How a Simple Morning Ritual Helps to Overcome Negativity

22 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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Jayson Lowe explains a daily team ritual called a "positive power up" where team members share one personal and one professional positive each morning. He argues this practice shifts the brain’s focus toward positive information ("your eyes only see, your ears only hear what your brain is looking for"), helps counteract negative thinking, and sets the team up for a better day. The speaker emphasizes regular, daily practice and its practical benefits.

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What is one thing that I do alongside my teammates on a daily basis in our business to get our day off to a great start? We always begin with a positive power up. And so as a group, we share something, both personally and professionally that we're just feeling very positive about, because that immediately changes the chemistry in your brain to be focused on the positive. Your eyes only see, your ears only hear what your brain is looking for. And so if you're focused on the negative, that's what you're looking for, versus if you can rethink your thinking, snap yourself out of we're all human, we're fallible, we have bad days. But if you can find that positive power up, personally and professionally, it really does set you on a great course for the rest of the day. And so we do that religiously every single day as a team, and it serves us extremely well.