Language Habits


Language Habits

Language habits.

The habits of your language.

As the artist paints a picture, your language paints your world.

As the musician plays their tune, your language creates your song.

As the chef cooks with their ingredients, your language dictates your flavor.

If you want to change your world, change your language.

Paint with better words.

Modify the combination of your characters to create a better tune.

Change the ingredients of phrases you use often to change your outcome. 

And when you have done this, change them everywhere.

Change your language habits in your spoken word. 

Change your language habits in your mental world.

Change your language in stimulus and response. 

Do this and your world will change.

The default way of existing is to live within the pre-defined patterns of our language habits.

Unless examined, language habits dictate the quality of your life. 

You are stimulated by something outside of you or inside of you.

And a sound comes out of your mouth or your mind.

And you speak.

Or you think. 

And as such, you live within the meaning of those noises that your being has learned to create. 

Heavily influenced by outside stimuli, this being creates with the paint it learned to paint with.

The musical notes it learned to dance to.

The best ingredients it was able to receive.

And whoever you are now, you have a choice.

You get to choose.

To choose your paint. Your musical notes. Your ingredients. 

In every moment.

In moments of pain.

In moments of anger. 

In moments of joy. 

In moments of suffering.

In moments of frustration. 

In moments of happiness.

You get to choose how you see your world.

You get to create your language and mold your habits to exist better.

To exist and live into the being that you are chasing in the most remarkable version of the future you can imagine. 

Having such power is not a question of possibility.

It is a matter of willingness.

Willingness to slow down.

Willingness to see differently.

Willingness to allow yourself the space to create something that no one else can give you.

I guess time will tell what you are willing to do.


By Matthew Gallizzi. Consultant. Thinking Partner. Strategic Advisor. He believes our language creates our world. He equips business leaders as they live into their future vision.

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