Choose Your Words Wisely

The Wrong Words Can Kill You.

“Words are seeds that do more than blow around. They land in our hearts and not the ground. Be careful what you plant and careful what you say. You might have to eat what you planted one day.” -Unknown

Why are the words we speak so important?

Because the words you use are more powerful than you know, they have the power to help you become and achieve incredible things, or they can also beat you down to the point that you believe there's no hope.

Powerful because you use words to express yourself to people, and you use words to describe yourself, your life experiences, and the feelings attached to those experiences.

When you meet people and tell them who you are, you use words and feelings based on your experiences. How you view those experiences positively or negatively determines the kind of words you use.

If someone asks you how you are doing, you respond with?“I’m OK”?or?“I’m fine,”?or you can choose to say?“I’m feeling great!”?or?“Life is good!”? Using such positive words at first may feel awkward if they don’t fit your typical routine or don't match what you're currently feeling.

However, you will feel better as you shift to regularly using positive words. By choosing to use words that create happiness, you'll be amazed at how quickly it changes your outlook on Life. You’ll start to see positive situations lining up in your Life.

If you want positive things to happen, you must speak positivity into every aspect of your Life. It’s not something you do once, and then you’re done; it's something you do all day, every day.

Here's what it sounds like from both sides:

• ‘I’ll never have enough money or time.”?vs.?“I’m going to keep working towards my goals; time and money are coming.”
• “Nobody cares about me.”?vs.?“I’m so blessed to have these people in my life.”
• “Why am I such a loser? I’ll never be successful.”?vs.?“Every day I’m learning, and I’m growing towards my vision of my future self.”
• “I don’t have enough talent.”?vs.?“There’s nothing I need to know that I can’t learn or find the right people to help me.”
• “There’s no one out there for me.”?vs.?“Finding the right person for my life is one of my top goals; I’m going to find them.”
• “Life is so unfair”?vs.?“Life is what I make it.”
• “I’m not smart enough.”?vs.?“There’s nothing I can't find the answer to; all the information in the world is at my fingertips.”
• “The Universe is against me.”?vs.?“As long as I keep my goals in front of me, moving towards my future, the Universe will conspire to help me.”

The Power of Words

“Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate, and to humble.” -Yehuda Berg

Negative thinking and talk force you to reap unnecessary stress, anxiety, depression, relationship problems, and work difficulties. Issues could have otherwise been avoided if only you had been focused on being positive.

You might say,?“WOW,”?those are pretty heavy-duty statements. Agreed, but unfortunately, negativity and positivity bear fruit in your life whether you like it or not, and if success in life is your aim, then you have no time for harmful fruit.

There’s amazing power in your words. Your words have the power of life and death. It’s been proven over and over that your words have the power to mend, to heal, to encourage, to inspire, and to motivate.

The positive words you tell yourself and those around you directly impact your thinking and, subsequently, your Life. Speaking positivity in your Life requires saying it OUT LOUD. I know it sounds crazy, and yes, you may look or sound a little crazy doing it, but it’s OK. You need to state it out loud.

Speak out loud your purpose and your intention. Shout out loud your goals and what you expect for your future. Don’t just envision them, openly state them out loud for the universe and everyone else to hear. More importantly, for you and your subconscious to hear.

Not?“I hope, I wish, or I want,”?But?“I am, I will, and I have!”?Speak about the things you want as if they've already occurred.

The Power of Thoughts

“If we understood the power of our thoughts, we would guard them more closely. If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative. We create our weaknesses and strengths in our thoughts and words.” Betty Eadie

There are very few things in life you can control. You definitely CAN control how you think, what you say, and how you respond in a crisis and difficult circumstances.

The power you’re looking for in Life is your thoughts and tongue. Speak Life into your circumstances and what you want. Speak positivity into who you are and into who you’re becoming. Speak about your goals, dreams, and aspirations.

Speak Life into your work, your marriage, your family, your relationships, your career, your health, and your finances. Speak positively about the future you’re creating.

Let your OWN words be the motivation, inspiration, and power that drive how you think and what you say. Let the power of your positive thoughts propel you down the path of becoming the person you want and will become.

Be Careful about the Kind of House Your Building

“The words you speak become the house you live in.” — Hafiz

Speaking Life is about having a positive attitude or mindset when you boil it down. It’s about Speaking positivity into your Life and the lives of the people around you. You obviously can’t control your circumstances; bad things always happen to good people.

What you CAN control is your attitude towards those circumstances and the words you use about them.

They’ll either build up your Life or tear it down. What you think and say to yourself in response to Life’s circumstances will determine the Life you eventually build.

Life’s ups and downs and pain and suffering will either be happening FOR you or to you. If they are happening for you, then everything that happens, and everything you say to yourself, will be helping and assisting you to learn.

As a result, you will grow, develop, and conquer the things in your life that will eventually cause massive success in your most important areas.

There is no in-between. It would help if you let your attitude reflect your positive thinking and the words you say to yourself and others. A positive attitude and mindset will be critical in every aspect of your Life.

Your positive mindset today will determine the level of your success and the house you build for yourself tomorrow.

Be the Positive Light the People Around You Need

When you speak Life, you talk about positivity, hope, and love. What is the opposite of Life… Death. The tongue has the power of Life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit.” — Proverb.

There is so much negativity in this world that people are desperate to be around positive people and have positive influences in their lives and the lives of their families.

The world is screaming for someone like you who will speak Life into them and someone who will positively influence their lives and the lives of their family, friends, and co-workers.

It would help if you were that someone. You should be the one speaking positivity, hope, and love into their Life. It would help if you were sharing the power of Life, forever changing the lives of the people you care about and those around you.

• What is your attitude toward the things that are happening in your Life?
• What needs to happen for you to start thinking, reacting, and responding with a POSITIVE ATTITUDE?
• What needs to happen today for you to know and believe that Life is happening FOR you?
• What would happen for YOU to be someone who speaks Life and positivity into the people around you?

(I encourage you to take a minute and journal the answers to these questions.)

It’s up to you, be careful what you say to yourself and the people around you. Your words are either killing you or creating an extraordinary life FOR you.