Have you ever had something go majorly "wrong" in life? What you'd call a "disaster"?

Like a leaking underground water pipe that rang up a ten thousand dollar bill without you knowing, only then to cost you a few more thousand to dig out and replace? Like failing an interview or exam that was going to make or break your life? Or twisting your ankle in the final of your own Olympic equivalent? What was your disaster?

Look now at your current situation. What is your "disaster?" Having your business shut down over night by the government, with no clear idea about when it could re-open? Being shut off from your friends and family, unable to move freely until you-don't-know-when? What else?

Is a disaster what happens, or is it how you receive what happens?

If you'd prefer not to suffer, but rather be aware of how you can harness change — even dramatic sudden change — to create new preferred possibilities, ask "What if this is better than I can imagine?" 

Then with no expectation, keep smiling and breathing and ask another question. You never know what you can create until you ask. And at the very least, your smile will side-step stress and frown lines.  

You're smart, you work hard, you got good grades at school, you help your family nicely, you've got a great job, everyone says your partner is perfect, your kids are healthy and happy, you've got enough money, a nice place to live, a sexy car, some good investments, and enviable mini-breaks and maxi get-aways a few times a year. 

Your life is perfect. And even if you can only claim one or two of these things, you're doing pretty well, right?

So what do you do if you have all these things, and yet somehow feel something is missing?

There is nothing wrong with these things. They can certainly be fun. So if you have all of these things — or more! — and you're not having fun, perhaps you've made them mean something they're not?

If so, ask "What have I misidentified as living?"

​What if you could enjoy these things as well as create your life the way you'd like? How? Ask another question. 

How's business? Do you consider it a serious matter? That you should focus your furrowed brow on developing detailed, complicated and very important strategic plans? When you think about it, do you smile or frown?

If you're the frowner, do you think that's how it's supposed to be? That it's wrong to show that you enjoy business, or that doing things elegantly—getting the best result for the least effort—is somehow being flippant, cheating, or not serious enough?

Would you like to enjoy business more and get better results more easily? If so, start by giving up all the fixed points of view about it and ask "What if happiness were good for business?"

Are you willing to enjoy every moment of your business AND get results? It's possible you know. People create huge income from doing things they enjoy all the time. How? They choose to do things they enjoy. 

Happiness is just a choice and a smile is very good for business. 

What applies to you today? Pick any and all of these.

It's my birthday; I had the most amazing cup of coffee; the sky is clear, blue and has fluffy clouds; I'm feeling fit and healthy;  I hung out with fun, fabulous people (even if it was online); someone helped me out; I got what I wanted done at work/home; I got my study assignment done on time; I had a delicious sleep; I had a mani/ pedi/ backrub; my favourite shop was having a sale; I helped someone and they smiled; I saw a rerun of my favourite show; my team scored surprising points; I (almost, really!!) got a hole-in-one; the steak was cooked just right; I had a house full of screaming kids; I didn't have a house full of screaming kids; I laughed till I cried; I cried till I laughed; I felt alive; I felt free. 

None of these apply to you? Then ask "What can I celebrate today?" and think of ONE thing that you saw/ did/ experienced/ created today and CELEBRATE your life. 

What sort of people do you see everyday? Family? Friends? Coworkers? Students? Clients? Shop assistants?

How many of them are fun for you? Do they make you smile and feel great about your day? How many do you let drag you down by listening to their tales of woe?

Would you like more fun, light people in your life? If so, ask "What will it take for more fun people to come and play?"

When you ask, what comes to mind? Do you think you need to go somewhere else to meet new people?

What if all you needed was for YOU to be the difference? What if it were as easy as smiling, listening, and offering a kind word and a giggle here and there? 

Just because someone was not fun 10 seconds ago, doesn't mean they can't choose it now. Are you willing to show them how easy it can be?

What fixed points of view do you have about who and what you have to be/ do/ have/ think in life?

For example, I have to get married because my mother expects it. I can't take a year off school to travel because my father wouldn't like it. I have to get into that organisation because otherwise I'll be a failure. I have to cook dinner every night otherwise I'll be a bad parent. I can't be nice because the tough kids will make fun of me. I can't speak my mind because people will call me a "Karen." I have to believe everything other people tell me or I'll have no friends. 

Do you spend all your energy, time and money on this hamster wheel? Is it fun? Does it create the happiness you'd like? 

If not, ask "What could be possible if I changed my point of view?"

What if every "I have to" and "I can't" were just points of view that you could change? What point of view would you start with?

