Is Negative The New Positive Way Of Thinking?

For years business gurus and motivational speakers have been lecturing the world that we should all think positive. Many key people have built huge mega earning careers on the foundation stones of positive visualisation, SMART objectives and personal mantras for optimal success in the business world.



So it would seem that positive is all we need to achieve anything in our hearts desire!


Dan Pink in the Sunday Telegraph this week, (professed shock horror), that we should all think a bit of negativity into our lives to get a balance on the positive. It’s quite a revolutionary concept that certainly caught my attention and caused me to reflect on it for several days.


His article is basically saying that instead of thinking about what we want to do we should instead spent time thinking about what we don’t want to do. He goes on to suggest that approximately every six months we should review and update our don’t want to list.



So my question is - what don’t you want to do?



When I asked myself the same question I really struggled, after a few days sitting at traffic lights and pondering, this is all I came up with:-



I don’t want to:-



waste my time

focus on the small stuff in my life



...after these two I’ve stalled! I can’t think of anything else that I don’t want to do. I suspect it is because I’ve spent so long thinking about what I do want to do, my brain refuses to generate can’t when it is so hard wired to programme can!



PS I only bought the Sunday Telegraph for the feature on my local florist Miss Pickering who was featured in Life Magazine section…but more of that tomorrow.