What is BLUE WAVE About…?

My name is Michael Kraeuter, most just call me Coach Mike and I have proudly led the BLUE WAVE Swim Team as its head coach for the past eleven years. I was asked to write a bit about this great swim team you all have in Ashburn Village. Contemplating what to write, I asked myself what things would interest the community.
I could share stats, such as placings at competitions, times, meets we have attended, records broken, etc... Those are just the results of what we do on a daily basis (you can see all of that at our website, www.pvbluewave.com). That’s it! What we do daily…So, what do we do daily besides swim in the wonderful Ashburn Village Sports Pavilion?

• We teach kids how to preserver through the hard stuff in life by challenging them to become the best version of themselves...
• We offer a space for kids to develop life-long friendships.
• We have amazing coaches that teach the kids that swimming is not just about going fast but about life.
• We offer an environment where kids can and will learn to be disciplined.
• We offer a space where the kids learn to take care of their body, mind and spirit.
• We teach the kids to learn to work with others and to be a proud, supportive, kind and respectful team members.
• We offer a safe space for a child to deal with disappointment, when they don’t get that time they hoped and worked for or handle an experience that didn’t go their way even though they practiced it a thousand times. They still get up, determined to do their BEST next time...
• We teach the how to embrace the process of life and make and accomplish goals.
• We teach the kids that it takes hours and hours and hours and hours of conscious work, planning and practice to create a champion, and patience that success does not happen overnight.
• We offer them a wholesome alternative to being in front of a screen…

This can be summed up in our team’s values, symbolized here –

It is made up of three parts;

‘Ohana – extending beyond your core family. Being a part of this wonderful Ashburn Village Community comes with the responsibility to act with integrity, care for, relate to, lead, build relationships, plan, organize, teach, mentor or be a role model.

Kaizen – is all about change, the practice of continuous improvement. Embracing the process of becoming an improved version of ourselves. We are all a work in progress.

Tabano – is about unity of purpose, strength, confidence and hard work to reach a destination or goal. One cannot simply achieve greatness without sacrificing, working hard and staying strong. When joining BLUE WAVE, you share in the team’s mission of developing extraordinary people through the dedication of mastery in the sport of swimming. Dedication to this purpose gives us common ground to stand upon in our individual journeys. When we have purpose, it helps us navigate the choices we must make each day. From what to eat, when to go to bed, how we treat each other, etc…
I could go on but, to be short, we don’t just swim laps we create opportunities for children to develop attributes that will serve them well throughout their lives and give them the opportunity to give back to the community and the lives of others. From what I have seen for many, many years, this is what makes not only this swim team great but the world we live in!
Thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this great community!

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Comfortably, Uncomfortable

The other month at our season’s first swim meet I was talking to one of our team members post-race, one of favorite part of swim meets, and we covered what he thought he did well and what he could improve on at practice. The interesting part was when I asked him how he would go about improving and he stated, “get better endurance.” To that I asked

What is endurance?

He then stated, “well, better stamina” then I asked, “what is stamina?” and the cycle started over again with him stating “better endurance.”

The power of asking questions like this allow me to delve deeper and uncover what they are truly thinking and how I could best serve them.

He could have stated anyone of the other words that are a synonym for endurance such as: persistence, stick-to-itiveness, grit, spunk, guts, backbone, courage, longevity, durability, diligence, tenacity, tolerance, patience, fortitude, etc…Now, you’re probably wondering what endurance means (even if you think you know what it means here is my perspective). Endurance is basically the ability to be uncomfortable for an extended period or as I like to say, “be comfortably, uncomfortable.”

By a show of hands how many of you like to be uncomfortable?

You have basically two choices; use will power and fight your way through uncomfortable feelings, or you can learn to work with your body and make them become comfortable. The nervous system creates the discomfort and pain. When we feel pain, our body is telling us that something might be wrong and needs our attention. We can teach our bodies that what we are experiencing does not need our attention and that it is alright. Or if you decide to go with the other choice and fight your way it is kind of like having a knife pressed against you skin and then trying to distract yourself from it only that it keeps pressing harder and harder into your skin. I would rather figure out what the reason the knife is there in the first place and take care of that.