How many people do you have in your life you want to kill, or at least complain about endlessly? One or two? Or too many to count? When you think about these people do you smile, or frown?

When you see other people frowning, how do you feel? Do you feel happy and energetic, or not so much? What about when people smile at you? How do you feel? 

Have you ever heard this children's song?
When someone smiles at me,
I feel like smiling too,
When I see someone who is happy,
I feel happy too.

Does this work? If you'd like to find out, ask "Who can I smile at today?" and start with one person. Then try another, and another, until you smile at everyone. 

Yes, some of them may think you're insane. And do you really care what they think if you end up happier?

Are you happy with life? It's okay to say you are. But you probably can't, or won't admit it, right?

What is that? When did you decide that you couldn't be happy and had to be dissatisfied and complain about life?

Would you like to have more happiness in life? Will moaning and groaning create it? Or will choosing to be happy create it?

If you'd like to find out, ask "What can I smile about today?" and then SMILE and smile some more. 

You may only find one thing to start with. A really great cup of coffee. A break in the traffic. A clear blue sky. So SMILE. 

You can also smile at the not-so-great stuff. Illogically restrictive regulations. SMILE. Unable to see family or friends. SMILE. Lost your job. SMILE. 

After a while, like magic, your sense of happiness will expand and you'll see more and more great stuff in life. Previously unthought of possibilities emerging like new grown weeds from a scorched earth.

You may even infect others with your choice to choose happiness, and would that be something to smile about? 

Got something going on? Feeling a little down? Do you turn to your family, friends, or insignificant other for comfort, kindness, and a listening ear? Or maybe you share your soul on The Socials?

What do they offer you? Do they tell you what you're doing wrong and how, if you lived you're life like them, everything would be great? Or do they sympathise and help you reinforce your victim status?

How is that for you? Does it make you feel better?

​Are you really looking for answers? Or are you seeking something else? Maybe a hug, a smile, a space to be you?

Are you willing to create this for yourself, if no one else will? If so, ask "What will nurture me?" and be/ do/ have that. It could be anything. Blowing off the afternoon to do the thing you love to do to relax and makes you smile. 

And remember, next time someone comes to YOU like this, ask them "What can I do for you?" then listen, smile, create space, ask more questions, and shut up. 

Do you know what you'd really like in life? What you truly desire?

Have you ever allowed yourself to consider it? Or have you always been/ done/ chosen what others have told you is The Right Thing?

If your life is not going quite how you'd like it, maybe you've been choosing for others, rather than for you?

So how do you know what you'd really like? Easy. Ask"What do I truly desire?" and see what comes to mind.

It might not be anything that you've ever acknowledged before. Or maybe you were told it would not be: appropriate/ realistic/ possible/ safe/ healthy/ normal/ sensible/ or any one of 1000s of words people like to use to control you.

Are you willing to look at what you'd really like now?

Once you can see your true desires, then you can invite them into your life. You just need to ask.

How often do you ask for what you'd really like? All the time? Sometimes? Almost never?

And how much of what you'd really like do you have in your life right now? A lot? A little? Almost nothing?

Do you see the connection? Don't ask, don't get.

What stops you from asking for what you'd like? Do you think that you're being selfish? That there's not enough to go around and you should give up your bit (whatever that is) for someone else? That you don't deserve it? That you don't need to ask for anything from anyone? That people should know what you want? Something else?

Are these true? Or are they interesting points of view that you may have bought from someone, sometime?

Have you ever heard the axiom: ask and you will receive? Have you ever asked?

So if you don't have the life you'd truly like, ask "What if I asked for the life I'd truly like?"

Then ask. And receive.

Are you stuck in a rut with someone? Your insignificant other? A parent? Your boss? A co-worker? A celebrity or authority figure? Or even a friend?

Do you sense something is not quite right between you and them, and no matter what you do, you can't seem to make it work?

What have you decided this person means to you? Have you made them the answer to something?

For example, have you made your boy/girlfriend The One? Are your parents proof that you're The Good Child? Is your boss The Enemy around who you rally with your co-workers? Is a co-worker The Unfair Competition to excuse your own uninspired performance? Is the celebrity or authority figure The Hero Coming to Save the Day? Is your friend [__________ fill in their role and it's value here]?

If you'd like to be free from these limits and to see people for who they truly are — rather than what you've decided they are — ask "What have I made this person mean to me?"

Then acknowledge it, and say farewell (to the rut). 

