03-07-2016 07:00 via theguardian.com

How to avoid the ‘Don’t miss!’ mindset

Telling people what not to do is a good way to make them do it. It’s best to focus on positives, says Dave AlredLanguage can influence and reframe your perception of what you experience. Take a very simple example: are you a glass-half-full or a glass-half-empty type? The common attitude is that to see the glass half-full is more positive than seeing it half-empty. To put it another way, half-full is what you have got and half-empty is what you are missing. Reframing is simply taking a sit
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