Increase your Influence with Positive Speech

It seems that negative words weigh five times as much as positive words. Negativity is memorable.

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.