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Here is a range of words that you could eliminate from your vocabulary altogether!
1. Try Go ahead, try to pick up a pencil. Now, actually pick up the pencil. Notice that difference?
2. Should/Ought Write yourself a list of 60 shoulds or oughts and feel how empowering that list is – not!
3. Want Wanting is like wishing – there are only results or reasons. Are you going to take an action to reduce the gap between here and what you want? If not, discard the want.
4. But “It’s a lovely shirt but it has a tear” or “It’s a lovely shirt and it has a tear”
Where else could you replace the word but with the word and so that you don’t waste 50% of your speech?
5. Might/May Might visit the dentist ~ May visit the dentist
~ Will visit the dentist. There’s a distinct difference!
6. Can't "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." (Henry Ford) "I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them." (Pablo Picasso).
I am certain that there is a miriad of words in our every day language that can be totally discarded or replaced with much more empowering terms.
Listen to your speaking this week and send me a list of any that you’ve noticed weakening your perspective.
2005 © Thea Westra is an international life coach who resides in Perth, Australia. She is editor and publisher of a free, monthly newsletter which you can receive by going to her website http://www.forwardsteps.com.au She also publishes a blog called Triggers http://forwardsteps.blogspot.com
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