Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go further faster.

On today's podcast we'll explore a question that can revolutionize how you make decisions.

Andy, today's podcast is a little different than usual because our topic has application

in personal leadership and organizational leadership.

Yeah, you're right.

I think a lot of the things that we talk about,

Lynn, both with personal application and professional application, but

today's in particular, it really does.

Well, I really am excited about today's content because it comes from a great new

book you've written that's just been released and it's called

Ask It. And what I love is the subtitle is The Question that will revolutionize how you make decisions.

Well we're going to get to the question in just a minute.

But first, where did the idea of the book come from?

Actually, this is something that I've been talking about really for 30-something years.

When I first began speaking publicly, this was a topic for me that really, again, boiled down to a simple

question. I've taught my children to ask this question, I've asked this question all my life, and every time I teach this

material or every time I share this question people

come up and say wow I wish I had heard that years ago which is their subtle way of

saying if I'd heard that years ago and ask that question I would have a lot

fewer regrets in my life and this is one of those big broad questions that applies

to every area of life that really will reduce regret I'm absolutely convinced of that.

Well you make the point in the book that a lot of the regret is associated with a lot of planning.

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