The Power Of Your Thoughts

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny

Lao Tzu

I spoke with a friend of mine who likes to speak in the radio.

She is very talented and eloquent.

I asked how could she manage to be so assertive and poignant when needed.

She explained me how difficult is in the beginning to be a speaker or in this case a radio interlocutor.

I pondered her expertise and I applauded her character to say the right words at the right time.

How can you have this sea of words ready when you need them? I asked.

She told me that everyday she likes to read good writings, blogs, books, articles, etc. so she can have material in her brain.

She explained me that human mind is very tricky. Why? Because your mind acts like a big reservoir of thoughts and ideas. Everything you see or hear or interact, remain in your mind.

The more you add to your mind, the more you have available when you need to express yourself orally, written or in everyday actions.

So this ideas will turn into words when needed, this can be conscious or unconsciously.

Wow, that explains a lot. By example that time when you were a little kid and you said that phrase that caused you to be grounded for at least a week. Huh? You remember, correct?

We are influenced by our thoughts specially when they become words. We might as well influence others.

If good words, we'll be noticed nicely. If bad words, we won't be a person, our friends would like to be around.

These words will contribute in our actions.

Actions that can give us pride or embarrassment.

Whenever we repeat those actions in a timely basis, they would turn into good or bad habits.

If good habits, those will increment our growth intellectually, morally, financially.

But if bad habits, the outcome will be the opposite. A decrease in the aspects mentioned before.

Also those habits will influence in our personality that feeds our character as a persona.

Now we have the two blade sword.

When our character is fed by good habits we sharpen a more positive destiny for ourselves and our loved ones as well.

Ivan Caballero