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The secret to my success

#1: I take care of my body. By my body I mean both parts of my body, the parts above my shoulders and the parts below my shoulders.

Above my shoulders is the 1/8th of my height that contains my vocal cords (my words), my brain, and my four common senses — eyes, ears, tongue, and nose.

Below my shoulders are the other 7/8th of my height, the wordless part that contains my common senses number five (feel) and six (touch).

#2: Every day I respond to what’s going within me and without me. By I respond I mean to everything my six senses are able to sense.

Contrary to common sense

Contrary to our common senses, words are a different story entirely.

Word are understood, that is stood under, while our senses are sensed, that is stood over.

Invented 13,750 years ago (when the age was stone, the Sahara green, and Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice), words number meanwhile millions or more, billions if you believe the word-users that pretend to have counted them all. Be it as it may, millions words is a number far too large to remember, let alone to know them all. That is why we just keep repeating the same hundred words over and over again, like a constant replay of a song on our playlist that triggers both good thoughts (positive, constructive, uplifting ) and bad (stress, anxiety, fear, anger) over and over again. Most of the time we ignore which words trigger the good thoughts and which the bad.

This explains the importance of knowing which among the millions of words send positive signals from the brain to your body and which send negative signals instead. Positive words stimulate different areas of your brain that then releases the success hormones dopamine and oxytocin to your body that motivate you to succeed.

Five tried and true ways to succeed?

Practice words you clearly know the meaning of.
Monitor your feelings with a difference: Don’t think them, feel them instead!
Help others because helping others builds trust and generates word-of-mouth reputation.
Have a vision of ending up somewhere on purpose (as opposed to a rolling stone with no direction home) because vision has you doing the right things before doing things right.
Know the secret to always be on your journey is knowing you always are.

Together, these five ways to succeed allow you to replace bad words with good words, and therefore also replace successful thoughts with unsuccessful ones.

For example, if someone were to cut in front of you in the checkout line, you might replace the expletives forming on your tongue with words that help the other word-user, making you feel good.

Takeaway

Without further ado begin with the first of the five tried and true ways to succeed.

Work on your words.

It might just give you the extra shot of dopamine and oxytocin to make it another beautiful day to remember.

Alternatively, if you are struggling with negative words, thoughts and attitude, you can book one of my famous 1 on 1 calls. I look forward to getting to know you over a virtual cup of coffee. By the time we get to the end of a cappuccino, we will know how I can help you build a better life. 100% free. No upsells.

You can also sign up for my weekly newsletter, word explosion. Every Tuesday I’ll give you actionable tips to help you build a better life a word at a time.

The secret to my success

#1: I take care of my body. By my body I mean both parts of my body, the parts above my shoulders and the parts below my shoulders.

Above my shoulders is the 1/8th of my height that contains my vocal cords (my words), my brain, and my four common senses — eyes, ears, tongue, and nose.

Below my shoulders are the other 7/8th of my height, the wordless part that contains my common senses number five (feel) and six (touch).

#2: Every day I respond to what’s going within me and without me. By I respond I mean to everything my six senses are able to sense.

Contrary to common sense

Contrary to our common senses, words are a different story entirely.

Word are understood, that is stood under, while our senses are sensed, that is stood over.

Five tried and true ways to succeed?

Practice words you clearly know the meaning of.
Monitor your feelings with a difference: Don’t think them, feel them instead!
Help others because helping others builds trust and generates word-of-mouth reputation.
Have a vision of ending up somewhere on purpose (as opposed to a rolling stone with no direction home) because vision has you doing the right things before doing things right.
Know the secret to always be on your journey is knowing you always are.

Together, these five ways to succeed allow you to replace bad words with good words, and therefore also replace successful thoughts with unsuccessful ones.

For example, if someone were to cut in front of you in the checkout line, you might replace the expletives forming on your tongue with words that help the other word-user, making you feel good.

Takeaway

Without further ado begin with the first of the five tried and true ways to succeed.

