Words, Sticks, and Stones Can Break Bones

Issue #0002 October 8, 2019

Happy Tuesday, October 8, 2019!

Wealth Matters Focal Point today: Our vocabulary and the way that we choose to use it directly contributes to the level of emotional wealth we experience on a day-to-day basis. Choosing our words carefully and understanding the context of the aggregate effect of words on society is the focus of today’s insights.

“Everyone of us from time to time will lack self-esteem. Nothing is wrong – we are simply human. Self-worth, on the other hand, is the emotional net worth that reflects of our personality balance sheet of who we are-all of our strengths, and who we are not-all our weaknesses and flaws.” ~Chet Snook

Permit me to suggest that the quality of our lives can be directly related to the quality of the words we use with ourselves and others, and the quality of questions that we ask both quietly and out loud before we speak.

Words have tremendous POWER to create or destroy.

The words we use literally define and shape our lives because they are the tools we u…