How you express yourself matters. What you say and what you don’t say are both important. In creating the life you love and in interacting with others, you must be thoughtful and deliberate in your communication. In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares how language can make a big difference in communication with others, setting goals, and even manifesting desires. Download the PDF Transcript Sponsors: Productivity, Performance & Profits Blackbook: Get a free copy of the “Definitive Guide to Productivity for Artists and Entrepreneurs.” Highlights: 00:17 – The difference language makes 00:45 – If we fail to express, we don’t get anything we want 01:19 – Should you go into every conversation with an agenda? 02:54 – Investing in a music industry startup 04:20 – How your brain interprets language 05:21 – “All good” vs. “No problem” 06:17 – Developing good habits 07:07 – Communication is about what others hear 07:51 – What to do when you’re feeling horrible 09:32 – Pay attention to the double negatives Transcript: So, this one is going to be titled “The Strange Double Negatives That Might be Tripping You Up” or something along those lines. And this is all about language. It may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, what I'm about to share with you, and yet, if we were to look at how everything is in language, everything is in communication, whatever we express is just as important as what we don't express. But if we don't express anything, we don't get anything we want. And that's where sharing comes in. We must share our vision with others, not so that we sabotage ourselves or our goals, but more so that sharing creates momentum. If we don't express anything, we don't get anything we want.Click To Tweet You just never know when sharing your idea with someone might help you find an investor or a collaborator or someone who's going to help and support you. Now, do we go into conversations with an agenda all the time? My feeling is no. It sounds strange and I think there's a time and place to go into a conversation prepared to request because so often we're just scared of making requests, and if we realized the power that we had and the requests that people would agree to, or at least counter, we would make way more requests than we do. What I do believe in is having an intention for every conversation. What is going to be talked about? Have an intention for every conversation.Click To Tweet Why would you go into a conversation with no intention? That is my question to you. Going into a conversation with no intention is for fun. That's not going to move your career forward. That's not going to move your business forward. And in fact, chances are it's not going to move your relationships forward. You might decide in the spur of the moment to go watch a movie or have a barbecue with friends. And obviously, that's valuable time. But open-ended conversations about nothing with no intention tend not to move anywhere. They're fine for entertainment, they're fine for your spare time, they're fine for relationship building with friends and people that you're getting to know. But they don't work for business-oriented conversations, career-oriented conversations, or opportunity-oriented conversations, that's where you want to bring intention to what you say, as well as what you don't say. Many years ago, I was invested in a music industry startup, and I was brought on as a part-time digital marketer to help spread the word about that company. I had a fair bit of success as far as blogging and social media were concerned. It was kind of the earlier days of social media if you will, maybe not MySpace or Friendster. That was kind of going out of style, but Google+ was still around at the time. So, that might give you an idea. I remember they brought on another guy… multiple contractors were brought on,