Accentuate the positive!
I have seen two clients this week who were both completely mired in negativity. They could have spent the whole session telling me what they didn’t want or what was bad about their life or situation.
My role, I believe, is to enable people to discover what they DO want. To get a sense, a picture, a vision if you like of what a good future will look like and to focus on that, developing the idea and expanding it wider and wider, adding detail all the time.
There was never truer expression than, “What we resist, persists”.
So next time you hear yourself saying, “I hate my job/partner/family situation”, ask yourself what your ideal life would look like - what do you love and where do you want to be - and focus on that. You’ll be surprised how empowering an exercise it can be.