What we say is important. Our vocabulary should be filled with words of hope and dreams. Be known as someone who speaks positively.
Recently I saw a sign under a mounted large mouth bass. It read, "If I had kept my mouth shut I wouldn't be here." How true! Don't jump into trouble mouth first.
Let me pose this question for you: Starting today what would happen if you changed what you said about your biggest problem, your biggest opportunity?
I don't know if you've had this conversation or not, but last month I turned to my wife, while we were sitting together in our family room and said, "Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state dependent on some machine. If that ever happens, just pull the plug."
She immediately got up, walked over and unplugged the TV.
"Our words create our worlds," says Dean Sikes. Your words have the power to start fires or quench passion.
Don't be like the man who joined a monastery in which the monks were allowed to speak only two words every seven years. After the first seven years had passed, the new initiate met with the abbot, who asked him, "Well, what are your two words?"
"Food's bad," replied the man, who then went back to his silence.
Seven years later the clergyman asked, "What are your two words now?"
"Bed's hard," the man responded.
Seven years later - twenty-one years after his initial entry into the monastery - the man met with the abbot for the third and final time. "And what are your two words this time?" the abbot asked.
"I quit."
"Well, I'm not surprised," the cleric answered disgustedly. "All you've done since you got here is complain!"
Don't be like that man; don't be known as a person whose only words are negative. If you're a member of the "negative grapevine," resign.
Contrary to what you may have heard, talk is not cheap. Talk is powerful!
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Just wanted to tell you Mike, ... I really like your blogspot ... 'blogspot' seems such an inappropriate name for such quality sharing though, LOL ... 'blogspot' sounds like something between a 'blivet' and an 'ink spot', LOL ... ... ... or like someone's had an accident of some nature, LOL ... ... ... man am I get'n old ...
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'Those who leave everything in God's hand will eventually see God's hand in everything.'
Thanks for a great posting, Pappy. I've been worrried more in the past about weight and what I put in my mouth. Since being in AA I have been trying to watch what comes out of it. I remember things teachers and kids said to me back in grade school and how bad they made me feel. What we say to others can have a lasting impact on others. Someone told me this saying a long time ago and it is worth repeating, "The tongue is the devil's workshop."
