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Our language and how we use it affect who we are and how we live. Our words color our experience just as our experience colors our terms. Sometimes it's hard to understand just how much of a difference a vocabulary change can make until you try it. Here are a few options for you to consider: 1. Become a mobile no-fire zone. Eliminate negative habits such as sarcasm, denigrating language, hate, spite, and anger from your vocabulary, and inform those around you that you no longer accept such negativity in your interactions with them. Of course, bad things happen, and bad news is part of life. Still, there are ways to convey adverse events without adding to their potency by couching them in spiteful, petty, destructive, or insensitive language. Turn off the news - you'd be surprised how well-informed you can stay just by listening to the everyday conversations taking place around you - and by then, the doom-and-gloom delivery and "red alert" crisis immediacy has been si...