Language is a powerful tool. We often underestimate its might and we are careless about word choices. I recently assessed my own word choices and decided to make a conscious shift in vocabulary. I started here earlier this year by avoiding some of the more inflammatory tidbits I was prone to use in earlier blogging posts.
Last year Web Women Giving Circle Founder and Master Coach Joeann Fossland introduced me to the concept of The Law of Attraction. I read Michael Lozier's Law of Attraction book and started to work with the principle in many areas of my life. I recently saw The Secret movie and had another thought about how to apply LOA to our philanthropic blog. We have added the words Love, Hope, and Abundance to our Categories and we have chosen more positive words to describe the prospect of improving the human condition.
I'm watching the development of a new real estate lexicon by some of the mighty new web sites like Zillow. Zillow refers to REALTORS as "real estate service providers." That is a misuse of the English language. We need to work on that. We will! Stay tuned.
Hi Frances, it's David G from Zillow.com.
What a great initiative. Here in Seattle, a local pastor has started a competition amongst his congregation to see who can go 21 days without complaining. We could use less negativity in the world. More details here: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=bracelets02&date=20061202&query=stop+complaining+21+days+bracelet
I also want to mention that your comment about Zillow is incorrect -- it's unfortunately a baseless rumor started by a competitor. On Zillow, we refer to "Realtors", "agents" or "real estate professionals" -- Remember that not all agents are REALTORS.
Please do what you can to correct this rumor whenever you hear it -- a quick Google search of our website verifies this.
Thanks for spreading the love, hope and abundance (interesting 3rd choice there).
PS - sorry if this is a duplicate - I was battling to get Typepad to accept the comment.
Posted by: David G from Zillow.com | December 06, 2006 at 07:05 PM
I thought you and your readers might be interested in this...
The Oprah broadcast of "The Secret" will be February 8th. I also just found out that it will be followed by an International Law of Attraction Teleconference. If you want more info go to http://www.lawofattractionteleconference.com.
Also, the more posts that Oprah gets on her message boards about a particular topic, the more inclined she is to repeat the topic. So go to www.oprah.com and find the message board for The Secret to let her know that you want more of the same!
Spread the word!
Posted by: BJ | February 07, 2007 at 03:45 AM
Great info.
I watched the Secret DVD a few months ago and got another book on Law of Attraction,
but it didn't really start happening for me until I wrote down my intentions. I found that to be
VERY powerful.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0975436171/ is a book I just got, which makes
planning out your Law of Attraction goals easy. Just fill in the blanks and you've got a road
map to follow. Has been working well so far.
Posted by: Taylor | March 15, 2007 at 11:19 PM
congrats on the launch! I definitely look forward to playing on the site! :)
http://www.Johnbeckssuccessstories.com/
Posted by: Richard | May 16, 2007 at 11:39 PM