She Snippets: What’s the Best That Could Happen?

Most of us know the question well: what’s the worst that can happen? We reach for it when we’re weighing up a decision, trying to talk ourselves into something, or quietly bracing for things to go wrong. In this She Snippet, Rachel Russell of Quiet Frankly Coaching introduces us to one of her favourite tools from neurolinguistic programming — the reframe. And she offers a simple but powerful inversion: instead of preparing for the worst, what if we allowed ourselves to imagine the best? It’s a shift that’s lighter than you’d expect, and more transformative than it first appears.

In This Snippet

Rachel explores:

•       The concept of reframing — looking at a situation through a different lens and how that shift changes what we see and what we invite into our lives

•       Why our unconscious mind doesn’t filter what we tell it — it believes it all, which means the stories we choose to focus on genuinely shape our experience

•       A beautiful reframe to carry with you: swapping what’s the worst that can happen? for what’s the best that could happen? — and how that one question can lighten your day

Quotable Moment

“When we add a reframe, it is really empowering because it then changes the way we see our world and then changes the things that are coming to our world.” — Rachel Russell

Something to Try

The next time you catch yourself asking what’s the worst that can happen?, pause and try Rachel’s reframe: what’s the best that could happen? Notice what it does to your body, your mood, the way you hold the decision in front of you. You might find, as Rachel describes, that you’re smiling before you even finish the sentence.

About Rachel

Rachel Russell is the founder of Quiet Frankly Coaching, based in Bunbury, Western Australia.

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