The First Sentence Wins. Wordload Built the Script

Can We Outrun the First Sentence?

Whether you think you can or think you can’t—you’re  right.”

Said by a man with multiple bankruptcies.
Anti-union.
Anti-innovation.
Deeply complicated.

Even destructive.
He was awarded the highest Nazi decoration for foreigners.
He was the only American mentioned by name in Mein Kampf.

He was the perfector of American mass production.
He invented the Model T.

Henry Ford.
A man with many scripts.

Regardless of what you think about him...

He was right.
And that should bother you.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Words layer, creating Wordload.

• We can’t outperform the first thing we tell ourselves.

• We don’t need to add more words. We need to use ours better.

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We don’t outperform the first sentence.
We prove it.

Most of the time?
Our first thought isn’t even true.

To make it worse?
We didn’t even choose it.

Our Wordload made the decision for us.

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What Is Wordload?

Wordload is the accumulation of unchecked words we inherit, learn, and are told.
Then  repeat to ourselves and others.

It’s the force shaping  our decisions, behaviors, performance, and relationships.
It’s  the weight deciding outcomes.

Before we even start.

It isn’t about our positive thinking, mindset, or motivation.
Those come too late.
So do habits and systems.

Oftentimes they add friction.
“I should be better than this.”

Looped.
Adding Wordload.

It starts with our words.

From the time we begin to understand “good” and “bad,” we begin attaching labels.

They turn into scripts, pre-conceived notions, positive and negative thought loops.

Influenced by

·       Events and experience.

·       Culture and peer pressures.

·       Environment and digital noise.

They get embedded, hardening into our identity.
Then get passed to others.

Without being examined.

Actions don’t speak loudly.
Words were already deciding.

“Golden child…”
“The responsible one…”

“You’ve always been…”
“You’re just like…”

“The world is out to…”
“No one’s coming to…”

Scripts that we live up to.
Or down to.

And most of the time…
We didn’t even realize they were playing.

We didn’t know

Taking our voice.
Deciding our actions.

Stealing our peace.

Until we begin to examine them.
RE| provides the tools to RE|vive and RE|store our voice.

Our identity.

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RE|author Potential and Momentum

RE| allows us to take the pen back.

We don’t need to add more words.
We already have them.
They’re used daily.

We just need to use them better.

And it starts with letters.

The smallest unit of the alphabet.
Intersecting with the smallest controllable unit of our thoughts.

Words.

The R and E when put together give us permission to pause and create.
RE is a prefix that only attaches to verbs.
And it’s a suffix that allows us to become more.

To be bett|er.

RE| allows us to recognize whether “we can…”
Or “we can’t…”

And in that pause.
We find out if the sentence was ever true.

My name is G. Scott, and I write about the power…and burden of the words shaping people, organizations, and outcomes. I’ve served over thirty years in the corporate environment scaling operations and sales initiatives and teams regionally and nationally.

I have been blessed with my wonderful wife Alyson, three great kids and my first granddaughter.

The most important part of my work? You.  I hope you share your story!
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