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you know it's a strange thing most
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people walk around thinking words are
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just noise just filler just what we do
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to get through the day but that's not
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true words aren't neutral they're a
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reflection of what's going on inside you
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every sentence you speak is a signal it
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tells the world something about your
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mindset your emotional state and even
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how much
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selfrol you really have and and if
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you're not paying attention to the words
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that come out of your mouth chances are
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you're not paying attention to what's
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going on inside your mind either think
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about it when someone is bitter you hear
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it in their voice before you even
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understand the content sarcasm
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resentment passive aggression those
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aren't just quirks of personality
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they're
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symptoms they're the outer
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manifestations of something unresolved
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and what's terrifying is that when we
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normalize this kind of speech when we
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stop noticing the tone the impact the
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negativity it's usually because we've
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gotten used to the internal chaos that
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fuels it we've made it part of our
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identity but here's the truth your words
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are always teaching the world how to
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treat you there telling others whether
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or not you can be taken seriously
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whether you're reliable whether you're
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calm under pressure whether you speak
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from a place of purpose or panic and
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more than that they're teaching you who
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you are every time you speak you
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reinforce the story you tell yourself
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about yourself if that story is angry
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reactive self-pittitying or defeist and
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you say it enough times guess what you
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start to believe it and then you live it
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over and over again until it becomes
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your reality so if you want to take your
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life seriously if you want to build
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something meaningful whether it's a
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business a relationship a career or even
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just a stronger version of yourself you
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have to take your word seriously too
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that's not optional that's foundational
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because when you begin to control what
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you say you begin to control how you
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think and when you control how you think
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you change how you act and when you
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change how you act your whole world
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starts to shift but let's not pretend
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it's easy it's not especially when
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you're tired or hurt or triggered by
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something from your past those are the
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moments where the mouth runs faster than
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the mind you snap at someone you make a
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joke at the expense of someone else you
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drop a bitter comment that poisons the
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whole room and afterward maybe you tell
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yourself "It didn't matter but it did
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matter it always matters." Because every
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careless word weakens your discipline
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and discipline is what separates the
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person who reacts to life from the one
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who builds it so what do you do you
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start small you pay attention to the
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tone of your voice when you're under
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stress you catch yourself before you
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unload your frustration on someone who
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doesn't deserve it you ask yourself why
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am I saying this what am I trying to
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achieve here you learn to pause not
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because you're afraid to speak but
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because you respect your words too much
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to waste them that pause that breath
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that moment of restraint it's not
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weakness it's power it's you saying to
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the chaos inside you you get to speak
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for me
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anymore and over time something starts
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to shift you find that the words you
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speak carry more weight people listen
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more closely you start to choose honesty
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over sarcasm precision over blame
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encouragement over criticism and what's
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remarkable is that the more intentional
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you become with your words the more
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clarity you gain over your thoughts you
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start to clean up the clutter in your
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mind and that right there is when your
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life begins to rise out of the fog and
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into something solid something worthy
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you see the discipline of speech isn't
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about sounding polished or perfect it's
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about living in alignment it's about
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refusing to let your inner chaos leak
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out into the world in the form of
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careless words because when you control
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your words you begin to shape your
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reality brick by
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brick and if you do that long enough
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with enough truth and enough courage you
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don't just change the way you speak you
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change the kind of person you are
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control your words and you reclaim your
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mind control your mind and you reclaim
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your life there's this misconception out
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there that if you don't speak up
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immediately if you don't fire back if
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you don't voice your opinion at every
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turn you're somehow weak passive
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indecisive but that's not strength
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that's
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noise and noise for the most part is the
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mask people wear when they haven't yet
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learned to control their emotions let me
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tell you something silence is not
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weakness it's not fear it's not
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avoidance silence in its proper form is
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strength under
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control it's the restraint of a person
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who could speak could lash out could
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dominate the room but chooses not to why
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because they understand the value of
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timing they understand the value of
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precision they understand that words
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spoken without clarity without emotional
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discipline can do more damage than
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silence ever could think about the last