First step to this is delving into what is uncomfortable and opening your awareness around it. Most tend to move away from discomfort by distracting themselves in ways that do not serve them, it only provides a temporary reprieve. A simple question to ask is “what’s causing this discomfort?” and see what comes up. Now that you know what is causing the discomfort you can work with it. One way we work with it is through breathwork and breathing. One technique that we teach is a box breath. Here is a simple explanation.

1. Close your eyes. Breathe in through your nose while counting to four slowly. Feel the air enter your lungs.
2. Pause your breath inside while counting slowly to four. Try not to clamp your mouth or nose shut. Simply avoid inhaling or exhaling for 4 seconds.
3. Begin to slowly exhale for 4 seconds.
4. Pause your exhale while counting slowly to four.
5. Repeat steps 1 to 4 at least three times. Ideally, repeat the four steps for 4 minutes, or until calm returns.

Next time you find yourself experiencing discomfort give this a go and see what happens. Finding what we are looking for is typically on the other side of discomfort.

When you become “comfortably, uncomfortable” and work with and not fight your discomfort you will develop more endurance. Discomfort is what happens when we are on the edge of change and tends be the currency of your dreams.

What can you become “comfortably, uncomfortable” with today?

Conscious Thought Revolution

Always learning and keeping an open mind

Before writing this, I didn’t know what to share with the community for this month. Then a wave hit me as I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts “Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey” and towards the end of the podcast one of the guests named Gordy Bal asked the question “What does a Conscious Thought Revolution mean to you?” and the answers he received opened my eyes! You can listen to the podcast by going here. https://blog.bulletproof.com/coffee-talk-evolutionary-biology-food-hangovers-conscious-parenting-439/

Conscious Thought Revolution

When we have conscious thinking, we are learning to pay attention to the world outside of our own ego. One by one we increase our consciousness with which we make decisions about what we do for a living, about the way we respond when we get bad customer service, about the food we put in our mouth, etc…and then virally we spread that to the people around us. Then it becomes a revolution. This is how we can become the change we want to see in the world, by creating at conscious thought revolution.

The easiest way this can be achieved is by teaching kids to be conscious. It is being conscious and recognizes that every interaction you have with children generates meaning and to realize that the words we use are taken by a child and then are made up into some meaning for which they create rules for which they live by. I’m sure we can all find things that adults have stated to us when we were kids which we interoperated into rules which we still live by today. My life coach has helped me delve into this to help me understand why I do certain things.

In coaching kids, we ask them to pay attention when they are looking around and not listening to the coach. We forget to ask ourselves; do they even know what we mean when we state “pay attention”? Probably not. This is being conscious of these things so I can teach them how to be conscious and then they will “pay attention”.

When coaching I encourage kids to ask questions and teach them to be aware of what they are doing. I try to draw their attention to the thoughts that flow through their minds.

Dave Asprey stated: “A revolution means something that’s disruptive. It means it’s different and it’s a radical step out. And we can think about all sorts of stuff, but when you have a conscious thought what you’re doing is you’re thinking about what matters rather than just thinking for the sake of thinking. Or thinking and telling yourself a story, so when you have conscious thinking, you’re actually learning to pay attention to the story you told yourself but pay attention to the real story as the world exists outside of your own ego.”

Then Eric Edmeades of getwildfit.com stated: “It’s not so much we need a conscious thought revolution right now; it’s been going on for probably 2-million years. And 2-million years ago there was very little conscious thought and then slowly a little conscious thought developed, and then slowly a little bit more. And then maybe some point in time the ‘60’s, it started going the other direction, and maybe even earlier than that. For me, what it really is exactly that, it’s that – one by one, that whole “be the change you want to see in the world.” One by one we increase our consciousness with which we make decisions about what we do for a living, about the way we respond when we get bad customer service, about the food we put in our mouth, and one by one we do that. And then virally we spread that to the people around us. And then it does become a revolution.”

