I read this blog this morning and it caught my attention. The title of the blog is: The 10 Most Common Words You Should Stop Using Now! The Author, Tim Ferriss, lays out a list of words that are vague and over used.
Here they are (in now particular order):
1. Happiness
2. Success
3. Should
4. Responsible
5. Realistic
6. Reasonable
7. Spiritual
8. Good/Right
9. Bad/Wrong
10. Moral
I started thinking abut this . . .he is right. How many times do we use "vague" words in leadership (staff or volunteers)? I started thinking through planning meetings that do not get anywhere because I am trying to figure out what people are "really saying". Statements like: "I just don't feel that." "I am not sure if that idea is right". (What does "right" really mean anyway? Right for the person? Right for the audience? Right because you are having a bad day?)
If you would add to the list, what words would you add?
Here are a few that I would add:
1. Feel
2. Right
3. Not Creative (O.K. . . 2 words . .. and I could spend a lot of time explaining this one, but I won't.)
4. ?