just jack

so, i know i said i was setting 2 big goals this year, but i set a third one in the wee small hours of the morning. i want to have a better (read: more positive) attitude about life. i was thinking about this goal and about how to break it down into smaller, more manageable parts and i decided that the first thing i need to work on is my phrasing. sometimes i say things that aren't all that negative, but the way i say them is. i want to change that. how? be eliminating particular words and phrases from my vocabulary, starting with "just." just is not a bad word when used in terms of rightness or fairness (as in, king arthur was a just ruler) or in reference to time (as in, that just happened) but we often use in place of "only." this is kid of awful. i mean, it's so limiting and negative without really trying to be. i don't let the kids i work with use this word when they talk about themselves for that very reason, so why is it okay for me to do so? it's not. besides, if we stop thinking about ourselves in terms of just and start thinking in terms of awesome we'd all be a lot happier. that's what i think anyway. so from now on, i'm not just anything, and if you catch me saying that i am, call me on it as loudly and publicly as possible (because you know how i like to make a public scene...)