Words Are Real Things -- Motivational Minute (13_59)

Quote of the day:

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” — Norman Vincent Peale

Consider:

I would like to add to this quote by saying that if we change our words it will help change our thoughts and thus change our world.

Have you ever heard someone say “Oh what a bad day” when it was raining? I sadly admit, I'm guilty of this from time to time.  If we call sunny days 'nice days,' it makes us think of rainy days as 'bad days,' but rainy days can be nice too. We need both sunshine and rain, and if we’ll try to always be thankful for each day we have whether it's rainy or sunny, our outlook will change for the better.

It seems like such a simple lesson—to be thankful for both rain and sun—but taking some time to reflect on this,  made me realize that the way we choose to talk about things affects our overall happiness and attitude towards life. Sad to say, many of us have formed the bad habit of adopting a negative terminology regarding certain situations. If we want to be more positive, think more positively, and react more positively, we need to work on changing our vocabulary to be more positive, because it's pretty hard to talk about a "bad" day and think of it positively.

To change the way we think about things, we need to also change the way we talk about them. Our vocabulary, the way we label things and the way we express things, has a major bearing on the way we think. If we want to think positively, we need to speak positively.