Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

Lessons...We can Learn from everything. We can learn from our misfortunes and from our fortunes.

“Being challenged is inevitable; being defeated is optional.” “If you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.” "Willpower is for those who haven't decided." - Benjamin Hardy

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go." - Mother Teresa

"94% of failure is the result of the system." - W. Edwards Deming When you become indispensable, you disrupt the system. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAVE. thanks for not being indispensable!

Just Because You Look Dumb, Don't Mean You Ain't... Whaaat? ..and a couple of other things I learned from my late father.

When you fight for your limitations, you get to keep them. I’ll bet you fight for some of your limitations. I have!

Confidence vs Gratitude Does gratitude instill confidence or the other way around? How would you answer this intriguing question? This question is from a regular viewer of Meaningful Monday... Thank You, Dr. Cheri Ong

"You only have one thing and one thing only in your life that is ever guaranteed." - David Frey Founder, AdventureVet & Veterans Charity Ride  (WHAT IS IT?)

How can you be a Game Changer? Step out of your comfort zone and do something for someone else.   Is there something out there that is more for me? Do something for someone else... serve.

From the mouth of babes...

How do YOU stay afloat in troubled waters? “Ships don’t sink because of the water around them. They sink because of the water that gets inside.”

Appreciation precedes generocity. The enemy of thriving is arriving.

"But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like, would be glad to go home with his own." Storms make roots grow deeper. In the midst of life storms we are reminded of how strong our roots are.

We all can use a “Pity Party”.

Do you have a Whip Cream Mindset? "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that." -Martin Luther King Jr. "It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness." - Eleanor Roosevelt

The ability to carry out a worth while decision, once the emotion of making that decision has past.

"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."  Pope John Paul II Can we enable the desire for the Freedom that enables us to Do?

Turn Your Lights On! "When we carry the burdens of the past, we can not live joyfully now."  - Lloyd Newell "Turn your face to the sun, the shadows fall behind you."  - Maori Proverb

"Those you influence are greatly influenced by what influences you." - Lee Brower "He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow." - Elbert Hubbard

"EAT THE MEAT, THROW AWAY THE BONES!" This will be my longest Meaningful Monday of 2018. Don't miss a simple, yet proven, formula that will guarantee you an even more meaningful 2018.

What can I do today (before the end of the year) to create a milestone into 2018? Let's get a movement going, to find ways to show kindness.

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart."  - Helen Keller

Why do seeds grow down before they grow up? Over time, great traditions become the roots that strengthen families, and create stability in a world of volatility and uncertainty.

"Happiness comes and goes. But, when life is really good or life is really bad, having meaning gives you something to hold on to."   - Emily Esfahani Smith Some groups offer a cheap form of belonging. That is not meaningfulness.

Is there a relationship between gratitude and self-control? "Man's greatest enemy is himself. Man, in his weakness is the creature of circumstances. Man, in his strength is the creator of circumstances." -  William George Jordan, 1905