Meaningful Mondays

Try replacing "I'm sorry" with ... "Thank YOU!" When you start to communicate appreciation you will improve confidence in yourself and gratitude in others. They, then, are inspired to repeat the good qualities you acknowledge.

Can you instill these motivators in your team? How about in your family? "Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled. They are four-dimensional: body, mind, heart, and spirit." --Stephen Covey "You don't build a business, you build people, then people build the business." --Zig Ziglar

"Never in the field of conflict was so much owed by so many for so few." - Winston Churchill "It's better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing." - Gen. George S. Patton

Dark is not the opposite of light. It is just the absence of light. Be the light. "We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light." - Earl Nightengale.

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots." - Albert Einstein As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it is only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference." - John McCain

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world." - Emmett Fox "Don't insist on remembering things that the Lord is willing to forget." - Hugh B. Brown Thank you to Rand McCullough, Realtor.

Leaders are the people who elevate, motivate, inspire, and drive things forward, regardless of where they find themselves. "Silent gratitude isn't of much use to anyone." - Gertrude Stein "Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise." - Sam Walton

"The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives, but more to do with the focus of our lives." - Russell M. Nelson

Before our kids (we) EXPRESS appreciation, they (we) should EXPERIENCE appreciation. It's like sprinkling the leaves of a plant when what's needed is to water the roots. The intention is to guide them (and us) from recognizing kindness to valuing kindness. A x A x A = AG Awareness x Appreciation x Acknowledgement = Authentic Gratitude

"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less." - CS Lewis

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light... that most frightens us... You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world... We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And, as we let our light shine, we unconsciously give permission for other people to do the same."  - Marianne Williamson

“Our priorities are most visible in how we use our time. Someone has said, “Three things never come back—the spent arrow, the spoken word, and the lost opportunity.” "We cannot recycle or save the time allotted to us each day. With time, we have only one opportunity for choice, and then it is gone forever.” - Dallin H. Oaks

"The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp to your comfort zone." - Karen Salmonson "A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there." - John Assaraf

Everyone should have an M.B.A. Can you guess what M.B.A. stands for? M__ B_____ A_______ "You could spend your life serving others or you could spend it on yourself."  - Coach John Wooden

Want more time to finish your To-Do List? Make a Don't Do List. Can saying "No" really help me to say "Yes"?

"A leader's lasting value is measured by succession."  - John C. Maxwell "Success is Succession" "We take responsibility to create legacies of leadership that will take those that follow to levels of "Sustainable Prosperity®" previously unimagined." - Lee M Brower

"A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation, you begin with families." - Gordon B. Hinckley "Political polarization is interfering with the fuel of happiness, which is love." - Arthur C. Brooks "A family doesn't have to be perfect; it just needs to be united." "If you want to change the world, go home and love your family." - Mother Teresa

An attitude of gratitude shifts our focus from what we lack or strive for to what we already have. "At the crux of ingratitude is ego. Ingratitude turns us inward, inviting us to focus only on ourselves and our own needs. It leads us to feel entitled and to resent when at some point or other the world fails to meet one of our expectations. And it causes us to be blind to those who helped us achieve our successes." - Arbinger Institute

Two words that open the door to deliberate gratitude. "Deliberate gratitude when practiced becomes a light that unconsciously illuminates others, giving them the courage to do the same."

Don't be a moth... Why do people huddle around streetlights rather than looking where they might be able to find the truth? How much time is spent huddling around the streetlight of bitterness and blame rather than where the truth is more likely to be? "It's difficult to look for what's working when it's so much easier to look for what is not working." "What is your Streetlight?"