Emotional Vocabulary

 Life is made of a series of emotional moments. Moments which make us stronger and weaker in a matter of a few seconds. Emotions have this beautiful capability of taking away our ability to think in just a few seconds. 

Emotions cloud judgment, we have often heard this phrase. But can we really understand what this means? Let us today analyse the impact of words on emotions and thereby judgment. 

Look at this phrase

Big Hairy Audacious Goal - The term was coined by Jim Collins to facilitate an urgent, creative splurge, to focus on the big picture and drives us to full potential. Even though his book came out in 1994, I only heard the term some 27 years later as part of a training program and I kept reading it as bhag (as in the Hindi word for run ) instead of BHAG it is originally supposed to be. Just so you know the impact can be dramatically different. 

On one hand where BHAG is supposed to get you all motivated and geared for action; bhag had the opposite impact on me. 

I studied Neuro Linguistic Programing some 10 years back and realized how spoken words can make or break a deal based on how we connect with them. The interesting aspect to this also is that we do not have any realization as to how this can work for us. So here is a tip

- Talk Constructively- Positivity/negativity is an oversell and I cannot emphasise enough on the role of constructurve feedback and even dialogue, which include areas of learnings and most importantly value gain. 

- Clarity- Every conversation has an objective. Sounds rather  selfish but one needs to have clear expectations from every conversation to maximise time and value and decrease pain of misplaced expectation. 

- Be in Tune- We love expressing, however if your receiver is not in a mode to receive it then your time and effort both are ineffective. 

Be very intune with yourself, and most of the time the rest falls in place.