Tim Hanson - The Coaching Questions Handbook: 150 Powerful Questions for Life Coaching and Personal Growth (powerful questions, coaching questions, life coach, life coaching ) (Volume 1)

The Coaching Questions Handbook 150 Powerful Questions for Life Coaching and Personal Growth By Tim Hanson Table of Contents Introduction Conclusion Copyright 201 by Globalized Healing, LLC - All rights reserved. Click Here For Free & On-Sale Books Introduction The ability to ask powerful, open-ended questions is the most brilliant tool that we as humans can possess. They dont have to be earth shattering or ground breaking questions that leave listeners with their jaw hanging down to the ground, although they can be. More importantly they need to be questions that will stimulate emotion to provoke aha moments; ones that leave the person in deep thought to inspire creativity, increase productivity, and blast glaring headlights on personal development. Questions are the primary way to build a connection and develop lasting, meaningful relationships. They have brought peace in to broken, confusing relationships; they have helped to solve lifes most complicated problems; and most importantly theyve brought a deeper level of understanding to humanity so that society as a whole can give and get more out of life.

The questions you are about to embark upon will be ones that will open many doors that you once believed were locked with ten deadbolts. They will be ones for you to guide others to finding out what makes them tick not like a time bomb but instead like a grandfather clock on the wall waiting to strike midnight. You will find the book is divided into the eight important categories so that you can immediately jump to the section as needed. Lets begin! Chapter 1: Personal Growth Questions Coach, Listen, and Be Curious Coaches have been recognized as leaders in creating powerful questions to evoke transformation. Coaches seek out to be leaders in personal development and business development. They get lit up to inspire, build, and connect with others, all of which begin with questions to determine what the other person really wants out of life.

Although questions are the primary focus of this ebook, it is important to understand that listening has equal importance in order for you to respond and create your own questions so that you can direct a conversation that will benefit the other person. Use the words they use to build other questions. For example, if a person says I dont like how things have changed, you can say What do you mean by change? Can you give me an example? This leads to further conversation and the conversation to get deeper, leading to more meaningful places. Everyday of life we learn something new. Whether it be talking with a friend about his new born baby, watching the news to learn about a massacre in Iraq, or realizing that we like to listen to the acoustic version of Led Zeppelin. We learn things about events in the world, ourselves, and facts about life everyday when we listen.

Listening with our ears, observing things with our eyes, and listening to the inner sense of intuition are simple examples of ways to listen and understand. One more thing before we dive into the questions is that the best questions come from being curious, non-judgemental, and keeping an open-mind to allow the door to be wide-open to possibilities. This section was created with ways for both you and the person whom you are speaking with to gain purpose, understand oneself, and others in deeper, more meaningful ways. What do you want in life? What is your dream? What is your purpose? What else? In 1 month from now, where do you want to be? 3 months? 6 months? 1 year? What are you searching for? How will it feel to be there? What are you grateful for? Who do you want to be? What does that look like? What is important to you? Why is that important to you? Who do you admire or what type of person do you look up to? If he/she could offer you advice, what would it be? What are you 3 of your best qualities that you can bring to the situation? Tell me more. Imagine how it would feel once you accomplish this. What is getting in the way of living the life you want to live? Why do you want to be like this? What will this bring you? What do you need to do to get there? What do you value in life? Whats the challenge here? If you could do one thing everyday, something that excites you to get out of bed everyday, what would that be? Whats stopping you? Where can you get that information? What are the 5 most important things in your life? What else do you want? What excites you and makes you feel alive? What makes you smile? How can you add more of that to your day? (to your life?) If you were to paint a picture of your life one year from now, what would it be? How have you changed from when you were 10 years old? 20? 30? If your life were to represent a color in this exact moment, what would that be? Why? What does this color mean to you? Imagine you were 95, what would you like to say about your life? Lets set a deadline.

When do you want to accomplish this by? How will you know you have accomplished it? Chapter 2: Relationship Questions Relationships are the best part of life. Every relationship takes time and effort from both people and requires a level of understanding of why another person does the things he or she does. It is important to know what a person is looking for and wants out of the relationship. Both parties need to be benefiting or else the relationship will not last. Therefore, these are the questions can be used to get to the bottom of what a person really wants in a relationship. What would you rate your current relationship on a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 being terrible and 10 being excellent)? What do you like about your relationship? What do you want more of in your relationship? When you think of this relationship, how does it make you feel? What is something youve wanted to tell your partner, but have resisted due to fear? What do you want? What are the 3 most important qualities that the person must have? What are the 3 qualities that you can not stand in a partner? Can you see yourself with him/her 20 years from now? What do you want more of? What is the first step to getting more of what you want? What does your intuition say? Who are you in the relationship? What have you learned from your past (or current) relationship? What would your life be like if this person were to die tomorrow? What would you tell this person if you knew that today were his/her last day? Who do you have to be to attract this type of person? When do you want this by? Where do these type of people hang out? Where else? How would your best friend (or the person who knows and understands you best) describe you? Lets say a similar situation happens again, what will you do differently? Looking at the big picture, how important is this to you? Chapter 3: Fun Questions Life was meant to be fun it is a necessity to life.

We work in order to have fun and enjoy time with our selves and our families. Fun can range from things from relaxing on a couch and laughing at a sitcom on Television to having an adventure at an amusement park with our families. This category was created to open doors to what a person wants for fun and how he can bring more fun into his or her life. What do you want more of in your life? What does fun mean to you? What else? If you had more fun in your life, how would that feel? When you are having fun, who so you see with you? On a Scale of 1 10 (with 10 being the highest), what do you rate the level of fun in your life today? Where do you want it to be tomorrow? One week from now? One month from now? How important is fun to you? When you were 10 years old, what was fun to you? What if you were to bring that feeling back into your life? What if we were to remove fun from your life? What would your life be like? If you had one day that was dedicated to having fun, what would you do? What is one thing youve always wanted to do, but haven't due to fear? How can you bring more fun into your life? Chapter 4: Health Questions Without health, we would not be alive. So of course health needs to be addressed. It is topic that needs to be addressed for the completion of the 7 categories of personal development.