Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

"You don't get what you want in life, you get in life what you are.”

“We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us."

- Charles De Lint

What will you do to ensure the best decade of your life?

My S.P.I.C.E. Fit

Would you be willing to take the Gratitude Challenge?
“Gratitude is the greatest of virtues and the parent of all the others.”
- Cicero

...It's deciding how you will go about achieving them. It is all about the journey- not the destination.
“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
― Abraham Lincoln“
"If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.”
---Yogi Berra

“This is not happening TO me. It’s…”
– Sean Stephenson

“It’s not the destination, it’s the journey.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Sometimes we become so focused on the finish line that we fail to enjoy and learn from the journey.”
– Lee M Brower

You fall to your lowest level of preparation.

"...One of the central elements of the word charACTer is A, C, T.  How one acts reveals in a powerful way his or her true character." 

“Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant."
- Gordon B. Hinckley

"Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect."
- Richard John Neuhaus

“For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue..."
- Victor Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning."