The power of one tiny word

It’s a little word.
3 letters.

And it could be the difference between being stuck and moving forward

In personal and professional development we talk all the time about busting through limiting beliefs. Of overcoming mindsets and thought processes or behaviors that might holding us back from the success or satisfaction that we desire.

If you’ve spent anytime working to establish new habits in an effort to move yourself, your career, or business forward, you know how defeating it can be when you catch yourself once again do IT again.

For those of know this particular pain, I invite you to experiment with the power of one particular word.

A tiny word that contains mighty power.

I encourage you to play with the capacity building capability of this brave little word:

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A rather dramatic photo of me from 2017 rehearsing a feminist adaptation of the play Pygmalion originally written by George Bernard Shaw in 1912. It was popularly remade as the film My Fair Lady starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. This interpretation was created by the cast and staff of The Chamber Theatre, Louisville KY.

How to use yet

Shakespeare once wrote “Though she be but tiny, she is fierce!” This describes the word yet.

Yet is a fierce word, of determination, possibility and things being unfinished. Where you might have once said “I haven’t finished” and felt a pang of shame, you can now say “I have not finished, yet” Where before you might have uttered “I can’t do that” and gotten down on yourself, yet can swoop in to lift up the end - “I can’t do that. YET!”

We often think of language as something we use to communicate with other people.

But language is also how we communicate with ourselves.

Every day, we're engaged in an ongoing internal conversation. We narrate our successes, explain our failures, predict the future, and make meaning of what happens to us. Those quiet sentences become the lens through which we experience our lives.

The words we choose aren't neutral. They shape our perceptions, influence our emotions, and affect the actions we're willing to take.

When we say, "I'm not good at networking," or "I'm just not a writer," our brains tend to treat those statements as facts—as settled conclusions about who we are.

But language can also create movement. And you know I love some movement.

Changing a single word can change the meaning of an entire sentence. And when the meaning changes, our emotional response often changes with it. It resonates differently within and around us.

That's what makes yet so powerful.