Last week we posted a blog article presenting 7 daily practices/tips that you can easily do to start yourself on the MindShifting path. 

These are simple tasks, accomplished one each day, that will begin to move you from your limbic ‘survival-based’ mindset toward a more Sage-like mindset. A short but powerful journey that will help you interact more effectively with yourself and others.

We received some strong feedback from that first list and so, here are your potentially daily Mindshifting practices for this week:

1. Before criticizing, coaching, or correcting another person, pause and ask yourself, “What would make this interaction more fun for both of us?”

2.  At least once when someone disagrees with you, pause and ask yourself, “If I were curious, exploratory, or playful, what are three possible ways of responding?”

3. At least once when you interact with someone ask yourself two questions:

• What could I say that would really get them angry?
• What is the opposite of that?

4. Find three instances where you can compliment someone on some character strength they exhibited. No criticism, no feedback. Just praise. Three times. “I saw how you showed the _____ strength today when you _______. Well done.”

5. At least once before reacting to something somebody does or says, ask yourself: “In ten years, is this going to seem important?”

6. At least once, when someone tells you something they are about to do, don’t disagree, don’t offer alternatives, respond: “That’s one approach. If it turned out you couldn’t do that, what are there other things you could try?”

7. At some point when you feel like correcting someone, coaching them, or telling them what to do, find some character strength of theirs and tell how what they did or are thinking of doing relates to that character strength. Strength-based feedback is a lot more powerful than criticism.

As I mentioned in last week’s post, throughout January we were offering exactly these kinds of daily tips through my linkedin ‘MindShifting in Education’ page, so feel free to go scroll through them.

Hope you find these helpful, and if you do, i would love to hear from you in the comments. : )