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One Word Can Make a World of Difference in Your Stress Levels
What if I told you that replacing one word with a single different word could instantly lower your stress levels?
Not just lower them, but chop them to pieces?!?
This one word change could actually prevent some of that stress from even happening in the first place. Imagine that!
(That right there is mind-blowing for some people. We can get so immersed in the idea of “stress management,” that we forget sometimes that we can do things so the stress doesn’t even happen in the first place. After all, you don’t have to “manage” stress if it is non-existent.)
Hmmmmm.
While you ponder that epiphany, let me introduce you to a simple trick to make this happen for you.
Anytime you use the word “should,” replace it with the word “could.”
When we say or think “should,” we are chastising ourselves. That word is full of blame and regret and self-bullying. It has NO place in your vocabulary if you’re looking to grow.
However, there are times when we believe we “should” have done something differently (“I should have said that in a nicer way”) or we “should” have done something different than we did (“I should have eaten only one donut instead of three”).
