Today’s Mandala Message: Let Our Actions Match Our Words
This week I’m working through Principles #50 and #51 from Jack Canfield’s “The Success Principles” entitled “Tell the Truth Faster” and “Speak with Impeccability”. I set my intention today to ponder whether I say what I mean and mean what I say. From an article posted by Cat Thompson on ExperienceLife.Lifetime.Life about integrity, Thompson states: “One of the first places integrity issues show up is in our language patterns. When we are “in integrity,” we speak from a place of wholeness. Our words match our actions. As Dr. Seuss put it, “We say what we mean and we mean what we say.” When we break from this pattern and say things we don’t really mean, we move “out of integrity.””
From Dr. Dennis Merritt Jones on ParadiseNewsFl about speaking with integrity, he states: “Before we speak, or hit the forward and send button, it would do us well to pause and become witness to our thoughts before they become our words. I invite you to join me in using the power of your word in an intentional and conscious manner. Not just because speaking with integrity is the right thing to do, but because the world needs and deserves the absolute highest and best that we can bring to it. What we think and say matters, so being impeccable with our word seems like a great place to start.”
My favorite part of what Jones said was “the world needs and deserves the absolute highest and best that we can bring to it.” Yes! It reminds me to always strive to do my best…especially with my Mandalas of the Day.
A good mindfulness practice would be to notice if our words match our actions.
So how about you? Do you mean what you say and say what you mean? Do your actions match your words? Do your words match your actions?
“Excellence
— Rick Pitino
is the unlimited ability
to improve the quality
of what you have to offer.”
Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
All Things Mandalas
An Invitation
I invite you to color along with me this year as part of what I’m calling “The Year of Self-Exploration and Expansion” with all of my “Mandalas of the ___” (day, week, month, year). If you’re interested in more of a self-exploration approach to coloring, check out my “Coloring Mandalas as Meditation”. You can download this mandala at MandalaoftheWeek.com.
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