How to pronounce“shoulds”in English

Because shoulds focus us on there's one particular answer.

coulds instead of shoulds.

All the shoulds come out.

And the shoulds we overcommit, we say yes more than you say no and so at the end something suffers, it's either or work or our personal life.

So these shoulds are these imperatives, are these prescriptions of what we should and shouldn't do.

By focusing on coulds rather than shoulds, we can come up with better solutions, and be more creative as a result.

I call them the coulds and the shoulds.

expectations that others layer upon us now shoulds can be small like you should go to the mall or you should read this

with letting go of the shoulds and embracing what is true as something

So the norms here are about shoulds.

is living in some mythical world of the shoulds and the oughts kind of like Sunday school, which is fine.

We talked about turning actions into identities, turning shoulds into coulds.

Or get married because of the shoulds, not because of the wants.

And I'm like, what are your shoulds?

Like all the can'ts, or the shoulds, or even the how.

Well, the problem with the shoulds is that they become a runaway train and before you know it you've said yes and overcommitted to so many things that might or might not

I, myself, had the "shoulds" in the past, where I felt like I should be working on this website, or I should be working on this research project.

you're inner tracker, you're inner compass and living on that instead of all the shoulds and have tos.

Shoulds, how much I realized I thought in should statements.

You should do this, it's all of these shoulds.

So, whenever you feel like you've been hooked by the shoulds I would suggest that you address them by using an acronym I call the POWER no.

So it's acting as you should, and the shoulds are given by the norms, and that should be matching the category assignments,

Okay, so that's again, I put in the shoulds.

I think it's people are really good again, at naming the coulds and the shoulds, like what they should do and what they could do.

If it's not about getting, but about connecting and feeling the sense of freedom that comes with letting go of the "shoulds"-

So often for many of us there are these scripts or these tapes that are going through our mind and I call them the shoulds.