Why Less Negative Thinking Can Be the Most Positive Move
Let’s start with a thought-provoking question: Which matters more — thinking more positively or thinking less negatively ? Most people instinctively reach for positive thinking. It sounds uplifting, energetic, empowering. But if you truly want to move forward faster and feel lighter, the answer isn’t more positive thinking — it’s less negative thinking. Positive thinking has its place. Hope, optimism, and vision are essential to growth. But what weighs us down isn’t usually the lack of positivity — it’s the quiet undercurrent of negativity we allow to run unchecked. It creeps in silently. The inner voice that criticizes, complains, or worries slips into our day before we even take our first sip of coffee. Leadership and performance coach Price Pritchett described how our engagement with negativity often takes shape through what he called “the attack of the five C’s” : Complaining – focusing on the problem more than the possibility. ...