How often have you tried to start something you've been avoiding by saying to yourself:
“I should just do that thing”?
Unfortunately, the phrase rarely, if ever, gets us moving. Instead, we might slump into a pile and call ourselves lazy.
While trying to get ourselves to work, we've also introduced this insidious culprit - the word “just”.
The word "just" so readily slips into our speech. It’s as if we’re trying to say that the work, whatever work we are avoiding, is easy. Once we start, we'll be moving.
Using the word “Just” is often an unconscious attempt to trivialize the emotions of the work or at least those that surround starting it.
It’s not easy. We know it when we hit a wall. But since the word is so often unconsciously invoked, we don’t see the wall.
In today’s episode, The Story of the Word "Just", we look at “just” as the gatekeeper and what we can do to transform it into a signal that lets us decide for ourselves.
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Kourosh
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