Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

What if you could multiply better choices?

What is the keystone that connects wisdom from your past with the inspiration and faith in your future?

What does "a constant curiosity" have to do with my past and my future? "Creative people must have a constant curiosity."
- Robert D. Hales

"Curiosity urges us to ask questions, to seek out a range of resources and perspectives, to seek answers to those questions. And, to critically evaluate our experiences as we synthesize all information into a new understanding. These skills allow us to open our thoughts and experiences to new ways of thinking."
- Rachel Wadham, Educational and Juvenile Literature Librarian.

How can you see the invisible?

Several ways to ask the same question that will change your approach to life and impact the invisible.

Are you an EGGhead?

Discover how being an EGGhead will make you more resilient to stress; your physical health and your mental health will be better -- And, you will be more apt to learn and grow from difficult experiences.

Peace like a River

“I see the challenges that are in front of me, but they don’t need to overwhelm me. Just like the river, I can move along with peace in my heart, with a quiet place inside myself where the trouble of the world cannot come.”

What is the ONE word?

Years ago I was asked if I could in one sentence describe why family wealth rarely succeeds into future generations. I said I could do it in ONE word! Since that day, research has absolutely proven that ONE activity, when exercised, can make you even healthier, more productive, and happier in so many other ways.

GET OUTTA HERE! A lesson in leadership from a flight attendant.

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader."
- John Quincy Adams

"You cannot give all the good the world needs- but the world needs all you can give."

Enough is Enough!

"If you want to change the world, go home and love your family."
-- Mother Teresa

"Share the things most important to you with those who are most important to you."
-- LMB i. e. (Don't delegate the transfer of your values and wisdom to social media, Hollywood, or other influencers outside the family to do it for you)!

As the scripture teaches, `Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.'
 - (Prov. 22:6.)

"Peace in society depends upon peace in the family."
-- Augustine

"We must restore the sacredness of the family as a bedrock of humane values everywhere, in peace as well as in war."
-- Kofi Annan

"To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right."
-- Confucius

Can someone be motivated to cheat?

"Anyone can be a Chief Problem Finder. Leaders are Chief Problem Solvers. Inspired leaders fix the problem before it emerges."
- Randy Glenn

Motivation is all about obtaining (the carrot or the stick). Inspiration is all about becoming. Motivation is temporary. Inspiration is eternal.

Principles of Leadership from Coach John Wooden

What are you grateful for right now, right here?

"I believe that things turn out best for those that make the best of the way things turn out."
- Coach John Wooden

The Gratitude Trick - Taking Gratitude to 10X

As you consciously practice principles of gratitude, these acts of gratitude evolve into habits; as you nurture those habits, those habits evolve into traits that become your true character. Gratitude then becomes the light that unconsciously illuminates others, giving them the inspiration to do the same.