The Miracle Question: An Easy, Fun Activity That Helps You Move From Feeling Stuck to Imagining Your Future!

The Miracle Question teaches you how to use your imagination like a genie!

Feeling stuck? If you are looking for a way to get out of a rut or how to make a difficult decision and are looking for inspiration, then the Miracle Question is for you.

Often times we can get stuck in our lives feeling as if we have tunnel vision and lacking vision or motivation to move forward. “What do I do next?” “Where am I going?” “How do I get to where I want when I’m not even sure what I want or what to do?”

If these questions sound familiar to you, then you are far from alone. It can be very easy to stay stuck in a rut, in a deficit-based mindset— that is, focusing on what we aren’t doing rather than what we can do? 

So, how do you move from the deficit mindset and increase inspiration? How do you enlarge your perspective to help give you greater clarity and vision for your future?

There is a mental exercise we can use that will tap into your power of imagination. Imaginations are limitless, only bound by your beliefs. And thus, your limiting beliefs can also hold you back from making the decisions that will improve your life, as well as act on them. What often happens is that people have already put up the obstacles in their way even when they get a glimmer of what it is they truly want, and thus stop before they even start.

So, how do you use the power of your imagination? Please consider the following scenario (remember, this may sound like a strange question, but it will help put you in a place of a creative mindset):

Imagine that tonight as you sleep a miracle occurs in your life. A magical wand is waved over your sleeping body and all of your problems disappear... You are not aware that this miracle is happening. You are merely sleeping as it happens. But it occurs nonetheless.

When you wake up, how do you know a miracle has occurred?

What is now different?

What's the first thing you notice as you wake up in the morning?

What would you now be feeling?

What does your life look like on this first day?

This first week?

This year? 

What might others close to you notice differently about you?

Take your time to let your imagination run with this. Review the scenario and the follow-up questions at your own pace. Take each question at your own pace. At any point, if you start to think something like, “But I won’t be able to do X because of Y,” remind yourself that this magic wand removed all of your problems— that, too, includes the obstacles (beliefs, feelings, etc) that would get in your way.

This exercise can be done more than once. It is a very powerful way to get you to a place of creativity and a sense of freedom and control in your life. 

Give this Miracle Question exercise a try. Become inspired. If you have any thoughts or questions, don’t hesitate to ask!