As the conversation went on, they expanded upon their answers and this is what hit me - It is a lot easier to teach kids to be conscious. It is something we do every day at BLUE WAVE. Last excerpt from the podcast that was a great insight was from Eric Edmeades. He stated; “I'm so clear about this I noticed when I was a kid that my parents could say something and if I ... As a kid you don't have a lot of meaning yet, right? You walk into the world; you don't know what the rules are. And I remember one day I was eating an apple, and I wanted to go to the bathroom. So, I was eating the apple, and I went into the bathroom, closed the door, put the apple down, did my business, washed my hands, picked up the apple, walked out of the bathroom. My mom saw me come out of the bathroom with an apple and she was like, "Oh, my God what are you doing! That's dangerous." But then she got busy with something and didn't explain to me what dangerous meant. And I must have been eight or something at the time, but I'm thinking, well, she knows I'm smart enough to have washed my hands, so it can't be that. What else could it be? And as a kid when you don't have any meanings, you don't really understand the world, you will make up meanings. And I remember one day playing with a straw, and I noticed that if you block the top of the straw you can pull the liquid up. And if you let go of the top of the straw the liquid falls out. And I started thinking well, maybe that's what she meant by dangerous - that if you swallow while you poop, you just fall out. I became really nervous about this. I would not chew gum going to the bathroom. I'd go in there, I wouldn’t swallow. I thought if you opened both ends, it's all wrong. And years later when I saw the absurdity of this as a parent, I've looked at that and I thought, wow, there's a lot of things that my parents said that when I look back at those memories now the meanings I assessed were so incredibly wrong. For me, a Conscious Thought Revolution as a parent, is to recognize that every interaction I have with my children generates a meaning, and the meaning might not be the words I used. The meaning might be that they take those words and they make up some meaning, which for them will become a rule to live by. Just yesterday I was in San Diego, and I'm walking through the mall … I did a Facebook Live about this, because it just struck me. There was a little girl with her mom in the lineup. And the little girl goes, "Mom, mom I want one of…" whatever. I don't even know what it was, and the mom says to her, "Well, you better marry rich."

I’ll end it at that line, and you can come up with your own rule the mother at that moment set in motion for her child. It isn’t just about what you say, it is how you act and/or react. What you display in your body language and facial expressions. The main thing is becoming aware of these things and what better way to do that is with the help of the community of teachers, coaches, neighbors, family, friends, and from some of the best teachers of all your children.

How can you start a conscious thought revolution?

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The Cottleston Pie Principle

“Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.” Zen Proverb

Marie Kondo instructs us to go through our clutter and ask, “does this still serve me?” In doing so I have come across things my past and due to the knowledge, I have obtained take on a whole other meaning. Here is one of those instances.

Cottleston Pie by A.A. Milne

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,

A fly can’t bird, but a bird can fly.

Ask me a riddle and I reply:

“Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.”

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,

A fish can’t whistle and neither can I.

Ask me a riddle and I reply:

“Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.”

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie,

Why does a chicken, I don’t know why.

Ask me a riddle and I reply:

“Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.”

In reading the book “The Tao of Pooh” by Benjamin Hoff. He allows us to revisit the lessons that Pooh was attempting to teach us from his adventures in Pooh Corner with Rabbit, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Kanga & Roo and Christopher Robin. Let’s explore one together called the Cottleston Pie Principle.

And here’s the explanation, according to the book “The Tao of Pooh” by Benjamin Hoff.

“A fly can’t bird but a bird can fly.” Very simple. It’s obvious, isn’t it? And yet, you’d be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.

It is useless to try to make things into ways they’re not. Everything has its own place and function, including people, even if they don’t realize it, and that’s why they keep the wrong job or stay in the wrong marriage or relationships. You need to learn to know and respect your Inner Nature. When you do so, you know where you belong and where you don’t belong.

Respect yourself, respect your Inner Nature. Make friends with what you are, because that’s the only thing you have.

“A fish can’t whistle and neither can I”. This means “I have certain limitations, and I know what they are”. There’s nothing wrong with not being able to whistle, especially if you’re a fish. But there can be lots of things wrong with blindly trying to do what you aren’t designed for. That doesn’t mean that we need to stop changing and improving. It just means that we need to recognize what’s there. The wise know their limitations, the foolish ignore it…

Respect your limitations, respect what you can’t do. If you know what is that you can’t do, you’ll work on it, and that will save you from trouble.

