The power of words, the power of languaging. There’s really two distinctions. One is what I call victimspeak. If you watch a victim speaking, you’ll hear things like, “I can’t, I’m sick of, I’m tired of, I don’t like this.” Then, if you hear a leader speak, I call it leadership vocabulary, it’s much more the language of possibility, much more the language of inspiration, much more the language of energy, much more the language of what can be made to happen.
Do you have your own reality distortion fields so that when people are around you, through
your language, you uplift them? Bottom line, words can uplift, or words can destroy. If you look at a Nelson Mandela or you look at a Martin Luther King, Jr. In his I Have A Dream speech, he used the language that lifted up an entire nation, that showed people what was possible, that painted a gorgeous picture of the future. Then, you’ve got some so-called leaders, and rather than the language of. leadership, they use the language of hate. The words they used didn’t lift people up, but they destroyed entire nations.
I invite you, as you make your leap from where you currently are to where you always wanted to be, to get your words right. I’m absolutely fanatic about the words I use because I understand the words I use so influence the people around me. I so understand the words I use affect my energy. Call a problem a problem and it becomes a problem. Call a problem an opportunity, and it totally reframes your psychology and your emotional architecture about how you reply to it.