Thank you so much for writing about this! Carol makes a good point — we aren’t even conscious of how much our words affect our actions. There is so much ‘good’ everywhere around us. We just fail sometimes to acknowledge it, and now we have a place where we can. I hope you don’t mind me asking everyone reading this to ask yourselves, “Is there anyone I could recognize today?”

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After doing this exercise, they had to report to someone who was speaking to another person. For those people who had “rude” words in their activity, they interrupted 60% of the time, vs. 20% for the “polite” word activity.

They all reported that the previous word activity had no effect on their actions afterwards.

Bottom line – most of our actions are sub-conscious. If we can “raise the bar” on the words we use, we will act in compliance with those words!