Work on your words.

It might just give you the extra shot of dopamine and oxytocin to make it another beautiful day to remember.

You can also sign up for my weekly newsletter, word explosion. Every Tuesday I’ll give you actionable tips to help you build a better life a word at a time.

Clear thoughts

By Beat Schindler In You

When we are unsure about what’s going on within or without, an irresistible urge for clarity comes knocking at the door.

When that happens, some word-users seek solace in instant gratification such as pleasant sleep, pills, religion, playing cards, spectator sports, or other popular pastimes. Others seek solace in connecting with the wordless, also known as nature, watching a river flow, walking the dog, yoga, or fishing, to name a few.

Long story short

It doesn’t matter which group you belong to at different stages on your journey as things are changing, clarity cannot be achieved by hoping it’ll have stopped knocking on your door when you’re by yourself and the witnesses are gone. You must open the door to clarity and welcome it in. There’s no other way.

Clarity welcome

Once you welcome clarity, it’ll tell you that you’ve got three choices.

You can begin by thinking about clear thoughts, hoping that clear thoughts will lead to clear words. But don’t let me be misunderstood, thinking about your thinking is the hardest thinking of all, second only to thinking about what you’ve been thinking since you began.
You can begin by thinking about clear words, hoping clear words will lead to clear thoughts.

In the beginning

What is in the beginning? The word or the thought? Given thought is a word, the question answers itself for self-evident reasons.

3. You can begin by thinking about feelings. The benefits of feelings are manifold. When what you feel is clear, many decisions are already made. Feeling is believing. That’s because your feelings are felt, not thought, hence save you vast amounts of thinking. Though feeling is also a word, you felt feelings long before you knew it would later be a word which you learned only much later, between the ages of one to six, some faster, some slower. The trick with feeling is you must not think it, you must feel it. Feel what you are — 100% energy, 70% water, 30% fire-air-earth, 100% cells, and don’t worry if the math doesn’t add up, it will in the end. I’m not saying it’s easy. All I’m saying is give feelings a chance.

Since you don’t make choices, you make decisions, now is all up to you. Nobody else and no other word can make the decision for you. There is no candle in the window, you’ve got to find your own way home.

“We think too much and feel too little.” – Charlie Chaplin (final speech in The Great Dictator)
“You don’t know nothing, but you don’t need to know. The wisdom’s in the trees not the glass windows.” – Jack Johnson
What others are saying about feel:

https://go.schindlersword.com/eBouFv

Clear thoughts

When we are unsure about what’s going on within or without, an irresistible urge for clarity comes knocking at the door.

Long story short

Clarity welcome

Once you welcome clarity, it’ll tell you that you’ve got three choices.

You can begin by thinking about clear thoughts, hoping that clear thoughts will lead to clear words. But don’t let me be misunderstood, thinking about your thinking is the hardest thinking of all, second only to thinking about what you’ve been thinking since you began.
You can begin by thinking about clear words, hoping clear words will lead to clear thoughts.

In the beginning

What is in the beginning? The word or the thought? Given thought is a word, the question answers itself for self-evident reasons.

“We think too much and feel too little.” – Charlie Chaplin (final speech in The Great Dictator)
“You don’t know nothing, but you don’t need to know. The wisdom’s in the trees not the glass windows.” – Jack Johnson
What others are saying about feel:

Every word-user you think is lucky

By Beat Schindler In Words, You

Word-users you think are lucky are lucky because…

They keep their word.
They focus on the now.
They begin with the end in mind.
They are patient.
They have a “Study-to-Action Ratio” (SRA) below 10 (more about that in a forthcoming post).

Nobody is an overnight sensation.
No-one scores a lucky goal because they are lucky
It doesn’t exist.

Here’s what it usually is…

Consistent effort over time.
Willingness to take action.
Fighting through setbacks.

I’ve seen it here on LinkedIn.

