Leveraging your Language to lighten your 🧠 load.
When you look at the little things through the lens of (your) Language, you can find new (not so obvious) opportunities that can weirdly work wonders to (actually) lighten your working load.
Language as a lens.
Our language (specifically English) has layers. And each layer of Language layer has layers. Here, our point is not the layers. Here, our point here is not even Language! Here our point is for you to (now) know that your words may be working with you and not with you (often outside your knowing).
“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*
Language as a lever.
Looking through the Language as a lens lets us see how our words are (actually) working, which opens up opportunities to continue to refine or (even) newly design how our words can work with us. Truthfully, it really takes very little to repeatedly give a lot back to you and those around you. Awareness alone can lighten learning curves, leaving them a little leaner and requiring fewer resources to take in, integrate, and implement knowledge across the all areas of our living lives.
“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 as a leader.
Did you read this as a ‘leader’ or ‘Leader’?
Both are right 🤭 That tickle of trying on the one you can’t unsee now is the fun feels of conscious ambiguity, where something’s both applicable to many things while feeling specific to one.
You’re also right when you know a little more context to contain this syntactical statement, which would lead you where we want you to go grow. The point is knowing a little can mean making a big difference from here on.
“Our focus in Little Language Matters* is (and will always be both) about and for the Language in our days and ways.
Our approach is small and significant in a way many are yet to see, reaching far beyond what’s seeable on the surface here.
For now, while we’re a slow burn in building relationships with those strengths in different parts of our lives through Language, our primary purpose here is to grow strong Solo Businesses to play their part beyond the business.”
— Kathy Rast, Little Language Matters*