Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

I sat next to a Princess. Let me tell you what I learned.

“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
- Norman Cousins

“We lived for days on nothing but food and water.”
- W.C. Fields

“We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.”
- Frank Tibolt

A Dog, and Sasha

Kindness has ripples that influence for decades, even centuries.

Have I done any good?

Want to see good in the world? Then ask for it.

Those who live only for themselves eventually shrivel up and figuratively lose their lives, while those who lose themselves in service to others grow and flourish-- and in effect save their lives.

Ask this one question to anchor yourself in this turbulent world.

Don't give up on an uncertain future.

Focus on those things that you have control over.

When you give up, you surrender your choice. Your story is the choices you make.

The choices you make, make you! Yes and No lead in opposite directions and determine the "story" of your life.

Ask this question mid-choice (in the moment) "What story do I want to tell."

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