What revolution should I be leading?
How can I start / do a better job of leading it today?
How can I better communicate to my customers why my business / position exists?
What single product should I sell now? To whom?
Decreasing expenses, increasing income, improving investments
How can I live better while maintaining or even decreasing my expenses today?
How can I improve my organization’s research, production, placement, and or pricing today?
How can I improve my organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and or threats today?
How can I improve my organization’s weakest processes?
How can I improve my organization’s most important processes?
How can I decrease our defects, overproduction, work-in-progress, non-standardization, transportation, inventory, motion, excess-processing?
How can I use 6S (set, sort, shine, standardize, sustain, safety) to improve my organization’s processes?
What was the most meaningful thing I spent money on last week? Last month? Last year? Why? How can I benefit from this knowledge?
What do others think my most valuable asset is? What is my most marketable skill? What could be my most valuable skill?
What skill can I develop today that will do the most to help increase my income tomorrow?
How can I better invest in quality today? Is it true that quality always costs less? How can I spend my time more effectively today (than the most impressive person in the history of the civilization ever did)?
How can I increase my income today? How can I increase it 4 years from now?
What can I do today that will increase the wealth of my great-great-grandchildren?
What are 5 additional products I could sell? What are 17 additional services could I provide? What are 27 ways I could improve the quality of products and or services I provide to my customers this year?
What service would I most like to provide to other people? What would I most like to do in my job? What would my perfect job be? What would my perfect business be?
What are 5 ways I could decrease my organization’s expenses today?
What are 3 ways I could increase my organization’s income this month?
If I was truly dedicated, could I work more hours at my job?
If I was truly dedicated, could I work fewer hours and be more productive at work?
How can I better automate repetitive tasks?
How can I do a better job of answering frequently asked questions?
How can I outsource more of my low value-added tasks?
What would my boss like me to be doing more of? Less of? How about my employees?
How can I improve my service to my customers today? What do customers like about me? What do customers like about my business? What do customers like about my employees?
Who are my greatest customers? How can I find more of them? What customers should I stop serving? How can I do a better job of eliminating problem customers more eloquently?
When was the last time I surveyed my customer’s satisfaction levels?
How can I over-deliver to my greatest customers? What do customers like about my competitors?
What wasteful products or services could I stop delivering to my customers?
How could I improve my service to my customers tomorrow? Next year? 5 years from now?
Do I believe that I am in business for myself? If I was in business for myself, would people recommend me to others?
When was the last time I asked my customers for testimonials?
Can I name 5 rich people that got rich by helping others? How could I better emulate their testimonials?
Do I believe that the ‘greatest among ye will be the servant of all’? How can I do a better job of being the servant of all? How can I serve more people? How can I better serve my current customers? What is my optimal definition of customer service?
Investments
How can I get better at investing?
How can I find more money to invest?
How can I appreciate my investments more?
How can I better prepare myself to find more companies / investments that are underpriced? What companies do I see that are currently under-priced? Why?
What industries am I most knowledgeable about? What industries would I most like to learn more about? How can I start learning more about them and or monitoring them right now?
How are the companies I am currently invested in being run? Does it seem like people will continue to buy the products and or services they sell at their current paces? How do the companies I am invested in look when considering Porter’s 5 forces: Threat of New Entry, Buyer Power, Threat of Substitution, Supplier Power, Competitive Rivalry?
How do the prices of the companies I am invested in compare to their competitors? Why are the companies I own more or less expensive / attractive? How can I better track / monitor them?
How long will it take for twice as many people to buy from the companies I am currently invested in?
How long will it take for my current investments to double in value? (Let’s say 24 years.) If I divide 72 by this number, and compare it to an average index fund rate of 7%, how do my investments compare? Ex, 72 / 24 = a 3% annual rate of return. (In this example an average index fund rate of 7% would be a better investment even though the company doubled in value every 24 years.
What is my optimal asset allocation?
How can I better prepare myself for times when the market will go down? How can I better prepare for the forces happening in the world that will affect my investments?
From The Richest Man In Babylon
“Willpower is the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment.”
Do I invest 10% (or at least some) of my money? How can I invest more of my money?
How can I do a better job of controlling my expenses?
How can I do a better job of making my dwelling a profitable investment?
Do I have enough insurance? Do I have enough of the right kind of insurance: homeowners, renters, liability, life, disability, etc.?
How can I do a better job of investing money in industries I am very familiar with?
How can I do a better job of admitting when I am ignorant and correcting my ignorance?
How can I do a better job of creating cash flow instead of seeking a lump sum of cash?
If a single grain of sand is doubled each day, it will be larger than a mountain within 64 days. How can I do a better job of benefiting from compound interest?
Have I considered dedicating 10% of my money to charity?
If I have debts, do I dedicate at least 20% of my money to paying them off?
How can I do a better job of creating luck by consistently working hard?
How can I increase my ability to earn?