While I’m doing work on the computer, I have an instant messaging application running in the background. Sometimes I check to see who’s online, and inevitably a few taglines catch my eye.
You might think that this is a small thing, but your tagline has a greater effect on people than perhaps you realize. How often do you hastily write something in a mood of disgust or compaint, then sit down at your computer and continue to do your work as the sun shines warmly upon your world and the butterflies flutter around your house oblivious to the continual ripple effects wrought by a posted, “I want to kill him! Men are pigs; trust no one!”
Lovely start to the day.
Just as easily, your little tagline can accidentally on purpose uplift the others’ day with the same amount of thought and effort. Or less, if you use fewer exclamation points.
One of my contacts always has an encouraging tagline, a reflection of his constructive nature. Reading first thing in the morning, “Everything in my life happens for a reason. I am that reason,” resonates with an attitude of responsibility and positive expectation that I welcome into my day.
No matter the words or gesture, or how clichéd, if the tone behind those words is a positive one intending self-awareness, then likewise the message has a positive and long-reaching effect. I like how that works.
Work it.
(Thank you.)
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