3 Ways To Turn Negative Situations Into Positive Ones
1. When you talk, listen to yourself for the “buts,” “could ofs” and “gonnas” in your own conversations and those of people around you. Zap those negatively charged words and phrases from your own vocabulary.
2. Create scenarios in which you may have reacted negatively in the past and envision yourself responding in the future with a positive charge.
For example: Your boss hands back a report saying it is unsatisfactory and telling you to redo it.
In the past you might have made excuses and blamed co-workers or conditions. Now you respond by thanking the boss for the opportunity to improve it.
3. Consider a problem or difficult situation in your life. Is it something that you can change? Or is it something you have no control of? Positively charged people learn to attack those problems that they can change and to live with those that they cannot - thereby robbing the problem of its power over them.
If you cannot change the problem, change the way you view it.
Example: “My employer is going to lay me off for three weeks.” Positive response: “I can spend the time seriously looking for a better, more secure job.”
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