Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

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."

"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.

"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.

“The best gifts aren’t bought from the store... The best is gifts of kindness given from the heart.”
- Charlie Brown

"Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
- Mark Twain

"Our society does a reasonably good job in the course of daily life of taking off the moral lens and helping us see life through an economic lens, making us morally numb."
 - David Brooks

"Train your mind to see the good in everything.  Positivity is a choice.  The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
- Marcandangel

When you choose to see the good in others, you end up finding the good in yourself.

When you focus on the good, the good gets better.

Feel guilty always asking for God's blessings? Do this instead...

The one thing you can't delegate is your influence.

Choosing to smile or to do a good deed today changes your mindset from the inside out.

Discover what 3 things you can do to capitalize on the human tendency to seek progress.

Fear of losing induces inaction. The thrill of gain induces action.

Rationalization is lowering your standards down to your level of behavior.

Wisdom is pure intelligence before the contamination of thought.

Apple seeds only produce apples. Good thoughts produce good fruit.

You may not be able to stop a bird from landing on your head, but you can stop him from making a nest there.