It really does make a difference how we talk -? to ourselves and to others. Words can alter the way we feel, the way others feel about us, and what we represent in business, in marketing, in sales, as well as our own personal lives. Using the right words is absolutely vital if you want to love and grow rich!
I have trademarked a term you've probably never heard before -? VocabuLOVE?! It's a word I invented that has to do with the language that taps into the power of love. I developed the term to help people understand the tremendous power words possess.
Take the Tasaday Tribe in the Philippines for example. They really are pretty unremarkable except for one small characteristic. They literally don't have words in their language for ?hate? or ?war.? Now, the most peculiar aspect of this, some would say, is that they actually treat each other without hate, they don't fight and they've never gone to war! It illustrates the fact that we -? as human beings -? may be incapable of feeling some specific emotions if we have no words to describe them.
So how do you apply this to your own life? Stop using the words that lead you away from the way you want to feel. That alone will have a huge impact on you and on those you associate with. VocabuLOVE! is amazing in that it can significantly affect the way you feel. The first step is to recognize which words you need to change. Then you'll be able to do something about it and enjoy much greater success as a result.
A core concept in VocabuLOVE! is that you don't speak negatively about anybody or anything. Very early on, my dad and mom taught me and my siblings to always look for the good in others, and it has made a huge difference in my life.
In today's world there's so much negativity. You can't turn on the news or read a newspaper or magazine without someone saying negative things about someone else. Of course, sometimes it's necessary to point out things that can and should be improved, but it needs to be done with an attitude of ?constructive criticism,? and an attitude of ?I love you, and so I want to help you become even better.? My wife is good at that. ?Tim, I love you, and here's something you're doing that you need to improve upon.? That makes all the difference in the world.
VocabuLOVE! is an excellent technique to really discover how many negative things we say in a day. It's also a useful tool to learn how often we find fault with others. By using VocabuLOVE! you'll understand how negative conversations take you far from where you should be in your thoughts and actions.
Focus on and speak about why you love your career, why you love what you represent, why you love your co-workers and clients, and why you love your spouse and family. It totally changes the way you feel about everything and everyone and helps lead you to ?loving and growing rich.?
The Words We Use
Maybe you'll have to have periodic family councils to hammer out just what kinds of canine behavior are and are not acceptable to various members of the clan. By all means get it straight among the human members of the family; otherwise, if you are unpredictable and all pulling in different directions, the puppy will end up a confused mess, and it will be your fault. Once you have agreed on what goes, enforce the rules. "Oh, let her do it just this once," is a sure way to wreck the training program and confuse the pup.
Your puppy probably comes to you having either no vocabulary or a very limited one. Decide your words of command and make the whole family use only those words. It's not productive when people go chattering away, nagging and nagging their puppies with the vocabulary of human adults, then wondering why the poor, silly puppies don't seem to get the message. My husband Charles and I had a discussion some years back about the terms we used to encourage a puppy to eliminate outside. He was I think understandably, somewhat put off at standing around telling a huge our Dane puppy to "Go potty."
I find that term comfortable and easily understood by a pup. However, as I agreed with him then and still do, use any term that's easy to understand - which means short - and comfortable, as long as that's the terminology you always use for that particular behavior. With Tiger, whom we were house- breaking at the time, Charles got outstanding results by telling her first to "make a puddle," then telling her to "go poop." After all, those were the words she understood.
There is another all-purpose word that is used over the years with puppies: GENTLE. Drawn out and said slowly, the word sounds like the behavior we are encouraging. When a puppy is playing too roughly, for instance, a calming hand accompanied by the repetition of the "Gentle" command will serve to quiet the situation. The puppy isn't doing something essentially wrong when you want the "Gentle" command - it's just doing too much or too vigorously.
So, the curious puppy that is nosing a resident cat will be warned to be GENTLE. I want the puppy and the cat to get along - insist on it, in fact - so this is not a time for NO.
Obviously the older dog that knows "Gentle" will understand what it's doing wrong if it gets too rough with a puppy. The puppy who greets someone too rambunctiously is throttled down, as it were, with the "Gentle!" warning. If you think of the "NO" as a red light, "Gentle" is the amber, or warning, light. A very useful command, I've found.
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