If you’re not where you wanted to be, you may be wondering why. There are lots of reasons why we run afoul of our intentions. Sometimes we make a too-ambitious plan we simply don’t have the skills or energy to execute. I know for me I have so many dreams and plans for my life that I sometimes can’t get them to even start or sometimes I will find myself facing an emotional roadblock that I don’t know how to get through, so I run out of steam. I’m sure I’m not alone…
It is often, the forward movement comes to a screeching halt because we simply don’t keep our word to ourselves.
I hear a lot of these comments on a daily basis, like “Tomorrow I’ll get up early and go to the gym”, and then they end up breaking them and say “Awww, it’s raining, I think I’ll stay in bed. I’ll go to the gym on my way home” – often for reasons they don’t even understand. But for me I want my clients, friends or family to realize I don’t want them to make me any promises, I want them to make the promise to themselves. Which brings me to what might be an uncomfortable question: How good are you to your word?
Words are powerful forces of creation. They take our dreams and goals and put them out there for the entire world to witness.
People need to speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth, how are you going to take yourself serious if you are lying to everyone else?
Insisting on speaking the whole truth and nothing but the truth all the time doesn’t seem practical or wise; it seems reckless and undiscerning. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love for yourself.
You will find yourself to be a much happier person when your words match your intentions and when your actions match your words. You will find yourself sleeping better when there are no niggling half-truths keeping you awake at night.
As your word becomes more and more powerful, your reality will begin to reflect that. As you speak from a place of integrity, and use powerful language in the service of your highest choices, you will start to manifest those choices very much as you have described them. When that happens, you’ll know you are on the right path and headed in the best possible direction – the direction of your dreams.