Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

Why Can't We Wait 28 Seconds Anymore

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
— Aristotle

"There is no app for building patience."
— Simon Sinek

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
— Lao Tzu

"You can't microwave trust. You can't instant-message intimacy."

Seeing Beyond First Impressions

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn.”
— Benjamin Franklin

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
— Viktor Frankl

When we judge too quickly, we risk missing extraordinary people, extraordinary lessons, and extraordinary opportunities.

Gratitude in the now. Choices for the future. Ripples for generations.

From Complaint to Collaboration

One small shift you can make this week to change the tone of your family, business, and/or community.

‘Losers assemble in small groups and complain about the coaches and other players. Winners assemble as a team and find ways to win.’
- Bill Parcels

Remember, "We rise when lifting others."

Each time we pause before reacting, we stack one more positive moment.

Be The Music That Heals

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”
– Mark Twain.

Arthur C. Brooks once said, “Kindness and warm-heartedness are the antivenom for the poisonous contempt coursing through the veins of our political discourse.”

Just because you disagree doesn't mean you have to be disagreeable.

Be the Compass or Just Another Passenger

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.

“You don’t have to wait for the rainbow to enjoy the rain.”
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf“

"Love is the ‘why’ of the leaders that can bring America back together, and of all of us in our families and communities.”
— Arthur C. Brooks

Don't Arrive... Flow

"The Enemy of Thriving is Arriving."
– Lee Brower

"Live life deliberately- no finish lines."
– Lee Brower

"Knowing your 'So That' will inspire others to find their own 'So That'.

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”
– John F. Kennedy

Rights vs Obligations vs Opportunities

We have God-given rights which bring with them obligations, which, when properly honored, become opportunities.

An indigenous elder of Cherokee descent, Stan Rushworth, reminded us of the difference between a Western settler mindset of "I have rights" and an indigenous mindset of "I have obligations." Instead of thinking, 'My rights entitle me,' what if we choose to think that we are born with obligations— not rights —to serve past, present, and future generations?

Scooter Can

"Positivity attracts courage, solutions, and people who lift us higher. Who you believe yourself to be is who you become."
— Lee Brower

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”
— Napoleon Hill

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
— Carl Jung

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”
— Denis Waitley

What defines you? Do You Really Know?

Here is a hint- it is not your decisions!

"Character is the ability to carry out a worthwhile decision long after the decision has passed."

"Our thoughts determine our actions, our actions determine our habits, our habits determine our character, and our character determines our eternal destiny."
- David O. McKay

Be The Weather

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet."
— Bob Marley

“It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.”
— Chinese Proverb

"If you deeply lean into gratitude, the mental 'light' it produces makes it harder for negativity to fully occupy your awareness."
— Lee Brower

"Negativity is simply the absence of gratitude."
— Lee Brower