Change Your Vocabulary, Change Your Life

Changing your vocabulary and the habitual words you choose to use on a daily basis will, and can, change your world. The way we describe every moment of every day with our internal dialogue and with people we are talking to shapes our experience. 

Was that cat video on YouTube hilarious or was it just silly? Was that movie you watched horrifying or just scary? Is your partner irritating you or driving you bananas? Did you have a phenomenal vacation with your significant other or just a good one? 

Think about swearing and how much we use swearing as "intensifiers" in our language.  For many of my clients swearing is like rocket-fuel. It's one of the reasons I encourage them to be very careful when/if they do swear because it can take them from zero to 60 in just a few seconds.  

Now think for a moment how positive your language patterns are. Would people describe your language as happy-go-lucky with your glass half-full, serious and straight to the point or maybe negative with a glass half-empty approach to life? 

What you say and how you say it makes a huge difference in what you experience and how you live your life and experience everyday moments. 

To help you start expanding your experience through your vocabulary I've provided a link to Elly Prior's list of human emotions and feelings. Elly is a counselor and founder of professional-counselling.com  (1)

The list is a great way to show you how you can take a typical word like anger and expand your experience by choosing a different word such as frustrated, inadequate or trapped. As you can see, the base of the emotion may come out as anger but if you can learn to dig a little deeper you'll realize that you're actually not angry - you're something else. That can change your world and the way you express who you are. 

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About the Author: 

Speaker. Developer. Collaborator. 
Storyteller. Christian. 
I am a husband to my gorgeous and gifted wife Kate and a lucky father of three amazing kids. My company, LifeWorks Group is based in the Twin Cities and focuses on strategic interventions of relationships in the workplace and at home. Over the past five years I have had the privilege and honor of working with hundreds of couples helping improve their relationships and working with organizations to improve employee morale, team dissatisfaction, and creating synergy in the workplace. 

To learn more about Zachary and LifeWorks Group visit: www.lovecommitsucceed.com

Citation:

(1) Elly Prior, "List of Human Emotions and Feelings". http://www.professional-counselling.com/list-of-human-emotions-and-feelings.html  

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