How Kind Are You?

Step #2: Give authentic praise

The next step of the Challenge is to find one thing to authentically praise each day – and tell your person and someone else. The beauty of this step is that rather than seeing the negatives and rehearsing them, you’re actually training your mind to look for the positive attributes of your spouse, child, or whomever, and then dwelling on those instead.

In other words, instead of letting off steam about how your colleague left early so you had to cover the full shift until closing, you are looking for things to praise … and you notice just how caring and attentive your colleague was with a difficult customer. You tell them how much you appreciate how they handled it – and you tell the boss that, too.