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Kathryn Cramer:
But what are the assets? What is working, what I've 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 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.

Tomorrow, how imitation can be the unsung ingredient to success- I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.