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5. What tells you that you can do that?Examples:• What tells you that you can be on time?• What tells you that you can do well in your work?• What tells you that you have everything ready for the meeting?6. Questions about solutions or ideas. Examples:• What are your plans?• What thoughts cross your mind?• What kind of solution can you think of?• What do you think your parents or your teachers are expecting?• What do you assume what kind of advantages will you have supposeyou are going to ignore the teachers or the parents command?Scaling questionsImagine a scale from 1–10: 10 stands for the moment when the goalmentioned in the conversation is met. 1 is just the opposite to that ortimes when things were at their worst. Once you have explained this tothe client you can ask “On this scale of 1 to 10, where would yousay you are right now?”Make sure you always define very carefully the ten. The definition of the1 is easy as it is just the opposite of 10.Once you have understood where the client is on this scale,you can ask different questions:• Suppose you moved one step up from where you are now, what willyou be doing then, what you are not doing right now?• What else will you be doing?• What will your best friend notice as a difference when you havemoved one step up?18