The Million Dollar Question

The kinds of questions we ask guide our thoughts, emotions, and actions. The mind has a system for filing information, much the same as we would store information in a filing cabinet in different folders.

Where a physical filing cabinet is limited by its size, the unconscious mind can store almost unlimited amounts of information. And the better the “files”—or memories—are organized, the easier it is to access the information. Effective questions can act as your access codes to the information.

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