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The language of possibility

by Joanna on June 22, 2007

I’ve just been doing this with a client and thought it would be worth sharing here.  It’s an exercise that helps to shift the way you feel about things you want – or think you want – just by playing around with language patterns.  (For those that are interested it’s the difference between modal operators [...]

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It’s always time for new beginnings

by Joanna on June 1, 2007

I love the start of a new month.  It’s like the start of a new week or a new day, full of promise and possibility, only magnified. 
It’s a reminder to seize the moment.  A signal that there’s nothing to wait for.  That it’s always time for new beginnings.  You just have to decide that [...]

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Nothing here but potential

by Joanna on May 26, 2007

These were the words on a huge billboard on Edinburgh’s South Bridge: ‘Nothing Here but Potential’.  The billboard sits above a massive gap site that runs down below the bridge, a wasteland created by a devastating fire that ravaged the city’s Cowgate five years ago.   
It made me think of times when we, too, [...]

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Modal Operators

by Joanna on May 22, 2007

Modal operators are language patterns that set rules.  They are classed as generalisations in the Meta Model – because we generalise out from one experience to generate a rule ("I must" or "I can’t)
Modal operators of possibility set rules about what’s possible. 
A limiting pattern would be when we use them in the negative. 
"I [...]

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What’s in a word?

by Joanna on March 5, 2007

Words, said Kipling, are the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Words can make us feel small, and weak, and lost.  Words can lift us up, make us feel hopeful, optimistic, inspired.
Words can be used to disguise what is going on.  And yet we can also find the words to tell the most powerful truths of [...]

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