To "like" or not to "like, that is the question

Happy Thursday. I'm sitting at a coffee shop on a beautiful day. The sun is shining, I'm drinking some water along with my regular coffee drink, headphones in my ears listening to classical music while I go over my speech for the upcoming summit I'm speaking at, all seems right right? Well, almost...

Before putting my headphones in, I couldn't help but hear the two ladies next to me and their slightly loud conversation. It wasn't the conversation that bothered me or even the volume, it was the fact that every other word out of each other's mouth was the word "like".

Next thing I know, I'm starting to count how many times the word "like" was said. As of right now they're almost at 30. It hasn't even been a full two minutes yet. Well this got me thinking, I wonder how many times I use the word "like" in my daily conversations, how many times my friends use the word "like", my family, and so on.

The English language is a fun and complicated one, but man... It's an eye opener that many of us have given up on it, taken the easy way out, and "like" just used "like" to speed things up in our conversations. 

Therefore as of today, I've decided to challenge myself. Can I go a whole day, perhaps even a week without using the word "like" in my vocabulary?  This will definitely be a big wake up call, but a fun little experiment, and trust me, I'll be updating you. The weekend is coming up, so this will be really neat to see what happens. 

So before like the clock starts, let me like get everything like out of my system. I like think by like getting all the like's out, this might like make things like a little easier. 

Ok, so like, have a like great day, and I'll like be posting again like soon. Here we like go, and like, the time like starts....NOW!

Nicole