{"id":1111,"date":"2012-05-07T01:11:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T06:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2012-04-24T09:24:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:24:56","slug":"three-magic-words-that-erase-a-negative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/05\/three-magic-words-that-erase-a-negative\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Magic Words that Erase a Negative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>When you say or hear a negative statement, add &#8220;up until now&#8221; to erase the negative.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These magic words come from <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldmweinberg.com\/Site\/Home.html\">author and consultant Jerry Weinberg<\/a>. They are great erasers.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some examples:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am not a good writer&#8230;up until now<\/li>\n<li>I stutter when I speak in front of people&#8230;up until now<\/li>\n<li>I eat too much&#8230;up until now<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t practice enough&#8230;up until now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And here are some examples of what to say when you hear a negative statement:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We don&#8217;t follow our employees&#8217; careers enough&#8230;up until now<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t talk to people enough&#8230;up until now<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t advertise well&#8230;up until now<\/li>\n<li>We don&#8217;t care&#8230;up until now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You could become a hero be tossing in these magic words in meetings.<\/p>\n<p>One more thing.\u00a0Funny, the negative statements tell us what to do. They are the solutions to our problems. Think about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips When you say or hear a negative statement, add &#8220;up until now&#8221; to erase the negative. These magic words come from author and consultant Jerry Weinberg. They are great erasers. Here are some examples: I am not a good writer&#8230;up until now I stutter when I speak in front of people&#8230;up until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25],"tags":[154,147],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-meetings","tag-communication","tag-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}