If you'd like to continue having that person in your life, ask another question. 

Do you find you are often disappointed by the way things turn out? Are you ever let down by what people say or do?

Have you ever tried to explain to someone exactly what behaviour and words would make things work like magic between you? Did they hear you? How often has someone tried to convince you that their point of view is what you really desire?

Can you control what other people do in their lives, even in relation to you? No. People will always do exactly what works for them and pay no attention to your point of view.

The only thing you can change is you. So if you'd like to be free of feeling disappointed or let down by other people, ask "What expectations do I have here?"

When you are clear about your expectations, ask another question, like "If I had no expectations of anything or anyone, what could I change to create the result I'd truly like?"

What if creating what you'd like in life was as simple as changing your point of view?

How do you shop for clothes? Are you a bargain hunter? Do you rely on a friend, shop assistant, or internet influencer to tell you what to buy? 

Do you consider what other people will approve? For example, it's the latest fashion that your friends will admire, or its safe-conservative that your workplace will accept?

Do you ever ask your body?

How does your approach work for you? Is your wardrobe full of clothes you absolutely adore? Are your clothes a joy to wear and make you feel happy all over? Do they make you smile and strut your stuff?

Or do you shuffle through life feeling slightly uncomfortable and dressed not quite right?

For fun, next time you go shopping or open your wardrobe, ask "Body, what would you like to wear?" Notice what draws your hand or eyes. Touch it. Notice how your skin feels.

You'll know when your body wants to wear something. And if nothing draws you, keep on moving until you find something that does...even if that's nothing ;-)

Do you have hideous amounts of money? Or just as much as you need to enjoy life? Perhaps you have none at all?

What have you decided money is? Dirty? A necessity? The root of all evil? The Answer to My Life? 

Are any of these true? Or does money simply have the meaning you give it?

How much have you decided is okay to have? How did you decide? And have you defined the things you can enjoy to fit within its limits?

If you would like to change your money flows, start by clearing all the definitions you have about money, and ask "What have I decided money is?"

What if instead, you considered money a fun, fabulous tool to enable you to do all — and more — of the things you enjoy in life, including contributing to you, your friends, family and communities?

Would that be an invitation for more to come and play?

How often do you get stuck in life? A lot, a little or not at all? Do you ever get into a cranky pants rage or spiral into a frenzy of anxiety? Is that fun for you?

If not, and you'd prefer to have total freedom to see and walk around such roadblocks — to be able to change anything that's not working for you in life — start by asking one of these questions. 

​1. What if I had infinite, free choice? 

2. What if everything were just an interesting point of view?

3. If I had 10 second to choose the rest of my life, what would I choose?

4. What question could I ask?

5. What if form and structure had no significance?

6. Am I in judgement? 

7. What does this add to my life?

8. What's the value of competition?

9. What if I didn't buy the story?

10. What am I excluding here? 

The reality is, you always have choice. 

Is your life full of ease, joy and abundance?

​Not so much? No surprise given how many people seem to enjoy telling you that life must be hard, no fun, and a knock-down-drag-out fight to the death for scarce and dwindling resources. Not to mention the Fear and Terror of The Plague.

What if that were not true? If you'd like to find out what else is possible, add this daily mantra to your wake-up routine.

"All of life comes to me with ease and joy and glory."

Saying this will remind you that how you function in life is your choice. And, if you choose, you can function from ease and joy and glory (exuberant expression and abundance) no matter what is going on.

Even when "things go wrong" you can experience them with ease and create any change you desire.

It's all of life, the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. Everything is included and nothing as to be a difficulty.

The reality is, you always have a choice.

Do you feel that you're not enough? You don't fit in? That you must strive to become something that your parents, teachers, friends, bosses, The Media, The Government or others have told you that you should be?

Certainly you couldn't possibly be enough just as you are! You need to be something better, right?

What if there was nothing wrong with you? What if being you — just as you are — was exactly right?

What if it were more than OK? What if the world actually needs the full range of your talents and abilities that you've been told your whole life were wrong? 

What would that be like? Do you know? If you'd like to find out, ask "What if being me could change the world?"

If you're not clear on who you are, ask "If I were me, who would I be?" and "What's right about me that I'm not getting?"

What if you could be you and change the world?

What title have you decided you must have, to be valued? Girlfriend/ boyfriend? Husband/ wife? Mother/ father? Community leader? Volunteer? Best friend? Executive? Director? CEO? Master chef? Business person of the year? Dux? No. 1? Sir? Ma'am? Professor? Cool dude? What other title do you value?

