What Do You Need?

What is it that you need? Really. Take the time to stop, pause and reflect on that question.

This is quite possibly one of the most powerful questions you can ask someone. It is also one of the most important spiritual questions that someone could ask of you.

Yet, interestingly, it is something that practically nobody ever asks you. They ask you, "What are your dreams? Where do you want to go? What do you want to do? Who do you want to be? Who do you want to date? What do you want to buy?" Not too many people ask you this fundamental question, "What do you need?"

Let’s face it. If we want to change and we want to grow and we want to get on our path, we need things. 100%. We need resources. And the only thing standing between us and getting where we want to go is a resource; a resource of someone's help, money, time energy, skills, knowledge, location, books, physical things, material things, mental skills, whatever it is. It comes down to a resource that you need. The most underutilised resource in this world is asking other people for something; for help, support, time, energy, money, all those things that I just mentioned.

We are funny humans. We workshop money but many of us cannot ask for it. We chase love but many of us don’t think we are worth it.
All we need to do is practice one simple universal law. Ask and you shall receive.

So, when you go to plan out your work, your business, your life, especially those entrepreneurs that are running independently and often very solo (or they try and do everything themselves), the one fundamental question you can ask yourself or someone that you're coaching to be the best version of themselves is, "What do you need?"

It's a game-changer.

Because the answer might just be more rest. It doesn’t need to be complex to win. The answer might be more space. The answer might be to let something or someone go. The answer might be the right working team, the right staff, the right freelancer, the right contractor. The right timing. It could be the right technology system. There is an answer somewhere out there (in this crazy universe) that is so powerful and so simple but so unasked.