Meryl's Notes Blog

New Year resolutions… whether or not you make ‘em or believe in ‘em, here’s one book that can help you improve your life. It has worked for many others and me. We had a health scare yesterday in which my daughter and mother-in-law were panicking. I remained calm for most of it (which is amazing in itself) because I knew we could be worrying over nothing. Using QBQ (see below), I kept asking myself, “What can I do about this?” Everything is A-OK and we’re thankful things turned out the way they did.

In his previous book, QBQ! The Question Behind the Question, John G. Miller shows how to change our thinking by asking questions in a different way. In Flipping the Switch, Miller provides more examples on how to ask questions to hold ourselves accountable in work and life. Doing this leads to five advantages Miller calls the Advantage Principles:

*Learning

*Ownership

*Creativity

*Service

*Trust

The book takes only an hour to read and quickly pulls someone out of the doldrums and changes them into a ball of energy, hence Flipping the Switch. Asking QBQ helps us avoid becoming defensive and pointing fingers and changes a person’s thinking from “It’s her fault” to “How can I fix this?” [ More ]