Meaningful Mondays

"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.

"...One of the central elements of the word charACTer is A, C, T.  How one acts reveals in a powerful way his or her true character." 

“Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant." - Gordon B. Hinckley "Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect." - Richard John Neuhaus

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue..." - Victor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning."

What holds the "We" in your family and/or Business? - A Common Vision... of what your trying to achieve and how your going to achieve it.

"Life is about the journey- not the destination. Live the journey right and the destination takes care of itself." - Lee Brower

“Instead of life dictating its terms, you are choosing what is remembered, what matters, and what will be attainable to future generations.” - The Brower Quadrant, pg. 55 "Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity… Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." —Melodie Beattie

"The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leaders are willing to tolerate." - Gruenter & Whitaker Compete: To work alongside; to strive together.