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time you said something in anger truly
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in anger the kind of moment where the
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words come fast sharp and unfiltered
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what came after that did you feel better
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maybe for a split second but what
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followed was probably regret maybe even
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guilt you look back and realize you
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didn't really mean half of what you said
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but the damage was done words once
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released can't be pulled back and most
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of the time when we look back the truth
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is this we just needed a moment of
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silence a breath a pause that was all
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but we don't take that pause do we
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because silence feels uncomfortable it
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feels like defeat in a world that tells
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us we always have to have a comeback
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always have to defend ourselves always
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have to be the loudest voice in the room
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but here's the irony the loudest voice
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is often the most insecure the one who
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fills every gap in conversation with
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noise is usually the one who hasn't yet
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learned how to sit with their own
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thoughts they fear silence because they
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fear what might rise up from it and yet
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silence is exactly what you need if you
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want to understand yourself because it's
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only in silence that clarity emerges
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it's in silence that your emotions
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settle enough to be understood and when
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you understand what you're feeling when
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you're no longer ruled by it you gain
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the power to speak from wisdom rather
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than reactivity that is not weakness
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that's mastery it takes more strength to
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stay quiet in a moment of chaos than to
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unleash every volatile thought that
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races through your head it takes more
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selfrespect to walk away from an
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argument than to win it by tearing
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someone down and it takes a far deeper
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kind of courage to say nothing when
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provoked especially when you know you
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could say something
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devastating that's not silence born from
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fear that's silence born from dominance
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over self and that's the real battle
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isn't it not the war of words with other
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people but the internal battle with your
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own impulses every time you choose
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silence over reaction you're telling
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your emotions you don't get to run the
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show you're choosing to be intentional
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instead of instinctive strategic instead
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of sloppy calm instead of chaotic but
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silence isn't just a tool for
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self-control it's a tool for listening
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when you stop talking you start noticing
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you start hearing things that were
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buried beneath your own noise things
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about the people around you about what's
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really being said and often things about
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yourself you begin to observe patterns
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motives pain points you start to see
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where your words can actually do good
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when they're chosen with care when
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they're placed with precision and when
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you do speak your words carry weight why
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because you don't speak all the time you
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don't fill every space just to be heard
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people learn to lean in when you talk
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because they know your silence wasn't
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empty it was
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thoughtful and that's the kind of speech
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that can move people not because it's
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loud not because it's clever but because
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it's rooted in something deeper than ego
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so don't be afraid of silence embrace it
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cultivate it learn to be alone with your
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thoughts long enough that they become
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something worth sharing let your silence
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be the soil where your strength grows
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because when you can master the moment
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between stimulus and response when you
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can sit in that stillness and hold your
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ground without speaking you become
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something grounded dangerous in the best
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possible way in a world addicted to
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noise the one who controls their silence
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controls the room you've probably heard
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the phrase "Sticks and stones may break
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my bones but words will never hurt me."
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It's a nice idea it sounds tough stoic
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even but it's wrong deep down we all
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know it words do hurt they linger they
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echo in the background of our mind
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sometimes for years you can take a hit
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to the body and recover bruises fade but
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a few careless words spoken at the wrong
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time that can carve into someone's
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identity that can follow them like a
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shadow the truth is words are one of the
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most powerful tools we have and like any
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tool they can build or destroy a hammer
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can be used to construct a home or tear
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one apart same with your speech you can
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speak life into someone or you can drain
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it out of them and most people don't
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realize just how farreaching their words
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really are they toss out comments like
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they're weightless a little criticism
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here a sarcastic jab there a a mocking
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tone a harsh truth delivered without
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compassion and then they walk away
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completely unaware that they may have
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just shifted the course of someone's
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internal world sometimes all it takes is
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a single sentence to break a person a
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teacher telling a student "You'll never
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be smart enough." A parent sighing "Why
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can't you be more like your brother?" a
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friend joking you're always the failure
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of the group you hear those things
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especially when you're young or
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vulnerable and they become part of the
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way you see yourself they plant
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themselves deep like roots and unless
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someone comes along and speaks a
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different kind of word one that uplifts
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one that heals those roots grow but the
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opposite is also true words can rebuild
