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‘Should’ is a 4 Letter Word

How often do you preface your statements with, “I really should”, or “I shouldn’t”?   Well, if you are like me, it’s often enough that it has become an annoying habit.   I have been vigilantly observing my language and choice of semantics in my self-study and I realized that ‘should’ is a distasteful word that doesn’t serve me.  It lends to obligation, criticism, expectation (yours and that of others), guilt, shame and projection to future outcome.  It is a word of…