Hii my name is William Walczak, and i'm the CEO of Hiilite and this is Tina.
I'm the Chief Design Officer of Hiilite. We want to talk to you about
something that's near and dear to our hearts and that is: How we can overcome
negative thoughts and how we can overcome adversity. In this past week
we've had a couple of difficult things happen to us we've had a death and we've
had it one of our clients tell us that they have cancer and they're actually
shutting down their business. So what we wanted to do is let you guys know what
we do when something difficult happens. So what do you do? Well typically we
follow three steps and we have a short little acronym for you to help you
remember this so it's "MAL" and what that stands for is
having a positive mindset, having positive actions and having positive
language. So positive mindset is actually just practicing and making sure that you
think positively about things, reminding yourself about the good things.
Journaling for example works really well. Tina listens to podcasts every single
morning that help her. It's purely inspirational and it's actually
something that that really helps me too. Last Friday I was feeling like very
lazy I made a hundred excuses why I shouldn't work out, but instead forced
myself to go to the gym and by the time I was there I was totally re-energized.
Rather than just waiting for myself to feel ready to do something I actually
did it and then while I was doing the positive behavior I started to feel
better. So that's a good example and you'll actually pull people in, I knew
that she was going so I went too. Yeah so and thank you for coming. It meant a
lot. No thank you so much for pushing. So your health is extremely important and
that's one of those reminders this past week is you can be as successful as you
want but if you don't have your health it doesn't really matter. Schedule
your health, schedule meals, schedule workouts. So that's positive actions and
the last one was language when you're feeling negative it's easy to talk about
how hard everything is. Will always says this, rather than phrasing it, "I'm having
a hard time". Saying "there's an opportunity for growth." "There's an
opportunity to learn something here." "I'm excited for..." So just by changing your
language a little bit can really help shift
the other things the mindset the actions. If you have any other ways of
overcoming negative thoughts please write them in the comments below as well.
The more we share and the more we talk about these things the better we can do.
We look forward to seeing any other suggestions you have in the comments.