Ice Chip #10
I want to take a moment and thank all of you who read the Ice Chips. I really appreciate your feedback and comments.
I also want to welcome several of you who are fairly new to receiving the Ice Chips. Thank you for joining the Remember the Ice family. This week is Ice Chip #10, and if you would like any of the previous entries, please let me know in a reply email, and I will be happy to send the ones you may have missed.
Now back to diving into the process of Re-Education. In the previous two installments, we focused on understanding the four-step process of Education. One of the critical steps is your conviction to be fully engaged in the process--to be willing to do the necessary steps for learning your new skill.
As you make the decision to re-learn speaking without "(k)notty words", you first must acknowledge that is what you want to do. (This is your New Intellectual Insight)
Now comes the step of doing something you have done for years---and doing it in a different way. Playing with the (k)nots in your language and figuring out how to untie them is the best way to begin. The focus required serves several purposes. While you are learning to eliminate confusion from your rhetoric, you're learning to choose words that create clarity. You are also learning how and why some words are disempowering, and how to replace them with words and phrases that are empowering instead.
You may recall those bold comments from the previous Ice Chip.....that is because Repetition is the Mother of Skill.
(This is where the Converting Practice starts to take place)
Focus on developing a New Intellectual Insight of shifting away from the "(k)notty words" and commit to doing what is necessary in your Converting Practice.
So now it may feel a bit weird to be speaking in a new way, because you are used to an old response -- hence the confusion. We will be talking about that tug-of-war in our next issue......
Have a great week.
Best regards,
Bob
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