positivity

Time starts now... 11:18pm

I went to a Positive Leadership training today that lasted for 3 hours. It really took me back to the days when we were at conference with David Pollock - he was a really great speaker on positive psychology. So I knew that all this stuff was true and not bullshit - like some of the managers would think.

The difference was there was a general focus on becoming more positive and optimistic rather than only focusing on your strengths. This includes mirror neurons - these funky things in our brains that make us act the same as other's do (when you smile to someone, they smile back), and other scientific studies into positiveness.

So one of the take home exercises is to do an action that makes you more positive everyday. To make it a habit you have to do it 21 days in a row at the same time. My good and positive habit will be to journal for 5 minutes everyday. It has to be about something positive that has happened to me today.

Hopefully after 21 days I will be an expert optimist!! That's the goal :D Although I think I'm already quite an optimistic person to begin with, the speaker Shawn Achor said optimists can become expert optimists and super optimists. Just don't smile like a crazy person all the time ;)

Times up! 11:23pm -- wow I wrote a lot!