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Win Make Give with Ben Kinney

The Power of Positivity: How to Reframe These 11 Negative Phrases

Win Make Give with Ben Kinney

Ben Kinney Training

Education, Self-improvement

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Negative phrases like "Life isn't fair," "I never should have," or "I have to" strip away confidence. In this episode, Bob Stewart and Chad Hyams break down some common phrases we all have used at some point in our lives and ways to rephrase them for a positive mindset.

In this episode, we cover the following sayings and how to reframe them:

  • Life's not fair [3:10]  
  • I can't do that [5:41]
  • This is too complicated [6:47]
  • Never or always [8:40]
  • I never should have [11:03]
  • It's never going to change [12:01]
  • I/We failed [14:17]
  • I have to [15:43]
  • Why is this happening to me? [17:52]
  • I should do that [19:42]
  • If I had only [22:55]

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0:00.0

Welcome to the win make give podcast. I wonder if that's what I should say at the beginning

0:12.2

in this episode. Well, by the end of this episode, I will know if that's what I should

0:16.2

be saying at the beginning of this episode. Chad Himes here, Bob Stewart there, Bob Stewart,

0:21.6

how are you today? Well, I was confused. Like, I actually thought that you had messed

0:26.2

yourself up because I wasn't really paying attention when you started. You know, I was

0:29.7

doing something else and you were like, okay, I just finished that. I'm going to get started.

0:33.1

So you got started and I just heard you going and then I heard you like stop and I thought

0:37.2

you'd been messed up. But you actually, I was very cute what you did. I see what you

0:40.4

did. See what I did there, Bob, because today we are going to talk to our audience about

0:44.1

things not to say. That's right. We have put together a list doing some research on some

0:51.2

of those things out there that a lot of us say that we should stop saying, right? And

0:57.3

Bob, there's a lot of those, right? I mean, and I'm not talking like, Bob, you shouldn't

1:01.7

say that word in front of your kids because it's an adult word, right? That's not what we're

1:05.8

talking about. Not talking about swearing. I'm not talking about even one of the words

1:10.2

that I don't like, right? I don't like the word try, right? So that's a word. But we're

1:17.0

going to talk about some phrases, more than just words, some phrases that people say

1:22.0

regularly, that they shouldn't be saying. And these are specific to the idea of like

1:28.8

negativity and confidence, right? These are the ends. Well, these are things that tend

1:35.4

to be these kind of, I mean, a lot of these phrases are just these little, I would call

1:40.6

them like microaggressions against your confidence. They're these little things that just, they

1:45.5

get implanted on your brain and you say them enough, right? And over time, you know, saying

1:49.9

any one of these things once is not going to destroy your confidence. But the cumulative

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