What happens when you ask your kids at the dinner table “what happened at school today?”

Nothing, of course.  Ask a thousand times and get a thousand answers the same.

And that’s assuming you are not making these two mistakes:  no family dinnertime together and no cellphones allowed at the table.

What I am about to suggest works with young people and helps retrain their brains to think positively – and here’s the best part – this works at the office as well.

“What happened that was good today?”

This is how you build optimism.  It helps build on success.  Gets us and others away from fixating on problems and focusing on opportunity.

At the end of a meeting you are running, try “Tell me something good you can take away from our time together”.  Do this often and it will get a seamless response.

Even in one-on-one relationships to ask another person, “Tell me something good” that happened when we spent the weekend together and you will be changing negative talk to positive interactions.

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