Leveraging the language we (actually) use to lighten the 🧠 load.
“Like carrots, the way we word our cognitions often carries uncounted calories.
Some words are necessary and nourishing (like leading us to see the light in the dark, just like 🥕🥕🥕!) and others are too heavy, too hard, and too hella bent on weighing us down and making more work for us!
The best part is, knowing a little grows goes a long way.”
— Kathy Rast, Little Language Matters*
We utter most words without thinking. And yet, it’s our words that are both a part of and shape our thinking.
While the complexity of the multidirectional connections of our cognitions could (and often does) have one curled up in the corner on most days.
There are times the corner is the best option (there’s a reason we call it a ‘cosy corner’!).
On most days though, we need (and want) to find another way.
“Our language is often a latent part of our days where the words (both in and about us) are often leading us more astray and away from where we think we’re heading…and it’s happening at a rate far greater than we would like to say aloud.
The best part is that just knowing this knowing now means we’re you’re already moving in a different direction.”
— Kathy Rast, Little Language Matters*
Language is layered.
Our language (specifically English) has layers.
And each language has layers.
Here, we focus not on a specific layer.
Here, we know what the layers are, how they work with (and not with) each other, and how we can land and lever off any one layer to better our ways and days.
Honestly, what we do here is not about the words, but how they are working with the way you work (or want to work).
“Our two primary focuses in Little Language Matters* are thinking and behaviours.
We bring the thinking and the behaviours to work from the same page through the layers of language and the awareness of words.
Really what we do is about the conversation that’s different that leads to the difference.
To be honest, we didn’t set out to be here for Solo Businesses. But, somewhere along the way, we grew a love, a passion, and a purpose that only has eyes for seeing Solo Businesses come into their own to play their part beyond the business.”
— Kathy Rast, Little Language Matters*