The thoughts which permeate our being throughout the day drive our destiny. The phrase, “Another day, another dollar and we holler,” indicates we are working hard to earn a small amount of money. In the streets and hallways of offices throughout the world this and similar phrases are uttered thousands of times per day as people ask, “How was your day?”  Though, "Another day, another dollar and we holler," sounds nice and rhymes wonderfully, the subliminal message it sends is devastating.

“Hollering” in joy or in pain each time we make another dollar isn’t particularly inspiring unless we happen to be a professional yodeler! While earning a living is not always easy, neither should it be so difficult. Millions of people survive daily. They are involved in a wide array of different economic activities and few die as a direct result. It is true and unfortunate many do die of hunger; they, however, are not normally the people who are working and “hollering” as they make another dollar.

Working all day for a dollar or for one unit of any currency in the world isn’t very encouraging! If we are going to work hard all day long, we should be better paid!

“It’s just a saying,” you may be thinking. While it is just a saying, as with so many other “small” things in life, in the long run these thoughts have a huge impact on our destiny. A dripping faucet doesn’t cause much damage in a matter of minutes; over the course of an entire day, it can flood a house and be extremely destructive.

Similarly, the words we use and think about daily create our reality. Deciding to face a “challenge” is much different from suffering through a “problem.” Giving something “our best shot” is not the same as “trying” to do a good job. Saying our spouse is a wonderful person “but” has many problems isn’t even close to saying our spouse is a wonderful person “and” can improve every day in every way.

A Chinese proverb tells us, “Words are the keys to the heart.” It is the small things we say and do in life which make a tremendous difference leading us to all our heart desires. Our path is frequently the result of incidents which at the time seem relatively insignificant. When we feed our mind with powerful words which create the world we want, we achieve what others only dream about.