“Why does a chicken, I don’t know why”. Why does a chicken do what it does? You don’t know? Neither do I. Neither does anyone else. The important thing is that we don’t really need to know. We don’t need to play Abstract Philosopher, asking unnecessary questions and coming up with meaningless answers. Cottleston Pie means Inner Nature, and if you substitute the words in the song, you’ll get that Inner Nature is the answer to the riddles!

Stop trying to find an explanation for everything, stop over analyzing, things are as they are. Learn to accept them as they go.

We often forget the most important of our childhood lessons until we clear the clutter. All we must do is recognize Inner Nature and work with things as they are- after all "You can't get very far if you don't know who you are"

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Practice (is) Everything is Practice

During Yoga practice, I was doing a headstand and I tumbled ever so gracefully out of it, in other words I fell. Reflecting on what happened the first thing that came to mind is that I learned what not to do but in further reflection I found out what may have aided my hasty decent. During the headstand a thought kept coming up that I was going to fall. Self-fulling prophecy, as the old saying goes; “if you think you can or can’t, you’re right”. Proved that one once again.

The people I coach ask me all the time, “how do I get better?” Looking for the secret or short cut to this elusive path. I tend to loosely state “one stroke at a time”. It isn’t so much about what you do, necessarily, but what your attitude is about your actions. So, what does this have to do with my “failed” headstand? It wasn’t a failure, it was play, it was an attempt, and each attempt is a step forward, it was practice.

"Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect." ~ Periander

Improvement involves the three P’s;

• Perseverance- keep doing something despite of difficulty or delay in achieving success.
• Patience- is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.
• Practice

Everything you do is practice. If you look at it any other way, you are not only setting unreasonable expectations of yourself, but you are assuming you can predict an unpredictable outcome. When a hit song tops the charts, a book becomes a best-seller, an athlete does something no one has done before, it’s easy to see the occurrence in an instant and ignore everything that preceded it.

"Success comes through rapidly fixing our mistakes rather than getting things right the first time." ~ Tim Harford, author of Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

How do you get better? Just like you learned how to walk, talk, put food in your mouth without missing. One fall, mumble, messy face at a time. You have been doing it your whole life and look at you now. We endlessly experiment, play and learn. The faster we learn to look for ways to fall the less falling will happen because we will finally realize that we are continuously falling, we just don’t know it because it looks like standing or for the purpose of this article, success.

What are you practicing today? You know my answer, everything!

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The UN-Comfortable Zone

by Coach Mike

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

We typically avoid situations that feel scary; fear and anxiety overwhelm which can cause us to typically search for relief from those uncomfortable feelings. The feelings we experience are our irrational side working to keep us “safe”. If accept the feeling instead of allow time to understand it, it gets stronger throughout our lives. The feeling can become so strong that it can overpower us, and we find ways to numb that feeling, like avoiding conversations or situations, eating “comfort foods”, using drugs to forget our worries, etc…We live in a world of comfort. House is cold turn up the heat; house is too hot turn on the AC. Hungry? Grocery store/restaurants are everywhere. I could go on but look at your everyday life and imagine how you avoid being uncomfortable.

Take a COLD shower…brrrrr

Close your eyes and imagine standing under the shower head and turning on the cold water. What did you just experience? That is uncomfortable, right? What makes it uncomfortable though? For me, it’s the feeling on my skin and how my body reacts by starting to shiver and breathe erratically.

Becoming comfortable with being uncomfortable…

This is a paradoxical statement but that is exactly what I did. I asked myself, “How can I make this experience more comfortable?” For me, focusing my attention on my breath and evening it out allowed me to draw focus inward where my body is still warm. In that moment I no longer felt the cold water beating on my skin but a sense of calm and warmth. This is something you can do. At the end of your normal shower turn it all the way to cold and stand there for 10 seconds. What is uncomfortable for you and how can you make it more comfortable?

“The only thing you have control over is your reaction.”

What has something so simple allowed me to practice?

