What is more important – to increase your positive thoughts or the decease your negative thinking?

 Here are some interesting points:

To minimise negative thinking is more important than to increase positive thinking.

Negative thinking shows up as negative self-talk.

We are not aware of 70% of our negative thinking.  Unperceived.

Negative thinking shows up in our speech as complaining, criticising, concern about stuff outside of your control, commiserating and catastrophising.

We must learn to cut out the negative thinking so that we can become more confident in ourselves. How do we fight back against negative self-talk?  We must catch it (become aware of the negative self-talk), we must check it against reality (create doubt) and change it to positive (reframe it to e.g. I am not ….).

Complaining must become solution-focused dialogue

Criticising must become constructive feedback.

Concern must become constructive caution.

Commiserating must become empathetic engagement.

Catastrophising must become proportional perspective, with the focus on actionable steps.

Self-imposed change is therefore required.   Have a brilliant and constantly improving 2025!

“If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.” Price Pritchett

Based on the work of Price Pritchett & Arley Hoskin.