Here's How to Ask a Better Question

0:02Hi, and welcome to this week's episode of the Epic Entrepreneurs podcast where we are all about helping business owners just like you achieve success. So we don't do fancy smancy. We don't do flashing lights. We don't do a lot of things that a lot of podcasts will do. These are just real stories about real people and their entrepreneurial and business experiences. We go into their wins, their challenges, and their learnings. So we hope you enjoy it.

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2:00But today, I want to talk to you about the evolution of questions in your life. One of the things that you need to become better at is asking the right questions. Some of that comes down to learning. So you got to have a good mentor. You got to know which that's going to come down to the quality or knowledge. The quality of knowledge is going to allow you to ask better questions. So if you really want to ask better questions, get a better mentor. You want to get a better mentor, you're going to get better knowledge. Better knowledge is going to allow you to ask better questions. But let me give you an example of an evolution of a question over the period of your business career.

2:50So maybe when you start out in business, maybe you're by yourself. maybe you don't have a lot of team members, you start out with the question, how can I? So there's a task, there's a goal. How can I accomplish this goal? Well, okay, that's a great question in the beginning. And then it becomes a better question might be, because it's hard to do anything by yourself in life and in business. You just can't do this stuff by yourself. So a better question might be, how can we do the thing? How can we do whatever it is to achieve the goal, whatever it is? Hey, an even better question might be, who can I get to help me do the thing?

3:40Let me take it to another level. Another level would be, who is the best person that I could assign to do this thing?

3:53the next level, who can I hire to do this thing? Because we maybe don't have anybody in the business who can do it. I need to hire somebody to do the thing. And if you take it even to an ultimate level, it's what can I buy? What company could I buy that could accomplish the thing that I want to accomplish? What do I need to start? What kind of company do we need to buy? Because if you buy a company, you get a whole bunch of people. Can you see how the question got better? It went from how can I to we to who to how can we accomplish it? Who's the best person? Who can I hire to ultimately, why don't I just buy a company to do it?

4:42So if you'd like to evolve your questions, if you'd like to get better at questions, If you like to figure out how to get yourself from how can I do it to how can I buy companies to do it, that's what we do here. We help people scale their businesses. We'd love to have a chat with you about it. Hey, it doesn't cost anything. I'll buy your cup of coffee. We can sit down. If you have any challenges, if you have any opportunities, or if you just want to talk about life or business, we'd love to have a chat with you. Hey, just hit us up. It's out all the information with the podcast, with the video.

5:21Love to have a chat with you. Can't wait to sit down with you. If it's not me, if you'd rather talk to Jason, that's fine. If you'd rather talk to Beth, that's fine. We'll be glad to have a chat with you. Hey, I hope this was useful. I want you to think about asking the better question next time. What's the better question? When you come up with an idea and you have a question in your head, ask yourself, what's the better question? Hey, and until next time, all the best.

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