31/01/2024
Today is my birthday 🎆🎈🥳
It also coincides with the end of Kalma Life UK .
Feeling inspired to practice what they preach, I've decided that 38 will be a new chapter 📚
💜 I'm saying 'NO' to negativity
💜 I'm saying 'NO' to unnecessary stress
💜 I'm saying 'NO' to toxic people
It might not be your birthday 🎈 but I urge you to do the same 💜
Take good care 🙏💕
Cass x
💜Kalma Self Care Month 💜
Day 29 - No to negativity! 👎🚫🙅♀️
When you’re naturally a glass-half-empty kind of person, hearing slogans like “Think positive!” can make you feel like you’re an occasional jogger being told to run a marathon… tomorrow.
Before you can implement positivity strategies—and reap their benefits of improved health, better relationships and more happiness—you have to start by decreasing negativity.
We collected the best negativity reduction tips from psychologists, coaches and authors to help you identify your look-on-the-gray-side habits and begin to chip away at them.
There’s a shiny bright side waiting for you!
💜Set reasonable goals.
A lot of people who see the negative side of things also tend to put themselves down because they set huge, intimidating goals that are difficult to attain. So instead of saying, “I’m going to write a book this year!” start with a goal of signing up for a writers’ class or completing three pages instead.
✅Turn “problems” into “challenges.”
Try creating a list of negative words or phrases that you use often and replace them with ones that are a bit more positive. If you regularly complain of problems, for example, start referring to them as challenges instead. Eliminate the phrase “I should…” from your self-talk, too, and replace it with “I could choose to… “Should” carries obligation, dread and resentment. “Choose” puts you in the driver’s seat, as in “I could choose to do this laundry now so that I can relax tonight.” While it may seem like simple semantics, the words you use every day in your self-talk can have a real effect on your attitude.
🚫 Reset your default answer.
People who are naturally negative tend to use no as their first response to new ideas and experience. In part, they do this to buy time while actually making a decision, but then they end up defending the ‘no’ choice and sticking to it, even at times when they might not have.” Default instead to “I’m not sure; give me a minute,” she suggests. Then try to find a good reason to say yes before you say no.
