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How to spot and fix unhelpful words for powerful change

A service door near Montreal’s Lachine Canal (photo by B. Lorraine Smith, Oct 2023; graffiti artists unknown)

Have you ever noticed how your words shape your deeds? I don’t mean in the, “I think I can, I think I can” way. I mean something even simpler yet potentially troublesome, especially if we aim to make big changes.

Our words are instructions to ourselves. Unhelpful instructions obviously don’t help…