by Michael Michalko
The way we think determines our thoughts, and our thoughts determine the language we use. Pay attention to how your friends and colleagues talk. You will find that many speak a language of exclusion, a language about “what is not,” instead of “what is,” or “what can be.”
This is because we have been educated to speak in deficit by describing what is missing, what is excluded, what’s wrong, what is not there. We often describe things, good or bad, in terms of what the experiences are not. For example, this morning I ran into an old friend and …read more

What’s an unword? It’s an opportunity to: Make up words for those hard to express things and ideas in your head. It’s happening at Unwords.com.
The site, which is a wonderful time sink, allows you to look up words, and to submit your own. I think it’s a great reflection of how language can change and it would be great if they were able to track when an unword becomes “real” by going into a dictionary or two.
Write well and often,

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