1. Being present: Just standing under the shower knowing that I’m going to turn on the cold water my thoughts go into overdrive and it allows me to practice listening to them in a safe environment and flex my “focus” muscle to stay present.
2. Managing fear: Acknowledging the fear and listening to it allows me to release it by proactively changing my perspective and instead of fear I decide to react with joy.
3. Taking small steps: Joy of taking a cold shower didn’t happen overnight. I started with 10 seconds and disliked it very much. However, by sticking with it and adding about 5 seconds each time I was able to compassionately work with myself and now my whole shower consists of cold water.
4. Kicking my own butt: Getting uncomfortable allows me to demonstrate by example my initiative to kick my own butt instead of waiting for someone else to do it. Doing something you are resistant to, every single day, builds mental strength and over time this discipline becomes a habit that echoes in every area of life.
5. Break up the habit: Life is often a series of habits followed by other habits. Doing this allows me to practice getting uncomfortable, break up the habit and then work through the new situation.
6. Tolerance: Having a cold shower has helped me train my mind to not react to changes within the body, like leg cramps, itchy nose, or sore back. This tolerance has extended over to other aspects of life. For example, when someone cuts me off in traffic, I have learned to ignore the rush of adrenaline in the body and react properly.
7. Being humbled: Cold showers humble everyone and serve as an amazing way to give myself an occasional psychological kick in the butt. We are all the same, and you are not better than anyone else. As powerful and strong you consider yourself, we are all human beings. The cold shower has the power to humble everyone.
8. Acceptance: Overcoming this situation on a regular basis has helped me practice acceptance of the fact that there are things beyond my control and that life is not always going to go my way. This has helped boost willpower, build tolerance, and allows me to practice accepting the things that life throws at me.

Finding simple ways to move outside your comfort zone on a regular basis allows you to practice being comfortable with being uncomfortable. So, ask yourself this question. What makes you uncomfortable? How can you make it comfortable for you?

If you want more information regarding the health benefits of cold showers just Google it, you too may start this practice.

The Elephant & the Rider

I’m reading this book entitled Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Dan Heath and Chip Heath. They reference NYU psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s lovely analogy about the Elephant and the Rider to represent the two systems at work in our brain. The emotional side is represented by the elephant and the rational side is the rider. The rider of the elephant looks to be in charge, but when there’s a disagreement between the elephant and the rider, which do you think wins?

Dan and Chip, talk about directing the rider (rational brain: responsible for planning and direction, but can get paralyzed overthinking things) and motivating the elephant (emotional brain: prefers quick gratification over long term, but gets things done). Have you ever noticed that when you are tired you tend to make choices you don’t’ really want to? Imagine changing the direction of an elephant. This task would be exhausting. This might explain why it is difficult to stick with a diet for any extended period. Your elephant wants to constantly go for things you are used to while the rider is attempting to steer towards the healthier choices. You can keep it up for a little while, but the elephant wins in the end. If you want to make sustainable, meaningful change, the rider and elephant need to work together.

Direct the Rider

The rider loves to contemplate and analyze, doing this with a negative bias, focusing on problems over solutions becoming easily frustrated by uncertainty. How do you direct the rider? Follow the bright spots, see what works and clone it. Script the critical moves. Don’t think big picture, think in terms of specific behaviors. Point to the destination. Change is easier when you know where you are going and why it is worth it.

Motivate the Elephant

The elephant is easily spooked and hates doing things with no immediate benefit. It is stubborn, needs reassurance, and is quickly demoralized. But it is powerful, tireless and difficult to actively direct. How do you motivate the elephant? Find the feeling. Knowing something isn’t enough to cause change. Make it somehow felt. Shrink the change. Break down the change until it no longer spooks the elephant.

Shape the Path

Without a clear vision of the destination, change will not happen as the elephant tends to follow the path of least resistance. This means focusing on the surrounding environment to make change easier. How do we shape the path? Tweak the environment. When the situation changes, the behavior changes. So, change the situation. Build habits. When behavior is habitual, it’s “free” and doesn’t tax the rider. Look for ways to encourage habits.

