Strengths-based, positive language matters, and what receives attention grows, so focusing on our weaknesses is not in our best interest. What if I had been invited to focus on my strengths throughout my life, rather than my defects?
What if I were guided to ask what was right about me, good about me, about what I did well? We need to acknowledge our own inherent strengths.
We need to focus on our own self-determination. A strengths-based approach, not a shame-based approach, will yield much better results.
We all have potential. We all have strengths.
We are all capable. We need to find and then use the language that lifts us up and release the words that we whisper to ourselves or speak aloud that tear us down.