Words matter. This week Shannon and Janine discuss how shifting our language just a hair can shift our outcomes.
Discussion topics include:
- Shannon survived the Portland heat wave!
- The value of shifting your language
- Changing “should” or “need to” to “choose to” can be very powerful
- How “need to” puts you into flight or fight mode
- The calming effect of “choose to”
- How digging into why some tasks are important can help you choose to do them
- Reframing your language to shift you into “good enough” mode
- The power of the name you give a space
- Experiencing the impact of subtle shifts of language
- How changing language requires changing some habits
- Janine’s hand-lettered “What do I choose to do?” note that you can download from the show notes
- A living example: We changed our podcast tagline from “overcome” to “let go of” in early 2019
- Cutting yourself some slack as you make things changes in your language
- Thinking about the language you use in communicating with others
- How a shift in language can make you more productive
Here’s the note Janine created for her bulletin board, as promised. You’re welcome to right- or control-click on the image and download it for yourself!
Link:
Episode 34: Letting Go (About 13 minutes, we make realization we should change our tagline.)
The opposite may hold true as well: if you can’t honestly say that you chose to do something maybe it is something that you should be choosing not to do. If you are a minimalist trying to clear away anything that does not add to your life this may give you some clues.