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they can offer clarity direction and
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hope one kind word in the right moment
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can shift a person's entire sense of
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identity someone says "I believe in
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you." And suddenly a door opens in your
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mind you've got something special and
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maybe for the first time you see
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yourself not as broken but as
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capable words when they're honest and
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intentional have the power to restore
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dignity they can carry truth into places
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where lies have been living for years so
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the question becomes what kind of impact
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do you want to have on the people around
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you because you are having an impact
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whether you recognize it or not the way
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you speak to others your tone your
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timing your choice of words it's shaping
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their experience every single day and
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that's a responsibility you shouldn't
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take lightly especially if you're
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someone people look up to a leader a
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parent a mentor or even just a friend
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who shows up when it counts and it's not
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just about how you speak to others it's
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also how you speak to yourself because
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if you're constantly talking to yourself
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with condemnation judgment defeat those
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words build a prison inside your own
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mind and that prison becomes the limit
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of your potential but if you begin
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speaking with honesty courage and
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self-respect even when you fall short
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then those words become the bricks of a
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foundation you can stand on they become
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the voice of reason in the middle of
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doubt you see words are never neutral
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they either build or break there's no in
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between so when you're angry ask
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yourself am I about to build something
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here or tear something down when you're
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giving feedback am I helping this person
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grow or am I trying to make them feel
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small and when you talk to yourself at
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the end of the day am I reinforcing the
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truth about who I can become or am I
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repeating old lies that keep me stuck
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this isn't about being soft or
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pretending everything is sunshine and
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comfort sometimes the most powerful
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words you'll ever hear are the ones that
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hold you accountable that wake you up
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but even those should be rooted in a
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desire to build not destroy truth is not
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an excuse to be cruel honesty should
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never be weaponized it should be
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delivered with care with precision with
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the intention to lift not crush so speak
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like it matters because it does choose
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your words as if someone's future
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depends on them because it might maybe
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even your own you'll never fully know
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how much power your voice holds until
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you begin using it deliberately
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thoughtfully responsibly when you
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understand the weight of your words you
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don't speak to impress you speak to
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impact and that's when you stop echoing
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noise and start creating meaning do you
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ever notice how quickly things can
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spiral when you're emotional one second
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you're just slightly irritated and the
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next you're saying something you can't
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take back it happens in a flash and
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afterward you're left staring at the
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damage wondering how a small spark
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turned into a firestorm that's the
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danger of speaking while triggered your
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emotions grab the wheel your rationality
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gets shoved into the back seat and your
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mouth becomes a weapon instead of a tool
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we all have triggers that's part of
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being human maybe it's when someone
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questions your competence or interrupts
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you or ignores your effort maybe it's
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being compared to someone else or being
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dismissed or reminded of something
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you've spent years trying to forget and
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when that trigger gets pulled the
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emotional reaction is intense it feels
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immediate overwhelming like something
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inside you has to be expressed and in
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that moment your instinct is to let the
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words fly to defend to retaliate to
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reclaim your sense of control but here's
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the problem when you speak from that
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place you're not responding to the
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present you're reacting from the
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past you're not just dealing with what
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was said or done in that moment you're
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dealing with everything that's ever made
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you feel that same
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way that's why it feels so big so
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personal because it is but it's not
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about them it's about something
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unresolved in you and if you don't
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recognize that you'll keep saying things
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you regret you'll keep burning bridges
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you didn't need to burn you'll keep
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wounding people who didn't deserve it
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and worst of all you'll keep reinforcing
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the lie that you can't control yourself
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when you're emotional but you can you
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must because every time you speak from a
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triggered state you hand over your power
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you become a puppet pulled by old
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strings and those strings are often tied
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to pain you haven't named memories you
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haven't processed truths you haven't
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accepted so what's the way out first you
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have to pause
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that's the hard part not the apology
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after the damage not the cleanup the
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pause the moment where you feel the
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adrenaline surge the anger rise the heat
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in your chest and you don't say a word
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you breathe you recognize the feeling
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for what it is a signal not a command
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just because your emotions are loud
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doesn't mean they're right just because
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something feels true doesn't mean it is
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and in that space those few seconds of
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restraint you reclaim something
