“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