{"id":2086,"date":"2009-07-16T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T19:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=2086"},"modified":"2009-07-16T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T19:10:41","slug":"the-space-between-the-umms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/07\/16\/the-space-between-the-umms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Space Between the Umms&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/icanchangethisright\/3693404313\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"between\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/between.jpg\" alt=\"between\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI watched <a title=\"Tara Joyce's presentation on Innerpreneurs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/07\/13\/the-video-my-first-presentation-on-innerpreneurs\/\">the video of my first speech on innerpreneurs<\/a> only once. It&#8217;s all I could bear. All I heard were the umms&#8230; that seemed to follow my every sentence. In the moment, I felt calm but upon watching the video it is clear that I am anything but.<\/p>\n<p>What is it that those umms&#8230; mean to me? Am I using them as a tool to help me think of my next thought? Or is it because I was afraid of silence?<\/p>\n<p>Two days ago, after doing my best to tame my very vocal inner critic, I vowed to my husband that I would try to be conscious of my every word and my every umm&#8230; in an effort to not say it any more.<\/p>\n<p>I forgot about this vow yesterday and I&#8217;m sure I said umm&#8230; many times over. Today, however, I am back in the anti-Umm&#8230; game.<\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck and if you have any advice for removing umm&#8230; from your vocabulary, I&#8217;d love to hear it.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"Link to bradleygee's photostream\" rel=\"dc:creator cc:attributionURL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/icanchangethisright\/\">bradleygee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/icanchangethisright\/3693404313\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone frame size-full wp-image-14\" title=\"between\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/between.jpg\" alt=\"between\" width=\"458\" height=\"129\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI watched <a title=\"Tara Joyce's presentation on Innerpreneurs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/07\/13\/the-video-my-first-presentation-on-innerpreneurs\/\">the video of my first speech on innerpreneurs<\/a> only once. It&#8217;s all I could bear. All I heard were the umms&#8230; that seemed to follow my every sentence. In the moment, I felt calm but upon watching the video it is clear that I am anything but.<\/p>\n<p>What is it that those umms&#8230; mean to me? Am I using them as a tool to help me think of my next thought? Or is it because I was afraid of silence?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-journey-whats-on-my-mind"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}