Put Better Words to Work
When you put better words to work, you create a path to your best life. The world is throwing negatives, discouragements, and detractors in your path (and sometimes right at your head). The attacks seem to come from every direction all at once or sometimes just a little bit at a time. In order to be armored up and protected enough to stand against a world determined to tear you down, you have to actively invest in words that build you up.
We are in this world, but we are not to be of it.
Even though we have to live in this world, we do not have to be conformed by it or to it.
Choosing the better will:
- Touch the heart
- Change the life
- Solidify the foundation
You build a box
of THEY design
when you try to conform
to what THEY dictate.
Becoming Aware of World Words
Several years – okay, about the time my children became able to mimic what I had said or what I had been watching or singing – I began to be acutely aware of words. The popular songs I could belt out with the best of the turned out to have some mixed-up messages. The award-winning movies had scenes that made me cover the eyes of my children or wish I had magic muting software (for the television of course, and not for the boys). The best-seller books that filled my shelves suddenly became land minds waiting to go off.
In my heart, I think I always knew that they weren’t the best choices, at least a little bit. But if the rest of the world didn’t notice, why should I worry? How bad could they be if my friends’ parents took us to see the show or the church youth group was playing the music at the lock-in?
Having the words or ideas highlighted by my young children made it impossible to deny what the world championed provided the wrong words. I had to make adjustments to block out the world words and create a habit for better.
Make the adjustments from the world words to the better words of possibility. Share on XRealigning to Better Words
It is a choice. Which words rule my day – or affect the people in my care – are dictated by the choices I make for what I watch, what I read, and what I hear. If I want better leading the way then I have to make intentionally better choices.
There was a time when I wouldn’t read or watch something I wouldn’t let my children have access to. As they grew up, I grew away from that habit. Little by little, I have allowed the world more room in my day. I have to make the little by little movements to re-align back to the better habits of better words.
Words of Hope Touch the Heart
Hope makes it better. Hope plants a seed of possibility. Hope makes a way. And hope is the fuel that feeds the heart. The better words are full of hope or have an edge of hope. The more you fuel your heart with hope words, the more hope you will find you are sharing. When the heart shares hope, it touches a heart with hope.
During a particularly rough season for our family, I had to work in the same room my youngest son was trying to go to sleep. At the same time, in the room next door, my father-in-law would be watching something at decibels loud enough to keep the coyotes from coming near the house. In an attempt to find peace in the midst of it all, I would play the Counting Stars CD by Andrew Peterson. Even now, there are days when my husband asks for that CD. It’s full of sounds of hope that continue to touch our hearts.
What I learned from that time is that no matter how loud the world gets, hope will find a way in if we seek it out.
Whatever the heart dares to believe, the man who holds it can bring it to life. Share on XPositive Words Change the Life
Whatever the heart dares to believe, the man who holds it can bring it to life. Positive words feed the possibility thinking and possibility thinking never faces a problem that doesn’t have a solution. The better words available to us will encourage the intentional actions necessary for building up unique pathways to your design.
When I was younger, I believed that I could. It didn’t matter what it was, I had no doubt I could do it. My cousin had a wild horse in a field behind his house. He told me that if I climbed the tree the horse walked under then I could jump on it and go for a ride. He probably giggled when he told me about the great opportunity. All I heard was I could. I climbed the tree, waited, and when the horse walked under I jumped on his back and had a great ride around the field.
Maybe it was because I was small enough the horse didn’t really notice – he’d thrown my cousin on more than one occasion. But I like to think it was because I believed I could, so I did.
What I have learned is that the power of belief is one of the most powerful forces on earth, The good, positive, encouraging, and uplifting words will fuel a heart’s ability to gift life to impossible dreams.
Set a Solid Foundation
Line upon line. Precept upon precept. A little here and a little there – that’s how things are built. Better words lead to better words that lead to the desire for more better words and the need to spread those better words around. Each word helps to solidify the foundation required to stand against the storms of the world.
I have surrounded myself with intentional words – the words above my computer “Have fun. Make friends. Be relentlessly helpful” are not only my motto, but a reminder that it is about so much more than me. The “radio stations” I’ve created on the streaming software are either soothing to fuel my peace or inspirational to fuel my hope and boldness.
Each intentional word has provided the foundation I need to get through the tough times. From the family trials to the personal time-outs. Words matter. When I feed on the better then I provide a better foundation for standing strong.
What I’ve learned is that if I am going to make it through the storms, I have to build a bank of better before the storms show up.
Implementing the Better
Creating a habit of better words starts with a choice. The more choices you make for your better, the stronger the better becomes for your journey. With enough investment, the better becomes your default.
- Write out the words. Each time you come across a great quote or thought, write it down in a journal or an index card. I keep a recipe box of hope words where I store my index cards.
- Bank hope music. Train your streaming services to play the songs that light up your heart, make you smile, or fuel your courage. Whatever is good, positive, encouraging, or uplifting for you, meditate on that.
- Take time to be grateful. Before you get up in the morning, think of one thing that you can be grateful for. Before you go to sleep at night, offer up another thankful gratitude.
- Gather together the positive and encouraging words shared with you. Build a folder of encouragement or wall of encouragement. Collect all the emails, letters, direct messages, or other communication that you receive that warms your heart and mind.
The world is coming at you every day. The better will provide the armor you need to get there, to stand strong, and to be a stabling force for others.
There may be no way you can avoid the world, but you can choose better words that allow you to be transformed beyond this world. Build a reservoir of better with words of hope, encouragement, and possibility thinking. Words have power and the better ones make a way for you to live exceeding abundantly beyond what you can think or imagine.
How will you find the words you need to build a path to your unique life?
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