Asking HOT Questions

There comes a time where we need to start asking ourselves difficult but important questions. The benefits of it are too numerous to state here but we'll mention just three.

One, asking such questions allow us to make improvements to what we currently have. It used to be, if it ain't broken don't fix it. It's now, if it ain't broken fix it anyway. Unless we pursue excellence as a way of life, as a habit, as a mantra; we will suffer the serious consequences of being caught in a situation where what we know and what we can do no are no longer in demand.

Two, asking such questions force us to re-examine our assumptions, beliefs, and perception. They are not the same and we are not arguing on matters of semantics but seriously each has it's unique characteristics that we sometimes neglect at our own peril.

Let's start with assumptions. By assuming that your spouse will not change, maybe because you have reasons to believe that it didn't happen in the past and hence it wouldn't happen now. Based on that assumption, you will response in a particular manner that would reinforce that belief. Over time, as it proofs to you that because your spouse doesn't change will lead you to form the perception that all spouses don't change.

Now, in a corporate context this get magnified to a degree that can sometimes blow things out of proportions.

Three, and perhaps to me the most important of all is this, if we don't ask ourselves questions like these then we probably will never think that there is an issue to begin with.

And reason why I say it's the most important to me is this: self-awareness and humility are the elements of a great character. If we do not know what we do not know then there is never a problem to begin with. I'm not suggesting you become a trouble maker but to first question yourself hard enough.