Will a title make you into the person you'd like to be? Does not having it make you less? Or do you create you, regardless — and often in spite of — your title and other people's opinions?

When someone gives you a title do you automatically become that? Have you ever had a boss/ friend/ partner who wasn't that? Did their titles automatically make them what you desired?

And what if by accepting a title you limited yourself to what other people decided was right/ wrong good/ bad for that role, which may not work for you?

What if even without any title, you were an amazing gift to the world? So ask "What title am I limiting myself to, that if I didn't, would allow me to see and create the life I truly desire?"

What gift could you be if you chose for you, beyond the limits of any title?

How much of the world is focused on brain power? What did you study? Where you studied? Your qualifications?

Do you feel inadequate, that you're not smart enough, quick enough, or that you don't have enough information packed into your tiny grey cells? Have you decided you need to spend all day/week/year/rest of your life in the library or on the internet sucking up more?

Does your brain hold the answers to your life? Or is your brain just one part of you?

​Does what you're seeking lie somewhere else?

Have you considered that if your brain really had the power to figure out your life, wouldn't it have done so already?

If so, and you'd like to access more of what you already know, ask "If I didn’t think, what would I know?"

What do you already know? What if a brain was a wonderful thing to waste?

Are you compelled to always try your hardest to win, be right, better than, or different to anyone else? Or at least not to appear to lose or to be wrong?

How's that working for you? Is it fun?

Or do you feel trapped in a race for which you don't seem equipped and are never enough? Are you frozen by the fear of failure? Do you become depressed when you don't meet other people's standards or expectations?

Are you the same as anyone else? No. So how can an apple and a nightingale compete? Only by both becoming something else that they're not. 

So if you feel limited, frustrated, frozen or depressed by the rules of a race that doesn't exist ask "What's the value of buying into competition as real?"

Then ask "What is the greatest contribution I can be to my life, family, business and communities?" That's the generative kind of competition, which is all about being more of you. 

Do you get how amazing you are?

Do you think you're at best, just not good enough and at worst, a hopeless, lost, good-for-nothing pile of rubbish?

Is that your point of view or someone else's?

If you're not clear, ask "When did I buy the point of view that I was no good?"

Then return that point of view to sender (to your mum? your dad? a teacher? the school bully? a friend?) with consciousness. 

When if there were nothing wrong with you? What's right about you that you're not getting?

What if you were just different and amazing in ways that other people simply don't yet get?

Do you have lots of great ideas for business and life in general? Do you get enthusiastic and pour loads of energy into them, but nothing seems to happen?

Then to top it off, someone ELSE comes out with exactly the same idea a little later and it's a hit! Does that get you down?

What if you were just too quick for the rest of the world? What if you were having ideas that are perfect for 1, 5 or even 10 years in the future?

So when you get a great idea, ask "Now or in the future?" Then notice what feels light: now / in the future. Remember, if it's light, it's right for you. 

If it's in the future, write down your idea in a Special Ideas Notebook and re-visit it from time to time. 

This is a great way to nurture and contribute energy to your ideas when the time is right. 

What have you made the answer to your life?

Relationship? "When I find The One I'll be happy"

Money? "When I have $XXX in the bank I'll be secure"

Work? "When I get that job my parents will see I'm successful"

Happiness? "When people admire my work I'll feel respected"

Will these things in themselves make you feel happy, secure, validated or successful? Or does your point of view create your reality?

If you didn't have the point of view you lacked something, would you feel dissatisfied and unhappy?

So when you're feeling less than or dissatisfied with your life as it is, and you hear yourself repeating "When I have X, I'll be Y" or "If only I had X, I'd be Y" ask "What am I making having X about?"

Then notice what the real target of your desire (Y) is and ask "What will it take to be Y now?"

Got clutter in your life? Are some things — work tasks, relationships, or actual stuff in the corner — piling up and weighing you down?

How often do you hang on to habits, people and things that you know deep down you'd really rather let go?

How much of your must-hang-onto-this comes from what you think other people will say?Obligations you imagine you have that may not be true? 

What if you delegated the task? What if you created space in your life for people who made you smile? What if you reintroduced yourself to the corners of your house? What could you create as your life if you no longer clung to things that you don't truly desire?

If you'd like to de-clutter and create more space, ask "I am hanging on to this for what reason?"

If it feels light to let it go, thank it and send it off on a new adventure with consciousness.