{"id":1256,"date":"2015-05-01T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2015-05-03T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T14:54:20","slug":"interrogative-self-talk-vs-positive-self-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/interrogative-self-talk-vs-positive-self-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Interrogative Self-Talk vs. Positive Self-Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Positive Self-Talk has been something I always do before a presentation or game. It is good to be positive and uplifting to yourself, but through class and our readings we have found a better way to prepare yourself, through Interrogative Self-Talk. Interrogative Self-Talk is simply asking yourself questions on how you could improve and answering them yourself. <\/p>\n<p>Interrogative Self-Talk<br \/>\n\t1. Questions set us up to pursue real answers. They give us problems to solve and solutions to seek, answers to find.<br \/>\n\t2. They inspire us to look for motivations and reasons within, resulting in real action. The power of authentic motivation is unleashed in addressing the question.<\/p>\n<p>When you are simply being positive it is building you up, but this &#8220;fake-it-till-you-make-it&#8221; approach can cause you to sell yourself on something that does not match reality. This goes hand in hand with positive ratios as well. It is important to be positive, but no so positive as to block out reality. When in sales you need to keep this balance and apply it to interrogative self-talk so you are asking yourself questions about a potential negative situation and how you would recover from that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Positive Self-Talk has been something I always do before a presentation or game. It is good to be positive and uplifting to yourself, but through class and our readings we have found a better way to prepare yourself, through Interrogative Self-Talk. Interrogative Self-Talk is simply asking yourself questions on how you could improve and answering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}