11 examples you can apply immediately to know you

I’ve been a word fan ever since I rediscovered, in 2016, that everything I know is a word.

Over the last couple of days, I looked for 12 examples you can immediately apply to know you, found 11, and learned a lot in the process. Not bad for a start, says I. So here, delighted to share, are your 11 examples you can apply immediately to know you, or to know you better, as the case may be.

Example 1: Many word-users resist accepting that you is a word (I wrote about this in this previous post). Of course, it’s not just about you. Everything in this post is a word. Put differently, there are no truths here to be found. What you make of my words is outside of my control. When it’s about words, it’s all up to you.

Example 2: When you realise that you describes…

…what you are, what you do, and what you have — 3 different stories entirely — you know more about you than 99% of your fellow word-users know about them.

Example 3: Regardless of how many blames and faults you find with your fellow word-users, or alternatively with the wordless, it will not change you. Only when you stop blaming and faulting others will you change before the day is over.

Example 4: Be happy like a child for no reason at all. If you’re happy like an adult, with reasons, you’re in trouble because those reasons can be taken away from you.

Example 5: Believe that there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. Believe that life happens for you, not to you. Words attract that upon which they are directed. “There is genuine magic in believing.” – Claude Bristol

Example 6: Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your heart, the blueprint of what you’re here for. “Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?” – Shakespeare

Example 7: Do not do what you would undo if caught by yourself, your friends, or your enemies. Put differently, keep your word and you shall know yourself faster than by any other way I know of.

Example 8: Be curious. Not only because it is the source of intelligence, but also because behind every horizon is always another you to discover. Get out of your comfort zone. “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Example 9: I learned this from Mark Twain: “Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.” Embrace delayed gratification, the key to achieve your long-term vision, for when your ambition is gone, you may still exist, but you may as well be dead.

Example 10: Everything is energy, and so are you. “Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only be changed from one form to another” – Albert Einstein. That is all there is to everything. Match the frequency of your words to that of energy, and you cannot help but get that energy.

Example 11: Changing what you have comes from changing what you do and have, and when you change how you look at words, you change what you do and have.

The 11 examples in a nutshell:

• If you follow even just some of the 11, you’ll know more of you than 99% of your fellow word-users know of them.
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• To practice the examples, leave your comfort zone behind. Be ridiculous. How much fun can that be? Nothing is more fun than making the exfearience for yourself. Because you dare. Because you can. Not because you must. There is no must involved.
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• Change how you look at words, and the change of you is certain. That is what I wish for all of you.