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incredibly valuable choice the ability
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to respond instead of react the ability
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to use your words constructively even
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when your emotions are screaming for
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destruction that's not weakness that's
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discipline that's strength at its most
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mature and the people who can do that
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consistently those are the ones who are
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trusted those are the ones who lead
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because they don't just control what
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they say they control why they say it
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now that doesn't mean you bury your
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emotions or pretend they're not there no
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you acknowledge them fully you face them
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with honesty but you don't give them the
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microphone until they've been filtered
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through clarity and intention that takes
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practice it takes emotional awareness
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and it takes a willingness to admit that
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some of the most damaging things you've
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ever said weren't about the other person
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they were about your own unresolved pain
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finding an escape route when you start
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doing this when you catch yourself in
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that moment between feeling and speaking
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you begin to notice patterns you see the
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same emotional themes repeating in
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different conversations different
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conflicts different relationships and
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instead of blaming everyone else for
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pushing your buttons you realize those
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buttons exist because you haven't
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rewired them you've been living
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reactively and now you get to live
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intentionally this is what growth looks
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like it's not about never getting
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triggered
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it's about recognizing your triggers and
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refusing to let them dictate your
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behavior it's about learning to sit with
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discomfort without unleashing it on the
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people around you and it's about
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honoring your values more than your
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feelings cuz your feelings come and go
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but your words stay your words leave
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footprints and you have to decide what
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kind of path you want those footprints
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to leave behind when you gain control
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over your emotional responses your words
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begin to carry a different weight not
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heavy with regret or hostility but
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strong with purpose they become
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instruments of clarity not chaos and in
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mastering those moments those quiet
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critical pauses you don't just change
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how you speak you change who you are
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becoming and that kind of transformation
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begins not with the right words but with
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the wisdom to know when not to say them
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there's a simple filter that if
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practiced consistently could transform
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not just your conversations but your
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character it's this is it true is it
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necessary is it kind most people speak
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without running their words through any
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filter at all they just say what they
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feel what they assume what they think
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will win the moment but power doesn't
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come from speaking freely power comes
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from speaking wisely truth is the first
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gate and that alone is difficult because
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it requires brutal honesty not just with
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others but with yourself you have to ask
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do I know this to be true or is this
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just what I believe because I'm upset or
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insecure or trying to protect my ego
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that's hard because truth has a cost
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sometimes it humbles you sometimes it
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forces you to admit you're wrong but if
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you can't speak from truth everything
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else collapses your words become noise
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opinions dressed up as facts and
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eventually people stop listening and
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rightly so because the world has enough
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misinformation enough half-truths enough
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emotionally charged commentary what it
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needs desperately is people who are
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courageous enough to tell the truth even
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when it's inconvenient but truth on its
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own isn't enough that's where a lot of
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people go wrong they confuse being blunt
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with being honest thinking that as long
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as it's true they're justified in saying
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it but that's only one piece of the
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equation after you ask if something's
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true you have to ask is it necessary
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because not everything that's true needs
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to be said not in every moment and not
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to every person timing matters intent
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matters sometimes silence is more
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helpful than unleashing a truth that's
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going to harm more than heal think about
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a moment when someone pointed out one of
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your flaws not to help you grow but just
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to put you down maybe they were
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technically right but their words didn't
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serve a purpose other than to elevate
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themselves or cut you down that's what
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truth without necessity looks like it's
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clumsy it's self- serving it might win
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the argument but it loses the
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relationship and if you're trying to
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build something meaningful in life trust
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connection respect you can't afford to
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speak that way now the third filter is
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it
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kind that's where the depth comes in
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because kindness is not weakness it's
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not coddling it's not saying nice things
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to avoid discomfort real kindness is
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fierce it's deliberate it's the kind of
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strength that doesn't need to dominate
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to be effective and when your words are
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both true and necessary kindness is what
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determines how those words land it's the
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difference between a scalpel and a
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sledgehammer both can cut but only one
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is precise enough to heal and kindness
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doesn't mean avoiding hard conversations
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sometimes the kindest thing you can do
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is say what no one else has the courage
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to say if you say it with with
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compassion if you say it with the other
