Using positive language will simplify your life by eliminating the following eight problems of negative language:
- Negative language is non-communication
- Negative language is destructive
- Negative language causes defensiveness
- Negative language drives communication out of control
- Negative language causes intellectual deafness
- Negative language never brings closure
- Negative language never achieves victory
- Negative language weighs more than positive language
The major benefits associated with using positive language include:
- You are in control. Using positive language helps people know what to do, what the limits are, what their assignments are and what remains to be done.
- Conversations are shorter when positive language is used. Negative language brings confusion and causes conversations, meetings, discussions and disagreements to go on and on.
- Relationships are improved through positive language. This is because the confusion caused by negative language is eliminated.