Be Impeccable With Your Word
Updated: Oct 24
Be Impeccable with Your Word | Lifeonomics Week 14
Last week we stopped making Assumptions. This week we look at the words we plant in living ground — including our own.
Be impeccable with your word. That is the first of Ruiz’s agreements, and it goes hand-in-hand with Honor and the Triple 'C' Challenge.
The teaching
The human mind is fertile ground. Words are seeds. Once they hook attention, they can change a whole belief — for better or worse.
My mother was five-foot-two and loved by almost everyone she met. She never set out to hurt me. She did say, as if she were apologizing for a fact of nature: Robby, I’m so sorry. Your skinny little brother took after your daddy, but it looks like you’re going to take after me.
She used the word she used on herself. I took it in. Decades later, after thousands of miles on a bike, a part of me can still see the chubby kid on the playground. That is what a seed can do. Even a LIFE coach carries one.
So the assignment is not manners. It is agriculture. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Do not use the word against yourself. Do not gossip. Point the power toward truth and love.
How to begin
Listen for the sentence you repeat about yourself. Write it down.
Stop one sentence this week that speaks against you or against someone who is not in the room.
Replace it with something you actually mean — true, and aimed at love.
This Week’s Life Challenge
Be impeccable with your word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Do not use the word against yourself or to gossip about others. Aim it toward truth and love.
Seeds do not care if you were joking
You can decide to speak clean. You still need a place to notice the old sentence when it shows up at 10 p.m.
The app is a quiet field — a check-in, a short practice, a chance to plant something else before the day ends.
Truth and love. Thirty days. No credit card for the trial. Come practice.
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