Meaningful Mondays

"The world today is so full of information which tries to not only inform, but sometimes to misinform us. Just as the capacity to defer gratification is a sign of real maturity, likewise is the willingness to wait for deferred explanation is the sign of real faith and trust." - Neal A. Maxwell

"Never postpone or ignore a virtuous prompting." Thomas S. Monson

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." - Henry Ford "I have no idea when I might graduate to the next life. All I know is that when I do, go, I don't want it to be my fault" - Lee Brower

"A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can't go anyplace until you change it." Problem or Solution... your choice.

What does your wrinkly brain have to do with your future? "The brain is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe."  - James D Watson

"Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing." ...Tony Blair "Knowing the right thing is not the problem. Doing the right thing, that is the challenge." ... LMB

What can In-N-Out Burgers teach you about character? "Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike." Theodore Roosevelt "America is great because she is good, but if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." Alexis de Toqueville (1835)

What consumes your mind controls your life. "NEGASITES" a term used by Dan Sullivan "Wise men speak because they have something to say. Fools speak because they have to say something."    - Plato

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

To get good at dealing with negative experiences is to get good at dealing with life.

Has modern society (a very reactive society) really extinguished the creative spark among our youth?

Opportunities are like sunsets- wait too long and you will miss them. We were slowly drowning under the words we weren't saying.

You only have to lift the anchor an inch to get into motion.

Live beyond “What if”… and find joy in “What is”. “Storms make a tree’s roots grow even stronger.” Nick’s favorite quote given to him by the girls from Strategic Coach, Toronto.

Three scientific solutions that will turn spiraling downward into springing upward.

  More Room Create “More Room” in your life… “Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth itself demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people get stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all their talents and abilities should afford them.”  Dr. Henry Cloud, Necessary Endings

Trust what you do and your influence will be even greater. Freedom.... it is ours to lose. Protect it and celebrate it.

Happy Meaningful Monday from Amsterdam! “Comparison is the thief of joy.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Do you remember the 9-word question that will change the way you experience life? Reactive people make gratitude a feeling. Proactive people make gratitude a verb. True gratitude is something you do: the sacrifices you make, the giving of self...

"What matters most is what last the longest." - Russell M. Ballard