It’s an innocuous, throwaway question, but I listen vigorously to the answer people give me.
Here are some of the ways you’ve probably answered that question to others, and others to you:
- Not too bad
- Getting there, but only just
- Could be worse
- Okay
- Keeping busy
- Fine, thanks
- I’m good
- Great!
- Awesome!
- Wonderful!
Read each one out loud and listen back.
- How does each one make you feel as you say it?
- How do you feel, imagining a person who just answered you that way?
Have you decided what you’re going to say next time you’re asked?
Jonny
PS – My default answer is “Marvellous!”