Years ago, on a winter night in Chicago, I was on a group coaching call with a bunch of other women working on money and abundance. The coach asked us, what would you do if you weren't afraid? In a split second, I said, "I'd sell my condo and move to California." The next day I was looking for a realtor.

A few years later, at a retreat, a coach asked, how would you describe your ideal future life? I immediately wrote down I've left the corporate world, and now I'm a coach. The wheels for that to happen were set in motion that day.

So I know the power of a great question.

One of my favorite parts of being a coach is asking clients questions that allow them to tap into their own insight, intuition, and wisdom. They always have their own answers.

Here are some of the questions I often ask:

What would you do if money were no object?
What's something you can say no to?
Who can support you?
What makes you feel most alive?
What's the most important thing you can do to move your business forward?

My antennae are always up for new questions. I loved the ones from a recent interview with fashion designer Phoebe Philo in the NYTimes where she shared three questions she asks herself:

How can I do my best work?
What is my potential?
How can I have the most responsive relationship to the world that we're living in today?

I was also inspired by the story of Deanna Stellato-Dudek, a former skating champion who, at 17, retired from skating due to an injury. Sixteen years later, during an exercise at a work retreat, she drew this classic question from a card deck: what would you do if you knew you could not fail? She immediately said, 'I'd win an Olympic gold medal". Two weeks later, she began to train again, and last weekend at 40, she and her pairs partner Maxime Deschamps won the Gold Medal at the World Figure Skating Championship.

And then there are the questions you can spend your life asking yourself again and again. My favorite is the last line from Mary Oliver's poem The Summer Day "Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

A Question Can Change Your Life!