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person's growth in mind because when
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people know that you care not just about
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being right but about being good your
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words gain influence they carry weight
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they're not just heard they're received
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but here's the catch this filter these
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three questions they only work if you
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slow down enough to use them and in a
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world that rewards speed reaction
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volume that's rare most people respond
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in milliseconds they're triggered they
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speak they're annoyed they unload
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there's no gap between feeling and
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speaking and without that gap there's no
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filter no reflection just raw emotion
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disguised as communication so you've got
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to learn to slow it down practice the
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pause let your emotions settle before
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you decide to speak and when you do ask
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yourself is what I'm about to say
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actually true does it need to be said
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right now and if so can I say it in a
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way that's respectful that reflects who
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I want to be because that's the deeper
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truth your words don't just reflect who
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you are in the moment they shape who you
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become every sentence you speak is a
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thread in the fabric of your character
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and over time those threads weave
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together a reputation a legacy a life so
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the question isn't just whether your
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words are right the question is are they
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building the kind of person you want to
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be speak truthfully speak when it
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matters speak with kindness even when
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it's hard because when you live by that
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standard your words stop being reactive
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they become intentional transformative
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anchored in strength not ego and in a
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world full of noise that kind of voice
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stands out not because it's the loudest
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but because it speaks with purpose when
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you discipline your speech you're not
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just managing your words you're shaping
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your identity every time you choose to
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speak thoughtfully instead of
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impulsively you affirm something deep
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within yourself i am someone who can be
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trusted even by
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me that's what self-respect really is
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it's not about inflating your ego or
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pretending to be perfect it's about
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being able to look yourself in the
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mirror and say "I handled that well i
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spoke with intention i didn't betray my
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values just because I was angry or
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afraid or looking for approval." See
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when your words are all over the place
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when you say whatever comes to mind
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whenever it comes to mind you begin to
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lose that sense of inner stability you
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feel chaotic inside because you've
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allowed your speech to be driven by
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emotion impulse insecurity and over time
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that chips away at your confidence
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because you know deep down that you're
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not in
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control that your mouth runs faster than
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your mind and sometimes even faster than
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your
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heart and that kind of person might
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impress others in the moment but they
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can't trust themselves to speak from a
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place of clarity but the moment you
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start putting structure around your
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speech when you begin to hold back words
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that don't serve a purpose when you
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speak even difficult truths with care
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when you choose to stay silent rather
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than escalate a conflict you begin to
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feel solid inside rooted you begin to
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carry yourself differently because you
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know that what you say actually means
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something and that creates dignity not
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the kind that demands respect from
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others but the kind that quietly
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commands it
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you don't build self-respect through
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grand gestures you build it in the small
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consistent decisions especially in the
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way you speak because your voice isn't
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just how you communicate with others
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it's how you shape the world around you
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and when your words are disciplined your
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life begins to follow what you say
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becomes who you are and who you are
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becomes someone you're proud to be so
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when you really step back and consider
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the weight of it all your words your
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tone your timing you start to see that
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speech isn't just a tool it's a
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responsibility it's a reflection of your
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inner world your maturity your values
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and if you want to live a life of
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meaning of real depth you cannot afford
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to treat that responsibility lightly
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because every word you speak is either
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adding to the chaos or helping to bring
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order it's either tearing down what
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matters or helping to build something
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that lasts when you learn to control
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what you say you're not just protecting
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others you're protecting yourself your
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integrity your future your peace the
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world is full of noise but you you can
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choose to be different you can choose to
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be precise purposeful grounded you can
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choose words that build that heal that
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carry truth without cruelty and
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conviction without arrogance and when
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you do something remarkable happens
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people listen they trust you and more
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importantly you begin to trust yourself
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so speak less carelessly speak more
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deliberately let silence serve you when
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it should let truth guide you when it's
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needed and let kindness lead always
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because the discipline of your speech is
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not the end of growth it's the beginning
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of becoming someone worth listening
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to and in a world starving for
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wisdom your
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voice used
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well might just be the