Developing Skills of Deep Insight and in-depth understanding

In this article you will learn the following

-100 questions for creating powerful insights through self-reflection

-22 basics of developing and boosting your business insight

-18 profound insight I gained - although they were always been mentioned by my parents and other wise people - it still took me 50 years to resonate and accept these - they would be true for you as well

This saying is still true - before you are able to lead, understand, motivate and inspire others - you first lead, understand, motivate and inspire yourself.

Whether you are a successful start-up, or a great CEO or a wonderful business-leader or a disruptive-game-changer or simply a person who has nurtured most wonderful relationships - the cause would your practicing the profound insights that you have gained and your applying the most fundamental basics of business-personal-relationship-wealth-health-growth's success.

Developing deep insight is linked with understanding human - and that is why self-awareness is an important component emotional and social maturity and intelligence.

Suppose you have introduced a new successful business idea - even that has to do with large number of people who bought your idea and promoted it.

Your understanding of others will always start with - how you feel, what you like and dislike, what has worked for you, what motivates you and what type of life you would like to live etc.

Self-reflection or introspection or personal reflection from both macro and micro level - is identifying your behaviors, thoughts, your emotions, attitudes, motivations, and desires and know why you think-feel-act this way.

You can analyze and evaluate your overall life to determine whether you are happy with the direction it is taking and make necessary adjustments as well as course-corrections.

Reflection is a deeper form of learning that create meaningful-insights to clarify your thinking and focusing on what really matters to you.

Practicing self-reflection is not easy - in fact it is downright very-difficult and that is why it takes discipline and intent - you may need to create time to think and analyze the WHYs - especially when you are going through disruptions and chaos.

Without the habit of self-reflection you may be going through the motion of living by flowing and moving from one thing to the next and without thinking and evaluating whether things are actually going well or what is going well and what is not working - which certainly would results in your getting stuck regularly.

When you end up doing the same things again and again - even if those things are not producing the results you want and had hoped for - like you may stay in a job, career, profession, relationship or daily routine - it is very-very demotivating.

Many times your emotions can cloud your judgment and you can lose sight of what truly matters - many things in life at times - seem bigger, scarier and worse than they truly are.

Self-reflection allows you to take a step back and gain perspective and process events and achieve clarity to enable you to focus on what matters and also helping you ignore which is insignificant energy-vampires.

Without self-reflection - you become reactive and you will have many situations that will fill you with regrets, shame, guild and sadness - which most people carry for long creating a vicious cycle.

18 profound insight I gained - although they were always been mentioned by my parents and other wise people - it still took me 50 years to resonate and accept these - they would be true for you as well - please add yours in this list

• 1.When you are in the roller-coaster - only you have to deal with your fears, anxieties, physical symptoms and everything
• 2.In most situation- no one is coming to your rescue - remember Ukraine they are fighting their own battles - yes they are getting resource-help but that's it
• 3.You cannot change anyone - you can only temporarily influence their behaviors by using whatever power you have over them
• 4.People only change when they perceives real threat or great value for themselves -they make this decision based on their values, motivations, drives and fears and not yours
• 5.Whatever is happening in your life - irrespective of whether you were responsible for it - now it is only your responsibility to mitigate and resolve the situation - so stop waiting for someone to solve your problems
• 6.If you are living your life thinking what others think of you and getting stressed unnecessarily - please understand that only very-very few people and that too on rare occasions think about you in passing manner - because everyone is busy with their own issues
• 7.If you have been dealt with a bad deal by say your fate - you have to go through the grind - till the phase gets over
• 8.No matter what you do - there will always be few regrets - my biggest regrets are what I did wrong with my parents, siblings and kids - although my intent was always most noble but my methods were not
• 9.You will survive all types of pains and embarrassments and live to remember them
• 10.You will remember all your mistakes and failures as well as moments of shame, pains and embarrassments but not your strengths and successes in equal degrees
• 11.Your most moments of major shame, embarrassment, failures will happen in public view and all your major triumph moments would be witnessed by very few if you are lucky [at least I find it to be true for me almost all the time]
• 12.You will always get a better solution and idea - when you have already implemented something that you feel is not that effective
• 13.You will always have great advice for others - but once in that situation yourself you will be confused
• 14.None of your plans will work long time - I found that my retirement plans as well as career plans and health plans - had be readjusted again and again
• 15.Every time you make mistake and you tell yourself that you will never repeat this - you will do exactly same
• 16.The most loyal and people who care for you most - would be your parents and children in the worst case scenario
• 17.Your material possessions would lose their importance and meaning soon or by the time you cross 50-60
• 18.No relationship can be taken for granted - you have to proactively nurture each loving and important relationship - all the time

