The Messages You Send

There are a lot of messages that get tossed at you daily, from anything and everything.

Little messages each day can slowly create the way you see yourself both in a positive or a negative light. The messages you internalize are not always conscious or noticed. You absorb them. Then you begin to live them out.

Some of you probably can’t remember when you started to act on those messages or when they started to become a part of you. They were just there, added to the back of your mind.

Every so often it is a good practice in self-awareness to take an inventory, to assess your emotional state, your motivates, motivations, actions, desires, character to discover what you have internalized that is positive and what you can eliminate that is negative.

You can’t always control what messages you hear, but there is something you can do. You can think of the messages you send out. You can help others to absorb and internalize positive messages!

What messages are other people hearing from you?

It might take a bit to know how to answer that, and that’s okay. You might not even answer it right now or today. As you head into the weekend, keep that question with you.

Then as you reflect on the messages you send, think about what you want to come to mind when people think of you. Consider the impression you leave with someone either online or in person. For me, I want people to know that I care deeply about them. I want them to walk away knowing this: you matter, you are valuable, and you are good enough. I have to ask myself, am I sharing that message or not.

This process of self-reflection doesn’t have to be complicated. You don’t have to make big changes overnight. Simply try to think of small ways you can add to other people’s lives by the way you talk to them. If you are like me, you won’t get this right as often as you want to, but one small act of kindness can make a big difference in someone else’s life.