Meaningful Mondays

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.

"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.