So many college students try their best to look decent when they go to class. We focus on our hair and our clothes and if our backpacks match our shoes. OK, so we don’t do that last one. But we do spend a lot of time trying to look presentable so that our fellow college peers think we have it somewhat together, at least until finals. What if I told you lovely people that there is an easier way to make yourself attractive?

Remember how our parents told us that beauty comes from within? We are more than just our pretty faces? It turns out our parents were right. Beauty and attractiveness develop from within and spew out through our actions and our mouths. Wait. What we say can make us beautiful? Crazy stuff, huh?

I made a promise to myself to grow closer to God in this new year. I was beyond done with being the one at the bottom not getting the great things in life. I was done with stressing about what could go wrong and creating fake miserable scenarios in my head. With this promise, I began attending Sunday services regularly and this past service brought me to a realization that words can define your path.

By choosing the correct words, we can change situations that could make our lives so much better than they would have been had we chosen to say something different. We become beautiful people by using beautiful words when we speak to family, friends, or even those we don’t really like. If we begin to change negative words into positive ones, we begin living a beautiful life.

So how does saying positive things make you more attractive? Have you ever seen those really happy people who have tons of friends and people just want to be around them? The reason this happens if because that person says some pretty awesome things. They let love and wonder spew out and they attract other people. Don’t be a Negative Nancy and repel.

In college, we go through stressful and scary situations. We endure weeks of torturous Chemistry classes and heartbreak over the girl or boy who ignored our flirts in Lit. We whine and whine and whine because we have to work the night of a fraternity party. If you see yourself speaking ugly words and getting nowhere happy fast, do one simple thing: pray over your words and grow in God.

Two great pastors passed on their wisdom to me and said that if we just pray over our words, we will begin saying lovely things and will become better versions of ourselves. It really is that easy. You don’t even have to have a gym membership or buy a new hair product. So, if you’re tired of putting on makeup to feel beautiful, change the way you speak. Start smiling and people will catch on. Once you make your heart and your words beautiful, you will become a more attractive person.