Choose your words carefully… Please and Thank you :)

If a friend of yours,
or someone you respected
told you that you looked sick
today, would you believe them ?
If a complete stranger told you
that you looked sick today
would you believe them ?
If a half a dozen people told you
that you looked sick today
would you believe them ?

Would you at least wonder that if that many people
told you looked sick today there may be a chance
that you may be coming down with something ?
And as you begin to ponder this possibility,
you become very aware of every sensation in your body.
Every blink, bump and blemish becomes evidence
that there is inded something wrong with you.

Then begin to ask yourself and others if you look sick.
And it isn’t long before you really do begin looking ill,
and your body accepts the reality that
has been created of being sick.

This is not new information.
We’ve long had cases where perfectly healthy people were
convinced that they weren’t healthy and soon developed
symptoms of the illness they were purported to have.
The words said to us by ourselves and others have
a profound and very real effect on us, which is to say
that the words we hear directly affect our very lives.

So here we are in the year 2014.
I think it is safe to say that we are in a crisis.
After all, didn’t our very own President -
the leader of the most powerful country
on earth, tell us this not so long ago?
“A failure to act, and act now,
will turn crisis into a catastrophe.”
(kudos to his speech writers, by the way -
I enjoy well crafted phrases )

How long ago did we hear that we were in a recession ?
I think that started several years ago.
And oh sure – many in “power” denied it -
but the seed had been planted, repeated often enough
and finally accepted by us.
You know; “We the people”.
That us.

So naturally we acted as if we were in a recession, and
the evidence came forth to support it; and we all smiled
at ourselves for being responsible and taking action.

And now that we are experiencing
such tumultuous economic times:
we are rolling up our sleeves again.
And once again we are creating  the
very chaos that we hope to cure.
Everywhere I turn I hear
media sources espousing these
“tough economic times” as if there were a reward for it.
Their efforts are paying off, because even at work
I am hearing phrases like: “times are tough”
“in this ecomomy” “in times like these”
“an economy like this” “with the economy like it is”
“in these tough economic times”
“with the economy the way it is”

And with every breath; every word uttered,
we reinforce it – and make it so.

I am surely no Pollyanna;
nor an optimist without a sense of reality.
(* The following might sound political only because
many of the words can be found within
the camps of the politically minded.)

The salvation we seek in these “troubled times”
will not come from any bailout or “package”.
The quick fixes and short term solutions created
to appease a majority of short sighted and impatient
individuals will consistently cause many times more
harm than any amount of temporary healing.
(For those who need a visual example, try
putting out a fire by throwing gasoline on it)

We will create the economy we experience
by the efforts and energies we put into it.
It will not come from a press release.
It will not be handed down from on high.

If you are looking for a green light – you’ve got it:
GO SUCCEED !!!

Y O U can and will make a contribution to not only
your own life but to the lives of those around you
by creating it within the words you speak.

Choose your words carefully – please.

please, and thank you