Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

Remember the Key - Story Thinking

“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
— John Dewey

"Naming a moment radically improves the flow of wisdom across generations."
— Lee Brower

"A moment named is a moment that never stops living."
— Lee Brower

"Your most valuable assets have never appeared on a balance sheet."
— Lee Brower

Two Things My Son Had on His Phone

"Go B.I.G. Begin In Gratitude. Not because life is easy, but because life is the gift."
— Lee Brower

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
— Marcus Aurelius

"Memento Mori"
"Amor Fati"

The Porch Moment - How your Family's Stories Shape your Children's Self-esteem and Resilience

Dr. Marshall Duke, Emory University psychologist, found that adolescents who knew their family's stories — especially stories of resilience and moral choice — showed significantly greater self-esteem and lower anxiety. Science is validating what Larry's family proved in one conversation.

"An experience becomes Enduring Wealth only when it is shared — and unnamed, unshared assets die with you."
— Lee Brower

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
— Pericles

Are You Committed to the Next Moment

Take it to the Limit, one more time.

We don't build a meaningful life in the big moments. We build it in the quiet, often unseen choices to go "one more time"... when it would be easier not to.

"One more time..." is not about a destination.

There's no finish line. It's a commitment to the next moment."

It's about doing your best again -- not because the circumstances are easy, but because you've been given one more day.

A grateful heart doesn't ask, "When will it get easier?" It asks: "Since I've been given one more day -- who can I bless one more time?

The Brain You're Building

The Brain You're Building

Are some of our most prominent leaders unknowingly diminishing the very capacities we most need from them?

"You don't have to wait for the rainbow to enjoy the rain."
-- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Gratitude doesn't deny the storm; it changes the mind we bring into the storm."
-- Lee Brower

This week's RIPPLE: "Knowing what you know now, if you had the chance (or opportunity) to do this over, what might you do differently to make it even better?"*

Twenty Dollar Bill Moment

“Legacy isn’t built in the moments when it’s easy. It’s built in the moments when you’re the only one in the room who still believes.”
 —  Lee Brower

“Courage always looks desperate until it works.”
— Lee Brower

“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“It’s easy to stand in a crowd. It takes courage to stand alone.”
— Mahatma Ghandi

“You don’t need permission from the majority to do what’s right. You just need the courage to go first.”
— Lee Brower

The Most Dangerous Word

The Most Dangerous Word...

"If you don't choose your focus, something else will."

"We rarely lose what matters through crisis -- we lose it through drift."

"Drift happens by default. Meaningfulness happens by design."

NIX one drift so you can proactively focus your FIX on what matters most.

Before You Go Down the Hill

"A lesson unnamed is a lesson unclaimed."
— Lee Brower

"The hill isn't the danger. Going down it without looking is."
— Lee Brower

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
— Henry Ford

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”
— Albert Einstein

“We do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience.”
— John Dewey

From Me to We at 30,000 Feet

Cognitive Empathy is understanding what someone else is thinking.

Emotional Empathy is feeling what someone else is feeling.

Compassionate Empathy is taking action to help. It moves from: "I understand." to "I care." to "What can I do?" That is leadership.

"Empathy is not weakness. It's strategic alignment."

"Instruction may produce compliance. Empathy produces contribution."

Are you Intertwined? Or "INTERTWINEMENT" THE HIDDEN SOLUTION TO ENDURING ACHIEVEMENTS.

Are you Intertwined? Or intertwinement. The hidden solution to enduring achievements.

“Where might my roots intertwine more intentionally?” “Belonging becomes enduring when people know what they can always count on us to do.”
— Lee Brower

“We are not put on earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.”
— Eric Butterworth

“Character is what you do when no one is watching.”
— John Wooden

“What holds us up is rarely what people see, but it’s always what matters most.”
— Lee Brower