VOCABULARY: Replace negative poison phrases with positive power phrases

Replace negative poison phrases with positive power phrases

Be careful of negative poison phrases. You know the ones. They get you so focused on what you do not want that that’s all you can think about. That leaves no room for what you want!

Your mind makes sense of positives more easily than negatives. Put your focus on what you want, not on what you do not want. Talk about how you will solve a problem or what you learned from a mistake more than you talk about the problem. Draw attention to your strengths, and take the emphasis off your weaknesses.

Any time you find yourself ready to express a negative, ask yourself what the upside is and speak from that perspective.