Meaningful Mondays

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

You know you've done your best when your opponent cannot tell by looking at you after the game whether you won or lost.

Empowered Freedom... We can choose our choices. Can we choose our consequences? What never sleeps nor sickens nor dies? Yet works every day with no love nor sympathy?

"Use your values as a gift, not a weapon."  - Arthur C. Brooks "Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt." Is there a difference between being disagreeing and being disagreeable?

"I am not what I want to be; not what I am going to be; but, I am grateful I am not what I used to be." - John Wooden "Legacy is to be lived, not left." - Lee Brower

Is there a relationship between Gratitude and Trust? “The ultimate act of leadership is to extend trust.” – Stephen M. R. Covey Like gratitude, trust blesses twice- both he that receives it and he that gives it.

What is that word?... And, can one word really make a difference?

"All limitations are self-imposed."  - Icarus "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours."  - Richard Bach

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” ― Alphonse Karr“ I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.” ― Og Mandino “In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.” ― Bertrand Russell

"Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow." - Melody Beattie