Those are the Facts

I would like to share my point of view and how I apply this and get the rider and elephant to work together. Here is a personal example; a few years ago, I completely changed my diet because I wanted to be a healthier version of myself. In order to initiate the change, I read material put out by bright spots, by people who struggled with becoming healthier. This allowed my rider to formulate a plan. From the material I was reading I found out that some foods caused inflammation in my body. I visualized myself purposely giving myself bruises. This visualization caused an emotional reaction motivating my elephant. The change to becoming healthier was now directed at cutting out all the foods that could cause my body inflammation. Shaping the path, I started with throwing out all the foods in my kitchen that could potentially cause inflammation and learned to make a few easy things to help remove any obstacles from my path to becoming healthier. How powerful is this? One day I wanted sweet potato fries and I was too tired to make them from scratch. I took a drive to the grocery store and found a bag of frozen ones and read the ingredients which contained some inflammatory items and the elephant kicked in and said “NOPE” and I ended up making them from scratch.

Now, whenever I find my elephant off tract or my rider spinning wheels, I ask myself, “How can I get the elephant and the rider moving together?”

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Words are POWERFUL!

By Coach Mike

Being a bit of a Star Wars geek, I have always loved this quote by Yoda.

“No! Try not! Do or do not, there is no try.” -Yoda

However, I was always confused, by “there is no try”. What did he mean by that? You grow up and your parents say to you, just try it and see if you like it. Teachers said, just give it a try and see if it works. There are so many more examples, but when Yoda spoke those words, he teaches a very valuable lesson. When you say, “you’ll try”, you are lying. If you tell yourself that you’re “going to try”, you’ve subconsciously planned to fail, and it gives your brain an out. This doesn’t mean that you must do everything that is asked of you. If you don’t think that something is the best use of your time and energy, you can honestly and clearly (and kindly) say no. But if you choose to take something on, commit to it with all your might. You either do it or you don’t and if you fail in the process of doing at least you truly learned something.

What I’m getting at is that words are powerful. They set expectations and limits and send messages to our brains and even our bodies about how much we are capable of. You may discover that you may use self-limiting words without even realizing it. Our subconscious may choose safe words that make unimportant things feel huge and other words that allow wiggle room to avoid doing the big things we want to do.

Weasel Words

As I was scrolling through the team’s Instragram feed one of my favorite authors, Dave Asprey, posted a pic with the term “Weasel Words”. In his new book “Game Changers” he delves into four particularly insidious weasel words that you likely use many times a day without even noticing it. “Try” is one of those words, here are the other three.

Can’t: It is perhaps the most destructive word. The word “can’t” mean’s there is absolutely no possible way you can do something. When you say “I can’t do…” something, you may actually mean: I could use some help; I don’t have the tools to do it; I don’t know how to do it; or you I don’t want to do it. Using “can’t” creates confusion and stress between your conscious and unconscious parts of your brain. Instead use words that mean the same thing to both parts of the brain and it will help you be calmer and more empowered as a person. “Can’t” is always a lie. Learn to see it that way, and you’ll solve problems differently.

Need: You probably use this word in all sorts of ways; “I need a snack” or “I need this new iPhone”. You don’t need those things and lying to your brain about what you need is making you weak, turning a desire into a straight-up survival issue. There are only a few things we do need: oxygen, water, food, shelter, and warmth. The rest are wants, not needs.

Bad: Very few things are inherently “bad”; bad is a value judgement you assign something. When you label things as “bad” your subconscious listens and prepares for impending doom. Most of the time what we mean is; I don’t like it or don’t want it. The world doesn’t naturally fall into two camps. There are truly tragic things, such as violence and natural disasters, but when it comes to our everyday lives judging things through a filter of good or bad is limiting and creates unnecessary obstacles. When labeling something as “bad” you miss out on an opportunity to figure out how it can be good.

“Your words become your world.” Nadeem Kazi

Our subconscious interprets what it hears very literally. Your mind and body will follow the direction your words lead. The words you use hold immense power. Power to fuel your confidence and ambition and power to make you feel anxious and inadequate. Power to make a strong first impression and power to be quickly forgotten. Power to create opportunities and power to shut them down. So, stop trying and start doing!

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