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Introduction
GRACIOUS WORDS
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Goal:
Introduction
How many of you have ever filled out a job application?
Whenever you are filling out a job application, it is crucial to make sure you use the right words.
Consider these words from actually job applications.
(found from various sources)
Consider these wors from actually job application A selection:
Education: “I have a bachelorette degree in computers.”
“Career break in 1999 to renovate my horse”
“Please let me know if I can omit you in any way”
Career: “I have worked with restraints for the past two years.”
“Please let me know if I can omit you in any way”
“Married, eight children.
Prefer frequent travel”
“It’s best for employers that I not work with people.”
“I am fully aware of the king of attention this position requires.”
“Career break in 1999 to renovate my horse”
“Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.”
Achievements “Received a plague for Salesperson of the Year.”
“Child care provider: Organized activities; prepared lunches and snakes.”
Experience “Child care provider: Organized activities; prepared lunches and snakes.”
“It’s best for employers that I not work with people.”
“It’s best for employers that I not work with people.”
“It’s best for employers that I not work with people.”
Words are powerful.
Words can build up; words can destroy.
Words start wars, but words can also bring peace.
Words can draw people in; words can push people away.
The difference in what words will do is the kind of word used.
The right word is like honey, sweet and pleasant.
The wrong word is like vinegar, sour and distasteful.
Just how powerful are words you?
If you have a smartphone, it probably has predictive text.
Where based on a few letters your smartphone can guess—with often amazing accuracy—your next word.
Just the other day, I was proofing a church announcement and it read “If you are brining someone from the Pensacola community, be sure...” Yes, a warm salt water bath is a great way to softening up your guest for a church event.
Many of us have felt the power of a hurtful word and probably all of us have even said a hurtful word to someone else.
“Dumb.
Stupid.
Idiot.
Jerk.”
These words stir up hurtful feelings, none of which are desirable.
Let me ask you this: If someone paid you $5 for every kind word you said about people, and collected $1 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
Think of it this way — If someone paid you $5 for every kind word you said about people, and collected $1 for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?
Many of us have felt the power of a hurtful word and probably all of us have even said a hurtful word to someone else.
These words stir up hurtful feelings, none of which are desirable.
You are so dumb.
You're no good!
You're stupid!
You will never make it!
Many of us have felt the power of a hurtful word and probably all of us have even said a hurtful word to someone else.
“Dumb.
Stupid.
Idiot.
Jerk.”
These words stir up hurtful feelings, none of which are desirable.
Dumb.
Stupid.
Idiot.
Jerk.
You are so dumb.
You're no good!
You're stupid!
You will never make it!
That was so dumb.
You're no good!
You're lazy!
You're stupid!
You will never make it!
What is wrong with you!
Your too old!
No one wants you!
No one likes you!
You can't do it!
You're ugly!
Get away from me.
You're fat!
What kind of Christian are you!
Give up!
What is wrong with you!
No one wants you!
No one likes you!
You can't do it!
You're ugly!
You're fat!
Get away from me.
What kind of Christian are you!
Give up!
These words stir up hurtful feelings, none of which are desirable.
If you have a smartphone, it probably has predictive text.
Where based on a few letters your smartphone can guess—with often amazing accuracy—your next word.
Words can build up; words can destroy.
Words can draw people in; words can push people away.
The right word is like honey, sweet and pleasant.
The wrong word is like vinegar, sour and distasteful.
Let me ask you this—now don’t raise your hand: could you go 24 hours without saying any unkind words about, or to, another person?
If you can’t answer 'yes' must recognize that you have a serious problem.
If you can't go 24 hours without drinking liquor, you're addicted to alcohol.
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