April 11, 2010Reader gracefully gets chronically late passenger to come on time
Meryl : A co-worker was wanting to meet at my house to ride with me to a meeting. I assured her she was welcome and asked what time she thought we ought to leave. She said 9:00 so my power statement was,
- Fantastic, my car will be leaving the driveway at 9:00.
She had the reputation of always being late but after my comment, she laughed and said I sounded just like her Aunt Mary. We commuted for 6 days and she was NEVER late!
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Pingback by Poison Phrase: Don’t be late | A PowerPhrase a Week — April 12, 2010 @ 9:56 am
What a great phrase — I like how upbeat it is. Even when you know someone is chronically late (as I have been known to be…) it really doesn’t help the situation to pre-accuse them of lateness for a particular event by saying “don’t be late” or something similar. Positive phrases always seem to have much more power than negative. I think it’s because we learn throughout our lives to build defenses against the negative. Thus negative phrases, while they can still be powerful, don’t necessarily change our behavior like positives can.
Comment by Grace — April 14, 2010 @ 9:35 pm