Mike Carruthers:
Self-improvement:
to most people it means to identify what's wrong and work to make
it better, to fix our deficits.
Kathryn D.
Cramer:
But what are the assets? What is working, what have I done that
makes progress happen? -Who I am, my talents, my capabilities
and my strengths.
Kathryn Cramer,
author of the book Change
The Way You See Everything Through Asset Based Thinking,
says asset based thinking is a better way to view yourself and
other people.
Here's what we're
saying and the research bears this out. You need to spend five
times more attention and effort on the positive side of the
ledger (the asset side) than you do on the deficit side - and
most of us actually have that reversed.
And perhaps that's
because of the way we were raised.
Going back to
grammar school when our grades were made up of the items that
we got wrong, instead of the items that we got right. When our
baseball coaches were telling us that what we really needed
to work on was our pitching, our batting, that was the deficit.
So, how do you
turn into an asset-based thinker? By…
Asking yourself
a very powerful question, "How did I do that?" In
the areas where I made progress, how did I do that? So that,
you get a very clear image of your personal prescriptions for
making things turn out well.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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