Vernacular Assistance

I need your help.  Apart from being a test of whether anyone still reads this blog given I haven’t posted in four months, I have a real problem.

Oxford researchers have listed the ten most annoying phrases and at the top of the list is “at the end of the day.”

(Here’s the rest of the list):

1 – At the end of the day
2 – Fairly unique
3 – I personally
4 – At this moment in time
5 – With all due respect
6 – Absolutely
7 – It’s a nightmare
8 – Shouldn’t of
9 – 24/7
10 – It’s not rocket science

Unfortunately for me, this is a phrase I can hardly go a single conversation without saying.

So I’ve spent some time trying to think of something else to say when I mean “I don’t necessarily agree but something needs to happen”.  It seems often I can simply skip out the phrase, e.g (“I agree, but at the end of the day we need to move forward” becomes “I agree, but we need to move forward”) but sometimes I’m going to feel like I need something else to pad out the sentence.  Any ideas?  What do you say?  Any phrases on that list that you think you might overuse?