for a long time, which also looks odd in many situations.

But there is one technique which doesn’t have these problems: using empowering questions. The beauty of empowering questions is that:

1. You can do them in your head.

2. They are simple to use.

3. You can do them quickly – so quickly that it seems as ifyou were just pausing for thought, something we all do naturally in conversations.

4. No-one needs to know you are using them.

Do you see now why I like empowering questions? They’re quick. They’re effective. They’re natural to do. They’re private. Not many personal development approaches can check all those boxes.

The important point is to have enough questions at your fingertips to be able to use them in the middle of a

situation where you want to see some personal growth.

One way to get enough questions is to start reading books and articles on the topics.

The other way is to save yourself nearly 20 years and subscribe to the full training course I run at http://www.empowering-questions.com, where you’ll receive four 10-15 page reports every month on empowering questions.

And for more personal development articles and ideas, see http://www.selfimprovementetc.com/