Lucky word-users:

Post regularly.
Engage with their network.
Share their expertise consistently.
Know they are a miracle themselves (or they wouldn’t be here).
Believe in miracles.
Move from learning to action fast.
Listen instead of be listened to, understand rather than be understood, give instead of be given, help rather than be helped.

And suddenly everyone’s talking about how they hacked it to the top.

Don’t believe the lies.

Remember your luck is guaranteed if you do the above.

Every word-user you think is lucky

Every word-user you think is lucky is lucky because…

They keep their word.
They focus on the now.
They begin with the end in mind.
They are patient.
They have a “Study-to-Action Ratio” (SRA) below 10 (more about that in a forthcoming post).

Nobody is an overnight sensation.
No-one scores a lucky goal because they are lucky
It doesn’t exist.

Here’s what it usually is…

Consistent effort over time.
Willingness to take action.
Fighting through setbacks.

I’ve seen it here on LinkedIn.

Lucky word-users:

Post regularly.
Engage with their network.
Share their expertise consistently.
Know they are a miracle themselves (or they wouldn’t be here).
Believe in miracles.
Move from learning to action fast.
Listen instead of be listened to, understand rather than be understood, give instead of be given, help rather than be helped.

And suddenly everyone’s talking about how they hacked it to the top.

Don’t believe the lies.

Remember your luck is guaranteed if you do the above.

I average 16,000 words/day but I’m using only 500

By Beat Schindler In Words, You

16,000 words is what the average word-user uses per day, AI is telling me. But at the same time, internet is telling me that the number of English words is over 1,000,000. Should my math be as good as my word, the words used by the average word-user are a mere 1.6% of the total available, and the 500 I use a mere 0.1%.

I have a hard time believing that I count among the average word-users.
How about you?
Do you think that you’re using an average 16,000 words every day?

Be it as it may, some word-users I know think that they know every one of the 16,000 words, which I don’t believe because I don’t think that anyone can manage 16,000 words, let alone know them, day in day out.
And I’m not even talking about the million English words we reportedly possess in total.

I know. and therefore use only about 500 words daily, though I’m the first to admit they’re pretty much the same every day. I also know beyond the shadow of a doubt that words are the new real.

New real versus old real means when we see a cow painted, every child knows it’s a painting, not the cow. But when we hear cow, every adult doesn’t know it’s a word, not the cow. Practically speaking, most word-users now mistake words for reality, obviously ignoring that everything we have a word for is a word, and that everything we know is a word, too, reality included.

To illustrate, Picasso is said to have received at his studio a visitor that mistook his paintings for abstract. So Picasso asked if his visitor had a photo of his family, which the visitor proudly handed for Pablo to see, to which Picasso responded: “My, are they really that small?”

In other words, as paintings need painters to de-pict what they see, so words need scribes to de-scribe what they think.

The difference between pictures and words is that pictures are understood and words aren’t.

Over a million words, with new ones getting added as we speak, means we have a word for everything, including for nothing. Call it a dream, it doesn’t change anything. Fact is words are the new real because the average word-user mistakes words for reality. They don’t realize word and reality are different words for a reason. And who mistakes word for real will continue to suffer for as long as they have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to them.
If words control word-users means everyone else can control them. They don’t know that their power is sitting back and observing everything with logic.

Logically speaking, to say of two words that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one word that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.

Words are the new real because they sit on our nose, as it were, as glasses, and what we look at, we see through them. It doesn’t even occur to us to take them off.

At the risk of repeating myself, call words a dream — it doesn’t change anything.

I’d love to know how you tell reality from words?
Tell me in the comments below. Thanks!

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I average 16,000 words/day but I’m using only 500

I average 16,000 words/day but I’m using only 500.

I have a hard time believing that I count among the average word-users.
How about you?
Do you think that you’re using an average 16,000 words every day?

I know and therefore use only about 500 words daily, though I’m the first to admit they’re pretty much the same every day. I also know beyond the shadow of a doubt that words are the new real.