Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

Let the Snake Slither Away

To be offended is a choice we make. It is not a condition inflicted upon us by someone or something else.

"Our choices determine our freedoms."
- Lee Brower

It’s Just the Beginning - Be the Reason

"The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstance of our lives, and everything to do with the focus of our lives."
- Russell M. Nelson

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
- Neale Donald Walsch

"The enemy of thriving is arriving."
- Lee M. Brower

Pringles and Motivation

What does your "future self" possess that you don't?
- Dr. Benjamin Hardy

Can "Pringling" be the way to victory over even our most pesky personal and business ambitions?
Pringles = aggregating small but steady marginal gains. i.e. The more you are in motion, the more you tend to stay in motion.

Find out what happens if you carry a cat around by its tail. It’s just the beginning.

"It's just the beginning" ... 85-year-old lifetime learner.

"A man who carries a cat by its tail learns something HE CAN LEARN in no other way."
 - Mark Twain

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."
 - Henry Ford

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner anywhere."
 - Chinese Proverb

Can you name one fundamental belief that inspires trust? How about five?

"There are only two ways to influence human behavior. You can manipulate it, or you can inspire it."
 - Simon Sinek

In other words... "Arrows Out" is all about getting someone motivating you to do it. "Arrows In" is all about you being inspired to do it.

Wooden read this every day for the last 85 years of his life.

"I am not what I want to be; not what I am going to be, but I am thankful that I am better than I used to be."
- Coach John Wooden

Penguins and Light

Don't be too quick to judge someone.

Over 30 family/friends/and families battling cancer celebrate Nick's birthday.

"Dark cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that."
- Martin Luther King

Remember the Fleas

Regardless of your circumstances (horrible or great), when you focus on gratitude, your eyes will see opportunities the would have never seen otherwise.

"Gratitude illuminates the lessons from our past and inspires us with hope for our future so that we can make better choices in the moment."

ARROWS OUT!!! ONward, UPward, and OUTward!

"Gratitude unexpressed is ingratitude perceived." - LMB

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

UNGRATEFUL - is being unaware or oblivious.
SOCIAL - is about respect.
APPRECIATIVE - is about acknowledgment.
EMPOWERED - is all about sustainability.

Find out what 2 words I have chosen to inspire me in 2022

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, I have been bent and broken, but--I hope--into a better shape."
- Estella from "Great Expectations."

We all face challenges that shape the course of our lives. But that shape and that course are still ours to choose.