I was recently asked if finding your powerful question is a “going inside” process. The question gets to an important point. We typically gravitate to either internal or external when we want to reflect on our life. If we are injured or hurt we often do a quick internal assessment ie, “How is this affecting me?” If we want to consider whether we feel good about our life we often begin by taking an external inventory of what we have and what we have accomplished.

Discovering our powerful question requires both an internal and external examination. Stay with only internal and you will likely encounter judgmental self-talk and old scripts that can keep you stuck. Stay with only the external and you will likely miss the deeper meaning of accomplishments, successes and failures. Finding where internal and external intersect, and staying with any tension that may exist there is the sweet spot where powerful questions can reveal themselves.