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Words have power. Huge power. With a word you can crush someone or give them wings – which will you do today?

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Yesterday, out of the blue, someone said something to me which lifted me up and made some of the things I’ve been doing so worth the time, money and effort.

It was a tweet actually and it simply said,

If you are speaking, I want to be there! Learned much from you at #TypeACon

Now, I’m not going to blow my own trumpet or anything but the fact is, I spent a lot of money and put a lot of time and energy into going to Asheville this year to speak at the Type A Parent Conference but even just for that one comment, it was all worth it.

I went because I want to help people and so hearing that I had succeeded in doing that gave me a bounce in my step and a smile on my face.

Yet it was such a simple thing – and so easy for that person to do.

A while ago I wrote about one thing I learned from one of my hero’s when he started playing Words With Friends against me.

If you’ve read that post, you may recall that I was trying to get that person to play against me and managed to do so by tweeting that playing against him was the only thing on my bucket list.

One of the other things I learned from him at that time was exactly how easy it is to make someone’s day and how much power we hold to be able to do so.

It truly made my day to play against him but it was such a simple thing and didn’t take him any real time or effort. He was playing anyway so why not play against me?

That’s the beauty of this power we hold. We can make people fly by the simplest little things. It doesn’t take a lot of work or effort or money, it can just take a word or a smile or a wave.

I remember when I was at school (many years ago) there was always one girl or another that I had a crush on and if the object of my affections happened to smile in my general direction on any given day, that day or even that whole week would go from boring to amazing.

It’s that easy.

Something as simple as looking the barista in the coffee shop in the eye and sincerely saying, “Thank you” could be the difference between a terrible shift and a great day at work for her (or him) and yet it costs you nothing in terms of time or money.

We are walking around all the time with this power hidden inside us  - the power to make someone fly and we could be using it tens, hundreds even thousands of times a day.

Imagine what the world would be like if we all helped each other walk every day on cloud nine?

Shall we give it a try?

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

Ephesians 4:29