A penny for your thoughts. Don’t do a job unless you do it well. Nobody puts baby in a corner. You don’t pour my cereal. Don’t get your hopes up. Two all beef patties… The expressions, jingles, comments from our life can occasionally roll through our thoughts. Sometimes we don’t even realize they are words we might never have spoken.

Sometimes, these unspoken words can have more power than those we say out loud. I realized how much power one day when I was on a ladder, painting a window frame. I was alone and imagining a conversation where a person was apologizing to me for their bad behavior. With a shrug of my shoulders I thought, ‘well, a day late and a dollar short’. It was a dismissive, leaving no room for forgiveness or understanding.

Ouch. Is that the person I want to be? The story in my head, your head, doesn’t have to become a broken record.