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Before Breakfast

Second Cup: Think could, not should

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Thinking through options is more productive than feeling guilty

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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Good morning.

0:40.0

This is Laura.

0:42.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:45.0

Today's tip is to think could, not should.

0:51.0

Focusing on what you could choose to do helps you see possibilities.

0:58.0

And that might help you make real progress toward your goals.

1:10.3

A person who reviewed one of my books recently noted that I rarely use the word should.

1:18.7

Instead, this person wrote that I generally aim to show people what they could do, and how they might benefit. I hadn't thought about it that way before, but it is true. In the strategies I share and as I think about my own decisions, I definitely

1:28.0

lean toward considering what we could do instead of feeling constrained by shoulds, whatever those are anyway.

1:37.1

Could opens up possibilities, while should invites obligation and guilt.

1:46.0

Possibilities are a lot more attractive and often more helpful too.

1:52.0

In practice what this means is that when you are facing a problem, you

1:56.7

want to generate lots of potential solutions. Maybe there are ideas that are more common or that someone has told you are right,

2:07.0

but there may be other options too.

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