“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.”

— Lao Tzu

I believe that words do indeed influence actions and habits. As such, I am going to be mindful of using positive words now and during the coming year.

Here are 100 words that I plan utilize on a daily, monthly, and annual basis to share inspiration and build better habits:

Acceptance

Accomplish

Act

Appreciate

Balance

BE

Beauty

Believe

Breathe

Can

Caring

Celebrate

Clarity

Cleanse

Collaborate

Compassion

Create

Destiny

Discipline

Dream

Earnest

Empathy

Encourage

Energize

Enjoy

Excellence

Exuberant

Fairness

Faith

Flexible

Focus

Freedom

Friendship

Frugal

Goal

Grace

Grateful

Habit

Health

Honesty

Hope

Humble

Inspirational

Journey

Joyful

Karma

Kind

Knowledge

Laughter

Lead

Learn

Life

Live

Love

Matter

Mindful

Mission

Moderation

Motivate

Neat

New

Now

Opportunities

Optimistic

Passion

Patience

Peace

Perseverance

Persistence

Positive

Possibility

Prayer

Present

Professional

Promise

Purpose

Quality

Questions

Reflect

Respect

Rise

Simple

Smile

Success

Synergy

Teamwork

Thanks

Transform

Trust

Try

Unselfish

Uplift

Valuable

Vision

Wisdom

Wise

Wow

X-efficiency

Youthful

Zestful

Feel free to use this list and and add words to keep your favorites front of mind.

Originally published at medium.com