Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

Comfort Zone

"The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp to your comfort zone."
- Karen Salmonson

"A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there."
- John Assaraf

Everyone should have an MBA

Everyone should have an M.B.A.
Can you guess what M.B.A. stands for?
M__ B_____ A_______

"You could spend your life serving others or you could spend it on yourself."
 - Coach John Wooden

Tell Me No

Want more time to finish your To-Do List? Make a Don't Do List.

Can saying "No" really help me to say "Yes"?

Success is Succession

"A leader's lasting value is measured by succession."
 - John C. Maxwell

"Success is Succession"

"We take responsibility to create legacies of leadership that will take those that follow to levels of "Sustainable Prosperity®" previously unimagined."
- Lee M Brower

Can Families Save America?

"A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes. If you want to reform a nation, you begin with families."
- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Political polarization is interfering with the fuel of happiness, which is love."
- Arthur C. Brooks

"A family doesn't have to be perfect; it just needs to be united." "If you want to change the world, go home and love your family."
- Mother Teresa

GrAttitude - a Leadership Principle

An attitude of gratitude shifts our focus from what we lack or strive for to what we already have.

"At the crux of ingratitude is ego. Ingratitude turns us inward, inviting us to focus only on ourselves and our own needs. It leads us to feel entitled and to resent when at some point or other the world fails to meet one of our expectations. And it causes us to be blind to those who helped us achieve our successes."
- Arbinger Institute

Practicing Deliberate Gratitude

Two words that open the door to deliberate gratitude.

"Deliberate gratitude when practiced becomes a light that unconsciously illuminates others, giving them the courage to do the same."

Get out from under the Streetlight

Don't be a moth... Why do people huddle around streetlights rather than looking where they might be able to find the truth?

How much time is spent huddling around the streetlight of bitterness and blame rather than where the truth is more likely to be?

"It's difficult to look for what's working when it's so much easier to look for what is not working."

"What is your Streetlight?"

Buy me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks

What do you think? Is it time for a seventh-inning stretch?

Celebration - an outward display of Gratitude

Can hatred and gratitude dwell in us at the same time?

Science shows that by practicing gratitude and celebration, we prime our brains to be more open to new ideas... to be more creative, and efficient.

How many times will you use the word "celebrate" this week? Try it.