Meaningful Mondays

2 minutes of gratitude per day is a spark that can eliminate the darkness. The answer to this crisis is to get back to the virtues of good character in every part of this great nation. It starts with you!

"The very act of making choices of who you want to become requires setting aside, other choices you might have made. You do it willingly because the greater goal is worth the greater sacrifice." - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

When we pay attention to the shameless purveyors of negativity and fear (i.e.) the politicians, etc., then we amplify the negative. And, while the media tries to focus us on what is wrong to get our attention, how can we focus on what is right and good?

Want to simplify your financial life? Check out these great quotes from Warren Buffet. My favorite? "Never test the water with both feet."

"Civility does not...mean the outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good." -- Mahatma Gandi Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant." -- Gordon B. Hinckley "Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will, adjust your lives, not the standards." -- Ted Koppel

Kindness is as much about the future as it is the "now". "Anyone who says customers are #1 has lost their mind. Employees are #1. Employees are the source of all value creation." - Keith Cunningham (The Road Less Stupid).

Values versus Principles. Agreed upon principles make better decision-makers.

"The most important thing in the world is family and love." - John Wooden “Some of our most important choices concern family activities. There is no easy formula for that contest of priorities. However, I have never known of a man who looked back on his working life and said, “I just didn’t spend enough time with my job.” - Dallin H. Oaks

Why I am really tired... Choices and Consequences.

The enemy of thriving is... "What"? Don't let your choices ambush your decisions. Watch Video for an explanation to this: - Stay at "attention" by creating "tension"... and then celebrate it.

Make 2020 Unforgettable... If you wait until you are not scared to try new things, then you will never get to try them at all. You can never know what your are fully made of, until you start to do the things you fear most. Happiness is not something that you can pursue. Happiness is something that ensues, when you make the most out of every moment.

Four questions that just might make 2020 unforgettable! What makes this year (2019) unforgettable? What surprised you the most this year? What FIRST(s) did you have this year? What are you not going to bring with you into 2020?

"The same God that placed that star in a precise orbit millennia before it appeared over Bethlehem... has given at least equal attention to the placement of each of us in precise human orbits so that we may, if we will, not only lead others but warm them as well." - Neal A. Maxwell

"You don't get what you want in life, you get in life what you are.”

“We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us." - Charles De Lint

What will you do to ensure the best decade of your life? My S.P.I.C.E. Fit

Would you be willing to take the Gratitude Challenge? “Gratitude is the greatest of virtues and the parent of all the others.” - Cicero

...It's deciding how you will go about achieving them. It is all about the journey- not the destination. “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” ― Abraham Lincoln“ "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.” ---Yogi Berra

“This is not happening TO me. It’s…” – Sean Stephenson “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line that we fail to enjoy and learn from the journey.” – Lee M Brower

You fall to your lowest level of preparation.