Ya. Now that you point it out, that's a glaring omission.
It was a great deal of effort to monitor myself, flag the negative stuff, dig down to determine my actual root goal, and then figure out some kind of alternate positive framing.
Complimentary to this was learning that all negatives can be stated as a positive. (Something I got from an in-house corporate communications seminar, if you can believe that.)
My go to example from parenting is to say "Please walk" instead of "Don't run!". It was super effective!
(Transformed my parenting. Used my son as my guinea pig. I hadn't yet learned about positive reinforcement, which is really too bad.)
So. I'll start journaling expressions, as I remember them.
It was a great deal of effort to monitor myself, flag the negative stuff, dig down to determine my actual root goal, and then figure out some kind of alternate positive framing.
Complimentary to this was learning that all negatives can be stated as a positive. (Something I got from an in-house corporate communications seminar, if you can believe that.)
My go to example from parenting is to say "Please walk" instead of "Don't run!". It was super effective!
(Transformed my parenting. Used my son as my guinea pig. I hadn't yet learned about positive reinforcement, which is really too bad.)
So. I'll start journaling expressions, as I remember them.
Thanks.