It all begins with ASKing the right questions, then deciding the path that is best for you in the moment, and ending with making Your Move that puts words and ideas into Action for immediate and passionate results. Skip one step and you are stuck and unsatisfied in any facet of your life. Show up and have the desire to put all three into action, and watch your personal and professional life catapult in a trajectory toward success and personal satisfaction. This is about creating Your Compelling Future, the one YOU chose to design, and the one you WILL want to put into action. Yes you can have that balanced life, IF you ASK – Decide and then Move!

1. ASK – DECIDE - MOVE!
CREATE YOUR COMPELLING
FUTURE NOW

3. The quality of your life
is determined by the
quality of questions you
ASK yourself…
and others!

4. What do successful organizations and people
do to have the best professional and
personal life?
They ASK the Right Questions
Before, During, and After
Any Action

5. 3 QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU
ASK
•What exactly do you
want?
•When do you want it?
•Who can give it to you?

6. WHAT DO YOU WANT?

7. WHEN DO YOU WANT IT?

8. WHO CAN GIVE IT TO YOU?

9. QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE ANY
ACTION
• Do you know exactly what you want in
quantifiable terms?
How much, how many, how often, and
when?
• What do you need in order to be 100%
prepared?
• Who should be helping you and how can you
ASK this person or these people for their
help?

10. QUESTIONS TO ASK BEFORE ANY
ACTION
• Are you absolutely
certain you have the best
people, tools, knowledge for this to be a success?
• What things can get in the way of your success
and can you make adjustments to prevent them
NOW?
• Have you blocked the time on your calendar for
this action, can you clear your calendar for this
priority?

11. ASK YOUR WAY TO MAKE THE BEST
DECISIONS
DECIDE

12. QUESTIONS TO ASK DURING ANY ACTION
• Have you setup the right benchmarks, reporting
systems, or analyses that will accurately illustrate
the progress AND the weaknesses?
• Are you ASKing for feedback/impressions along
the way?
• Are you ASKing the right people for feedback along
the way?
• Are your ASKs compelling, convincing, and
passionate?

13. QUESTIONS TO ASK DURING ANY ACTION
• How is your energy level? Are you enthusiastic or
are you dreading each day?
• How can you constantly create
momentum?
• Are you responding right away when things are
off schedule or need attention?
• Are you LEADING or BEING LED by the
problems that arise?

14. QUESTIONS TO ASK AFTER ANY ACTION
MOVE
• What steps and action plans can you take RIGHT
now to get you into action?
• Look at the difference it will make if you ASK the
right questions much earlier in this process
instead of AFTER the action!
• How did you do? Start here before placing
outside measurements on yourself!
• You can congratulate yourself as well as ASK
what could you have done better.

15. QUESTIONS TO ASK AFTER ANY ACTION
MOVE
• Were your goals and your ASKs realistic?
• What could you have done to make your
corporate partners and sponsors more engaged?
• How could you have gotten a quicker response to
your proposal?
• Did you show how valuable volunteers‟ efforts
were for any success?

16. HOW DO WE MAKE THIS HAPPEN?
#1 – Put X’s on your open time on your calendar
• If you do not have any time, something must come
off your „to do‟ list or you cannot take on another
task.
• Do you have too many meetings/events?
• Are you spending too much time on calls and email?
• STUDY: If you e-mail as the 1st task in the morning,
you are diminishing your short-term memory and
are unfocused for the day!

17. How Do We Make This Happen?
#2 - Have a “creativity meeting” two times a
month.
• STUDY: People are most creative at 4 p.m.
contrary to many meetings that are usually held first
thing in the morning!
#3 – Doing it ALL only gets you… More work!
• It is far better to do certain things extraordinarily
well then to do everything with no real extraordinary
results.

18. How Do We Make This Happen?
#4 – Reach out to people you admire, in any area,
and ASK: “ How are you able to be organized,
focused while being creative and flexible?”
• You do not have to re-invent the wheel.
• ASK thought leaders you admire.
• LEARN from the best.
• ADAPT techniques that make you comfortable at
first then,
Take Risks!

19. Chang
e

20. Motivator for Change
Old things cast long shadows!

21. How Do We Make This Happen?
#5 – Re-work your Belief System About Change
• Many of us have the belief that:
Change = Fear
Change = Failure
Change = Uncertainty
• Re-work your belief to:
Change = Momentum
Change = Growth
Change = Your Progressive Future!

22. #JUSTASK
What is the one thing you
can ASK yourself right
now that will set your path
for meaningful change?
• Tweet your answer right
now to:
@expertontheask with
#JUSTASK and become
a follower for a chance
to win my book, The ASK!

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