Nope, it’s not about cleavers. Read on. I’ve always been known as a Pollyanna, accused of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses. “Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt,” a quote by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, hangs above my computer and rests at the bottom of my emails. But you know what? It isn’t always that easy. Sometimes I have to rely on a psychological technique called reframing— casting a negative in positive terms. A simple example would be calling an overly chatty person “gregarious” rather than “blathering.” My tendency to be overcommitted might be reframed as “involved,” “engaged,” or...

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