Positive affirmations are positive statements your team can use to counter negative self-talk.
When your team replace the negative with the positive, they may:
Your team can use positive affirmations to help maintain focus for personal and professional goals.
You can do this activity together or remotely.
Everyone just needs a piece of paper and a pen.
This is a good activity to put at the start or end a regular team meeting.
This a rough schedule of how you can run the session.
The key thing is to set a timer for each section of your session and stick to each time.
When people have a limited time to think, they’ll focus on the things that matter to them the most.
Explain to your team what you want to get out of this activity:
Reinforce the message of why you’re doing this:
Ask your team to write down the negative thoughts they’ve had at work or behaviours they want to change, such as:
Ask each person in your team to write down a positive affirmation for each negative thought, such as:
With what your team has written down, get them to put these somewhere prominent so they see them each day.
This could be a post-it note stuck to their computer screen or on their bedside table.
Encourage them to look at these each day and read each affirmation to themselves 5 times.
You can also tear up the negative thoughts as a cleansing exercise.