Choosing Your Words Carefully
Idioms
Positive or Negative
From 1st Review
From 2nd Review
100
This is where you introduce the topic and then tell people how wonderful you are.
Bait and brag (This is not highly recommended as a strategy to encourage success!)
100
A task that can be accomplished very easily.
A Piece of Cake
100
You give compliments
Positive
100
Both parties feel that there is no way to agree on the topic and will decide that it is a topic that they have very different perspectives on (which can be ok)
Agree to disagree
100
Looking at things in a way that makes them seem bigger or smaller than they really are
Binocular Vision
200
This is where you introduce the topic, but then you just talk about it. You provide information that does not make you look fabulous.
Bait and comment (This strategy helps you to introduce a topic to others.)
200
Be patient.
Hold Your Horses
200
You have a Flexible Brain
Positive
200
One or both parties agree to some level of sacrifice to prevent a continued conflict
Compromise
200
Looking at things in only extreme or opposite ways (like: thinking of things as being good or bad, never or always, all or none)
Black-and-white thinking
300
This is where you introduce the topic, but then you want to find out about how other people think.
Bait and support (This strategy is usually pretty successful.)
300
When you already have it good and get something on top of what you already have.
Icing On The Cake
300
You use Happy and Kind words
Positive
300
A powerful emotion of extreme unhappiness and dislike towards someone or something when you feel threatened or harmed
Anger
300
Thinking about only the negative parts of things
Dark glasses
400
When you introduce a topic and then lie about what happened or didn’t happen to make yourself look better to that person.
Bait and lie (not recommended!!)
400
A very loud and noisy rain storm.
Raining Cats and Dogs
400
You look unhappy, mad, or have a sour face.
Negative
400
This will help you plan every part of your day, from the moment you wake up to the moment you crawl into bed at night
Daily Schedule
400
Making predictions about what will happen in the future without enough evidence
Fortune-telling
500
When you introduce a topic and you give too much information at one time.
Bait and getting flung overboard
500
Feeling ill or sick.
Under the weather
500
You have a Rock Brain.
Negative
500
The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group
Culture
500
Blaming yourself for things that are not your fault
Making it personal