Do words increase your stress level?

It all depends, doesn’t it?

What about some of the business buzzwords that have become so overused and increase your stress level? What about words like; ‘At the end of the day.’, or ‘As we speak.’, and what about ‘Give you a heads up.’ and ‘negative growth.’

Whenever I hear these types of words used I wonder about what is going on in the culture of this organization. Why is it that they can’t speak in plain words? Why can they be honest or even blunt about things?

Is it possible that we’ve become so politically correct that we’ve all gone soft and due to this we are stressed out?

To conclude I want to ask you this question; what is one phrase that you can eliminate this week that does not tell the real truth?