Actions speak louder than words. Or do they?

Melissa Macfarlane

13/01/2009 04:25 PM
The moment words escape our lips, we can’t take them back. "I want to be. I am going to be. I am." I said it and it happened. A little part of me feels that it was dumb luck, but another part of me feels that I made it happen myself.

I have this…thing…that happens to me. When I say something out loud to others, something that I want to achieve, I find that it actually happens. Is it because I’ve told someone, so I want to make sure that I do it—to make sure I don’t look bad in their eyes? Have I provided myself with extra motivation to achieve the end result? Or is it because saying it out loud cements the fact in my head that I believe that I can?

Believing in yourself and your capability to reach a goal sky rockets you to success. After all, if you do not believe you can do it, are you really going to put forth your best effort?

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I intended to achieve my goal, not only because I wanted to, but because I also believed I could too. The power of intent gave me motivation to keep moving forward. I communicated to people I knew what I wanted to do, and the more people I told, the more I believed it could happen.

By talking about my goal, I also found people who could help me. It’s funny, the nature of people to chatter about themselves and others. "I know someone who…" suddenly ends with "can help you." Seemingly miraculous, my intentions have become someone else’s and I am one step closer to being. Sitting back and looking at this situation, I can assess how my words and actions that I put out there filtered their way to a positive end. I made it happen, I set it in motion, it was not actually a miracle. I didn’t keep my intentions a secret