HOW TO ASK GOOD QUESTIONS
sample questions: marriage
- Tell me how you both met?
- Is there anything you would do differently the first year of your marriage?
- What habits would you say have contributed to the success of your marriage?
- Was there ever a time when your marriage was difficult? How did you deal with it?
- What would you say was the most difficult season of marriage? Why?
- What is an example of a time you had to forgive one another?
- (For Wife) How has your husband helped you become a better version of you?
- (For Husband) How has your wife helped you become a better version of you?
- How has he loved you well?
- How has she loved you well?
- How does she respect you?
- How does he honor you?
- (For Wife) Was it ever hard to respect your husband?
- What did you both learn from your greatest conflict?
- What has marriage taught you about yourself?
- How do you resolve conflict?
- How have you built unity?
- What’s something you’ve done really well in regards to your marriage?
- What’s something you didn’t do so well?
- Was your marriage ever boring or stuck? What did you do?
- How have you fought for joy in your marriage?
- What is one piece of advice you would share with me/us on how to have a good marriage?
sample questions: business
- Would you share your story with me?
- How did you start your business?
- What made you choose this type of business?
- How did you get your idea or concept for your business?
- What was your mission at the outset?
- What was your greatest challenge?
- What kind of risks did you take?
- What are some mistakes you wished you could’ve avoided?
- How did you build your team?
- To what do you attribute your success?
- What habits helped make you successful?
- How did you develop key partnerships?
- How did you get funded or what creative strategies did you use to execute on minimal cash flow?
- What do you look for in an employee?
- What made you choose your current location?
- What’s your company’s goals?
- How did you distinguish yourself from your competitors?
- What is unique about your business?
- What was unexpected?
- What did you learn?
- How can you minimize the unknowns?
- What drives you to keep going when it’s really tough?
- Have you ever had a business/concept that failed? What did you learn from it?
- What are your responsibilities as the business owner?
- How does your company help the community you’re in?
- Was there a time in your life when work/life balance was off? What happened? How did you get back on track?
- How do you personally maintain a work/life balance?
- What does your weekly schedule look like?
- (Depending on if married/children) How do you make time for your wife? For your kids? For yourself? What does that look like?
- If you had one piece of advice to someone just starting out, what would it be?
sample questions: finances
- Would you mind sharing your financial story with me?
- What practices contributed to your success/stability?
- What was your process?
- How do you put your budget together?
- What percentage of your income do you put into savings/retirement/giving?
- How did you steward the money you earned?
- What were your financial goals?
- What would you have done differently?
- If you were my age, what would you do right now financially?
- What are financial habits you have that contribute to your financial stability?
- What’s something you’ve done really well?
- What’s something you didn’t do so well?
- What the one piece of advice you would share with me/us on how to have financial success?
sample questions: Grief/Loss
- Would you mind sharing your story of grief/loss?
- How did you make it through?
- How did you process your loss?
- Did you ever feel like you wouldn’t make it through?
- Were you ever angry at God?
- Did you ever question God’s care/love for you?
- What were questions you asked God?
- What did you learn about God through this?
- Did the pain ever go away?
- (If married)…how did you process it with your spouse?
- What were some practical things you did to help “get you through it�
- What’s one piece of advice you’d give to me in my time of grieving/loss?
- What fun things have you done as a family?
- What were values you had as a family?
- What family traditions did you have?
- What was the most challenging part of raising kids?
- How did you handle relational conflict in your family?
- How did you discipline your kids?
- How did you develop a relationship with your kids at an early age? As teenagers? As adults?
- How did you develop confidence in your kids?
- How did you develop character qualities in your kids?
- What were some challenges you had with your kid(s)
- Was there one child that was harder to raise than others?
- Did you ever feel like you didn’t know what to do?
- When and how did you talk to your kids about sex?
- How did you handle technology with your kids?
- What were boundaries you set with your kids when they were teenagers?
- What did you do well?
- What did you do not so well?
- What would you do differently?
- What the one piece of advice you would share with me?
