Sometimes taking initiative is just about collaborating with others. Other times it needs courage to take the risk. Explaining our insight is sometimes the hardest part of initiating something, especially for multilingual thinkers. (At times I can easily articulate or describe things in Finnish but trying to do the same in English becomes a struggle just because of the differences between the two languages.) Still, initiating a discussion that might be harder than expected is a wonderful way to engage in collaborative problem-solving!
We can coach ourselves to prepare for harder discussions - like the ones where we likely need to disagree with someone. In disagreements it is very important to use
Positive Regard to reframe our perception and detach the behavior from the person so that we can respond, not react. I think this is the basic rule for polite disagreements in general.
I was excited to be in the forest and see this
amazing mushroom. While others might think is is useless and proably poisonous (not really, but I still wouldn't eat it). I think it is very pretty and it just made me happy to see it as I had not seen one before. I am glad that a person in our mushroom hunting group showed it to me!
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