I'm going to share one of my favorite strategies first. I'm going to guess that you like the rest of us have found yourself complaining about things you don't like in your life. It's human nature to do so but it sure doesn't make any of us feel too great. I used to teach in a classroom that was used by everyone (detention, driver's ed, night school) and all the shelves in the room were full of stuff that didn't belong to me or my students.
Every day I'd walk in, look at the shelf and say something like, "What a mess!" Then there was the day that instead of my usual comment, I asked myself a question. "What could I do to improve that way that looks?" All of a sudden my brain was flooded with possibilities. And I was able to change those shelves so that they were much improved.
Is it that easy? Instead of making a negative statement about something, turn it into a question. Statements are dead ends. Negative dead ends feel lousy. Questions are possibilities and the amazing thing is that when you ask yourself a good question, your brain comes up with all sorts of answers!
More on this next time....
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