💡 Coaching Insights: Why Asking "What Else Is True?" Changes Everything

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"What else is true?" This deceptively simple question might just be one of the most transformative tools we can add to our mental toolkit. When faced with any situation - whether challenging, joyful, or mundane - asking what else might be true beyond our initial perception opens doors to deeper understanding and conscious living.

Throughout our conversation, we explore how this powerful question creates space in our thinking. So many of us move through life on autopilot, eating breakfast while barely tasting it, making snap judgments based on limited information, or accepting societal narratives without question. By pausing to consider alternative perspectives, we break free from narrow patterns and discover nuances we'd otherwise miss.

We dive into the fascinating territory of personal motivation and meaning. Why do you value what you value? Why do you behave as you do? Many people live on the surface level of explanation - "I'm nice because it's good to be nice" - without examining the deeper, personal significance behind their actions. Understanding your unique "why" transforms your relationship with yourself and the world around you.

The conversation takes an especially powerful turn when discussing limiting beliefs around aging and life transitions like menopause. Rather than accepting brain fog or other challenges as inevitable identity markers, asking "what else is true?" shifts us into solution-focused thinking. This reframing transforms potential limitations into opportunities for growth and self-management.

Try asking yourself "what else is true?" in various situations today and notice how it broadens your perspective, slows down automatic reactions, and helps you make more conscious choices aligned with your authentic self. Your limiting beliefs don't have to define you - and this simple question might be the key to breaking free.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
But what else is true ?
I think one of the mostpowerful questions you can ask
yourself in any situation, anysituation good, bad or otherwise
is what else is true?
Because even when we thinkeverything's great, we can miss
out.
That's another place wherethere's space on.

(00:21):
What else is true?
Because then we go in the laneof this is good, this is good,
this is good and it's only aquestion what else is true?
You get this broadening right,this of your horizons, of seeing
stuff, and then you've sloweddown long enough to see it and
then, if this is still true, ifthis is still what you want to
do, then go for it, but you'vedone it consciously is still

(00:43):
what you want to do, then go forit, but you've done it
consciously.
Like you know, I'm doing thatbecause it's delicious, for sure
.
What if you, you know, to theBuddhist point, you know eating
food.
How many of us just stuff foodin in the morning, just like
automatically doing six, sevendifferent things?
Right, you know you don't.
You miss out on a lot when we dothings so quickly or when we

(01:05):
overlook things that arefamiliar, or where we only
default to where things arefamiliar, which is what so often
people answer really quicklybecause A either they think you
know that they want to be right,because they don't want to be
wrong, but you know, I'm alwayssaying well, why and why?
Why is that important to you?
And they go well, because it'sgood to be a good person?

(01:26):
Yeah, for sure, absolutely itis.
But why For you?
Why is it important for you tobe a good person?
Why is it important for you tofill in the blank?
Because that's bespoke to usand that's what we are
responsible for.
We are responsible for our why.
You can't just, you know, a lotof people live on the surface,

(01:49):
so a lot of people live up heregoing well, you know, I'm being
nice because it's nice to benice, yes, and it's nice to be
polite, and so on and so forth.
But why I?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
have to say I like that question.
What else is true?
But for a reminder, I just amnewly into menopause, so my
brain will start to either fogout or obsess one or the other.
It'll either obsess oversomething Like I can't get out

(02:21):
of the cycle, or it'll fog out.
And so if I could just askmyself well, this is true, I
might break my cycle.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, totally.
And also, you know, when yousay menopause, everybody in the
room not just because we'rewomen, everybody in the world,
whatever room we'd be in, men,women, otherwise they they're
they all have preconceivednotions about what that means,
what it entails, so it's very,very easy to buy into.
Oh yeah, the brain fog isbecause of menopause.

(02:52):
It might be.
It might be yeah but but forthat to become our identity, you
know, for that is it, which is,which is what happens.
So, rather than being yoursuperpower, which is what
happens?
So, rather than being yoursuperpower, which is, I'm
experiencing brain fog.
It might be because of that.
What else is true?
And how might I manage that?
Then you can be solutionfocused.

(03:12):
Then you go.
How am I going to navigate that?
As opposed to, well, I hit thatage.
I mean, that's like.
You know the limiting beliefsthat people have about age.
We've been spoon fed all that,right, yeah definitely.