ENTHUSIASM IS CONTAGIOUS

"Enthusiasm Is Contagious!!
Here are some thoughts on how Mere Words Can Change A Life:
 "Words have the power to destroy or heal. When words are true and kind, they can change the world.”
—Buddha (Siddhārtha Gautama)
(ca. 6th century B.C.E.) Founder of Buddhism
          “How powerful are words? Can words, spoken or read, reallychange someone’s life? Can words have a lasting effect, or are they lostin a split second?
It dawned on me one day that I could possibly change someone’s
life with mere words, either spoken or written. In fact, we all can! How powerful is that? With the pen I am holding at this moment and any scrap of paper I might write on, my words could have an immense effect on someone’s life. Words that are read are a very powerful means of communication. My thoughts written down can translate into positive thought impulses in the mind of another person. These thought impulses can then propel that person forward into some sort of action, or changetheir present direction.
               “Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.”
                   —Pearl Strachan Hurd, Mid- to late 20th century poet
“Words spoken have started wars, have initiated truces, have begun many a fight, and have been the cause of many murders. Words have broken up many relationships and have started other ones. Words. Mere words. A supreme example of the power of words is the Bible.
Words can inspire many a reader. Words also can motivate a writer to write thousands of words himself—perhaps even in just one sitting. I have been influenced by certain word-related subjects to the point that I could not stop writing, while at other times I had writer’s-block. I have read the words of the greatest motivators, such as Og Mandino in his great self-help book, The Greatest Salesman in the World. And I have been motivated to great action for many years after reading W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill and their masterpiece self-help work, Success
through a Positive Mental Attitude.
At a seminar in 1977, I met a great motivator and Olympic
champion, Bob Richards. He was giving a motivational speech to all the agents of a life insurance company I had begun working for. I was only twenty-one and was struggling to make sales. After his speech, Richards took a few minutes to talk with me. He told me to go out and buy a copy of Success through a Positive Mental Attitude.
Well, the rest is history. I devoured that book, as well as other
motivational books and tapes, and it changed my life forever.
Words spoken can change someone’s life. Now, thirty-five years
later, I am still in the life insurance business, I am running my own
successful agency, and I am still practicing self-help techniques. So now I feel compelled to give back to society. I want to change the lives of young and old alike and to help people in foreign countries. I have had my first self-help book, The Power of Being Different, translated and published worldwide. There’s no greater feeling than when someone tells you that the self-help book you wrote changed his life for the better.
We each have the power to motivate through the written word,
the spoken word, and even mere acts of kindness. So try it out today.
See if you can make someone’s life better than before. Try to motivate someone to greatness. Make it one of your new goals. Watch how your enthusiasm becomes contagious.”
      “I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young.”
—Gaston Bachelard (1884-1962), Poet, philosopher
             C- John Paul Carinci 2011