Jerry Banfield

Vocabulary has an amazing power to change moods, feelings, lifestyles, and destiny because of how we associate words with our life’s experience. When I was in fourth grade, I started using cuss words as often as I could get away with meaning that I consciously made a decision to start communicating with the four letter word method. At thirty years old, I became aware that I was still behaving this way and it was imitating my ability to effectively communicate with sensitive and healthy people. Today I am grateful that I only use curse words when it seems most appropriate to share with a specific person in a relevant situation. What amazes me is seeing how much better my life LOOKS and FEELS without calling everything a nasty word all day every day. Words and labels have an epic capacity to define an experience for us as I explain in the video with using words like overwhelmed, frustrated, and fear often in my life. One way to work on solving any problem in life is to stop saying the word behind it by re