Need some help changing my vocabulary.

[silicon toad2000]

Hi all,

I need to some with ideas to stop using certain words often. In the last year I have become second in charge of a large company. While I do swear quite a bit that is not the issue at hand. I use the words cool and awesome. These are not words that bring a favourable light to myself or to the company.
Awesome is a recent addition, I was trying to find a word which conveyed some level of excitement about good news beyond saying 'that's good' or 'excellent', rightly or wrongly I began to use awesome. In hindsight and taking a step back from myself it probably wasn't the right choice in the first place.
Cool is a word I have been using for as long as I can remember and I am finding it very difficult to drop from my vocabulary.

[evelynlim]

Would it be possible to share what industry you are in, so that members to the forum can help in coming up with better alternative words?

[silicon toad2000]

It probably won't help too much. I work in the manufacturing industry but my position and the people I communicate with most often are very much white collar administration.

[Brutha]

If I remember right Steve Jobs uses word like awesome or gorgeous in his presentations a lot.

Maybe your problem isn't that you use the word awesome but that you don't transmit the energy that should come with it when you use it?

[Ree]

How about "excellent?"

Try the online Thesaurus provided by Merriam Webster. I checked awesome and it offered about 19 synonyms.

Dictionary and Thesaurus - Merriam-Webster Online

[silicon toad2000]

Thanks guys. I guess that is the key, I really need to substitute more acceptable words into my everyday use rather than just stop.
You're right brutha, I think the instance that has done me the most damage, the energy was not effectively passed on, I believe I let 'awesome' slip into an email.

[Brutha]

Originally Posted by silicon toad2000

Thanks guys. I guess that is the key, I really need to substitute more acceptable words into my everyday use rather than just stop.
You're right brutha, I think the instance that has done me the most damage, the energy was not effectively passed on, I believe I let 'awesome' slip into an email.

Maybe you can somehow delete words like awesome and cool from the spellcheckers wordbook so it alerts you that you made a spelling error when you want to send out the mail the next time?