Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

"At the heart of misery, you will find the love of wrong things. At the heart of every joy, you will find the love of good things." - Dieter Uchtdorf

Love should be our walk and talk.
Ask yourself, "What one thing can I do today to bring more love into the world?"

Try replacing "I'm sorry" with ... "Thank YOU!"

When you start to communicate appreciation you will improve confidence in yourself and gratitude in others. They, then, are inspired to repeat the good qualities you acknowledge.

Can you instill these motivators in your team? How about in your family?

"Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled. They are four-dimensional: body, mind, heart, and spirit."
--Stephen Covey

"You don't build a business, you build people, then people build the business."
--Zig Ziglar

"Never in the field of conflict was so much owed by so many for so few."
- Winston Churchill

"It's better to fight for something in life than to die for nothing."
- Gen. George S. Patton

Dark is not the opposite of light. It is just the absence of light. Be the light.

"We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light."
- Earl Nightengale.

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots."
- Albert Einstein

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it is only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference."
- John McCain

"If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world."
- Emmett Fox

"Don't insist on remembering things that the Lord is willing to forget."
- Hugh B. Brown

Thank you to Rand McCullough, Realtor.

Leaders are the people who elevate, motivate, inspire, and drive things forward, regardless of where they find themselves.

"Silent gratitude isn't of much use to anyone."
- Gertrude Stein

"Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise."
- Sam Walton

"The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives, but more to do with the focus of our lives."
- Russell M. Nelson

Before our kids (we) EXPRESS appreciation, they (we) should EXPERIENCE appreciation.

It's like sprinkling the leaves of a plant when what's needed is to water the roots.

The intention is to guide them (and us) from recognizing kindness to valuing kindness.
A x A x A = AG Awareness x Appreciation x Acknowledgement = Authentic Gratitude