6 Words to Remove from Your Vocabulary

By communicating certain words more than others, you directly affect your outlook and direction of your life. – Ellie Parvin

Words can affect the way we are perceived, make friends, make points, and make our voices heard. They can even influence our own mental health.

By communicating certain words more than others, you directly affect your outlook and direction of your life.

Sounds sensational, but it is hard to deny the power of words. Carefully crafting your message can also result in more successful business conversions and conversations.

The following are six words you should work to remove from your vocabulary:

Always and Never

Speaking in absolutes will get you in trouble, especially from a professional or business perspective. In our personal life it is more typical to hear people use these two words and exaggeration of details as they don’t quite carry the immediate consequences you would see in a more serious manner. Like all other words, though, ‘never’ and ‘always’ still carry psychological effects when they are used all the time. This is especially true when referring to oneself and your abilities. If you think something will never happen, it probably won’t as you will subconsciously work against that thing or dream. Same goes for something that always happens. You don’t realize it but, those words carry more power than you think.

Can’t

This word carries on from the previous point about negative thoughts turned into actions. When you envision yourself doing something, rather than saying you can’t, you will overcome whatever physical or mental limitation you assume you have that is preventing you from doing something. Chide yourself, your friends, or colleagues if you hear them say “can’t” because that word does not exist in successful people’s vocabularies.

Actually and But

These two words are notorious for sending a negative message to your client or customer. When you have the need to correct someone, you can still do that without using these two words. You could simply redirect them with an “okay” or “right” following the correct information or continuation of instructions.

Mistake or Failure

If you can turn your mistakes into learning experiences, then they don’t sound quite as bad, do they? You should change the way you communicate with others in this way as well. We grow up fearing making mistakes, when we know that all of us make them. So, this is why these mistakes are mental obstacles that should be rewritten and stripped from their power that they have over us.

Reclaim it through your vocabulary and live life without fear. Your positive attitude will then rub off on others and they will look at you as a stronger person because of it.

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