100 questions for creating powerful insights through self-reflection

• 1.Please don't rush through this self-assessment. - Take the necessary time to reflect on each area of your life. If you rush, you'll miss out on the value of self-reflection [in many points given below - there are many stand-alone exercises - all are important]
• 2.Take a situation and ask how you are interpreting this event - what past experiences have triggered this interpretation - Can this be interpreted in completely different ways that which is also logical, rational and true
• 3.Identify which area of your life you want insight [ANSWER ALL THESE]- Identify the business, personal, professional and other benefits
• 4.Write down both the highlights as well as your lowlights and check whether there are any patterns
• 5.Note down [ANSWER ALL THESE] - What do you want to change about your life - What things can you improve on -What you want to do, be and have
• 6.What can you do to make you feel [ANSWER ALL THESE]- [fulfilled in your work -feel joyful and peaceful -feel clear-headed, engaged, and intellectually motivated and inspired -feel healthy, nourished, and strong -connected with the world -feel positive about the relationships in your life]
• 7.What can you do to [ANSWER ALL THESE] - [living life being yourself -have healthy and balanced perspectives -take care of yourself - mentally, emotionally, physically, socially, spiritually and financially]
• 8.Are you letting [ANSWER ALL THESE] - [others control your life -circumstances define you -matters that are out of your control create unnecessary stress - toxic people kill my identity]
• 9.When and who [situation, people] make you feel worthless and WHY
• 10.When and who [situation, people] make you feel great about yourself and WHY
• 11.When you feel[ANSWER ALL THESE] - great about yourself - feel worthy - feel thrilled - feel most confident - feel proudest
• 12.What gives you momentary happiness [ANSWER ALL THESE] - [making love, making breakfast, going to a party, winning an argument
• 13.Who in your life -genuinely support you and whom you can genuinely trust
• 14.What things you would do unconditionally to make others happy - how often
• 15.What things would you do if you start loving yourself unconditionally - can you start acting on these right-now
• 16.What are the things that you hide about yourself [ANSWER ALL THESE]- your weaknesses, your past mistakes, your lack of confidence, looks, health, finance etc.
• 17.What are the habits that you find are creating more problems
• 18.What are your talents, competencies, strengths and positive qualities that help and others succeed
• 19.Do find yourself eager to relate, please, entertain, get their validation, recognition and approval
• 20.What are your care-values, beliefs and principles;
• 21.What are the things which are most important to you
• 22.What are your drives, motivations and inspirations
• 23.When you lose control
• 24.When you are unable to manage your negative emotions
• 25.What qualities or traits do you most admire in others
• 26.Why you think it is more important to be liked by others or should you try to impress yourself
• 27.What things would you like to change in yourself
• 28.When you are in your best - mood, confidence, physical-mental-emotional energy and enthusiasm levels and why
• 29.Which situations make you struggle and why
• 30.Which situation and people you try to avoid and why
• 31.When you feel - stressed, brave, thrilled
• 32.Write 10 sentences with I wish
• 33.Write 10 sentences with if only I could
• 34.Who i need to become to be proud of myself - why
• 35.Are you living a fake life - just so that others admire and like you
• 36.Are you living your life to please others
• 37.Think about a situation what is giving you anxiety or making you scared
• 38.Think about something that is giving you hope
• 39.If you feel you are going through the worst phase - can you still notice few positives that you are ignoring or undermining

22 basics of developing and boosting your business insight

• 1.Insights cannot develop from - single focused surreys ormarket research - although these may enable your business to make a more informed decision based upon the objectives
• 2.All your products, services, messages and interactions should focus on that one key insight which is the most critical factor in making your prospect become you customer by buying from you
• 3.All your insights should help you change a behavioral or attitude change among your customers - like from buying a competitive brand to purchasing yours or your brand giving great unparalleled value for money instead of being expensive
• 4.Insight development benefits more from working from differing perspectives of a diverse team.
• 5.Insights are almost always based on a universal human values - like we all want to be safe, appreciated, feel great become better and grow faster and so on
• 6.Insights focus creating meaningful change
• 7.Insights never will create big-change overnight
• 8.All insights have to be evolved, developed, cultured, nurtured and tested real-time
• 9.Understand that business-insights - deals with how your ideas would be received by your customers
• 10.Accept that when your communication has to be centered around what changes your customers are looking for, what makes them get hook on to your message and the value-proposition emotionally
• 11.All marketing and selling actions have to be focused on engaging your customers as well as your employees along with all your vendors and supplier to create a powerful coordinated collaboration
• 12.Develop your levels of observation and the subsequent knowledge that arises -keep observing the subject in order to improve both the depth of understanding and observation - find practical uses for insight Identify what information is already available
• 13.Build on what is already known to create your question bank - after talking with end-users, real customers
• 14.Try to find through your questions what could be the unexpressed needs of the people
• 15.Identify what future needs your proposition satisfies - which is unknown
• 16.Create a base-line for validation of your insights and use the surveys to either confirm or refute to understand if your results are bad news or good news
• 17.If your exercise does not tell you if you should shelve your project or go all guns - then your questions might be wrong
• 18.Redesign the questions based on your new information
• 19.Find out what most people think, before going for segments which might be giving different messages
• 20.Vet if your findings are true for your simplified story
• 21.Go on to look at the bigger picture and provide my recommendations
• 22.From insight to creating future-vision or outsight - once you have developed insight you will be able to also develop outsight - it means being able to see beyond yourself and much beyond what you already know or have already experienced by being open to possibilities never dreamed before

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