Your words matter

I don't feel like doing this today…

If they would listen, I would speak…

I tried everything, it won't work…

You have to accept reality!!!

Yesterday, I led an introduction to one of our programs. In it we looked at the distinction of reaction vs creation.

Everytime I do this work it becomes clear to me that most people speak as a reaction. They speak as a description. They think they describe the world, that is, not a world they came up with.

Yet our world is totally subjective to us, no matter how much we want to pretend that we are now very scientific and have this thing called an objective world out there. We don't. We live in our own universe, and what we say about it, shapes it to a degree that we are mostly ignorant of.

When I say "I have tried everything," I close my mind to looking further. When I say a thing is so, I close my mind to look any further. When I say the world is dangerous, from that moment on, this is how the world appears to me. You might argue that you have evidence for it, that you can point to things out there that confirm your view, yet why is it that some people live in a world of possibility, a world of love, a world of fun and adventure, while others (on the same planet) live in a world of fear?

If out there would tell us how things are, wouldn't we all see the same world?

Did Gandhi see the same world you see?

What did he say about life?

“Where there is love, there is life.”― Mahatma Gandhi

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”― Mahatma Gandhi

“Your beliefs become your thoughts,Your thoughts become your words,Your words become your actions,Your actions become your habits,Your habits become your values,Your values become your destiny.”― Gandhi

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”― Mahatma Gandhi

Is it the same you say?

We often focus on the results and the outcome. We see someone being loving, wise, clear, and we assume that this is a function of anatomy, their genes, their brain, yet we seldom see it as a function of their focus, their focus on what they say, belive and see.

One of the things that always strikes me in my working with my mentor Ria is how she just does not focus on any thought that is judgemental, diminishing, reducing to her being.

It makes her highly effective, present and loving. Why? Because she has no opposing conversation going.

"Language is the house of being," Martin Heidegger.

It is in language that the world occurs for us, and it is in speaking that we pull the past in the present and recreate its effects. We say, "Because I have failed once, I will fail again," and as we say so, we create it to be so for us.

We say, "I just don't know how to lead," and so it is that way for us.

What we say is not a description of the world; it is a creation of it.

And you can stay in the belief that it is not so, and experience the consequences, or you can say that it is so and experience these consequences.

In one, you create; in the other, the world out there determines what's so when in reality it was always over you.

Being a conscious creator, someone who masters the art of leadership of self and others, is what we focus on in our 1-year-long education, "Mastering the Art of Leadership and Self-expression," Which will start on the 20th of March 2026. It is aimed at entrepreneurs, leaders, coaches, and consultants who want to expand their ability to make a difference and create what they are up to in the world.

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Warmly,

Moritz

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