The Greatness Within You!! (post by Les Brown)
Break loose! Free yourself from dysfunctional people who are experts at meeting their own needs at the expense of yours. Don’t let people stay in your life who trample on your feelings or behave badly. Set clear boundaries so that you don’t get caught up their maze of madness, or feel responsible for their life choices or consequences. Live in your own story. Don’t try to edit someone else’s.
Practice radical self-care, and work to maintain your peace of mind. Do something everyday that nourishes your spirit, opens your heart, and builds mental resiliency. It’s your life. Live intentionally with purpose and passion. You have GREATNESS within you!
Stress (post by Les Brown)
Stress can shut down your power if you let it. Don’t allow people, bills, or pressures on the job to consume your focus, energy and joy for life. Uncontrolled stress can cause you to gain weight; change your personality, create problems in your relationships, turn your hair gray overnight, make you sick, and make it difficult for you to get out of bed.
Take time to become aware of the major stressors in your life and the ways you are dealing with them. Recognize the price you are paying for not taking deliberate action with regards to your spiritual, social, emotional and physical well-being. In the face of what may appear to be crippling circumstances, choose to live every part of your life. Decide to be happy, actively engaged and live from the inside out. Create centered and grounding moments in your own life as part of your spiritual life.
Use what works – exercise, meditation, meaningful connections with others. Volunteer your time to make a difference in the lives of others. You are more powerful than you are currently living. Harness your power to live above the stress in your life. You have GREATNESS within you!
Innovate or Replicate (post by Kirk Weisler)
From the pages of a 2007 entry in my Leadership Learning Journal as well as a partial previous blog post from that same year….some learning from a conference session with leadership guru Mark Sanborn.
It doesn’t take any more time to be kind to someone than it does to be a jerk.
What does it mean to truly C.A.R.E. for a customer? Create A Rare Experience
Quality & Service get you into the game – relationships keep you in and help you to win.
Celebrity is based on what you get – Greatness is based on what you give.
Great Questions to Ask yourself might include.
Q. Did I waste any of the day I just finished?
Q. Was I fully engaged in each moment?
The 3 word question Innovate or Replicate?
Great question to ask someone you haven’t seen in a while. Q. What great idea has seized you since we last met!
You can re-invent yourself everyday! It’s never too late to become who you might have been.
Good stuff… my favorite asking , “What good idea has seized you since we last met?”
What’s your favorite?
Kirk – Fully Engaged.
Labor Day – Did You Know……
An illustration of the first Labor Day parade, held on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. The holiday was organized by the Central Labor Union to exhibit “the strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations” of the community, and to host a festival for the workers and their families.
New York, New Jersey and Colorado were among the first states to approve state legal holidays. In response to support for a national holiday, Sen. James Henderson Kyle of South Dakota introduced a bill to make Labor Day a legal holiday on the first Monday of September each year. It was approved June 28, 1894.
Children march in the 1963 New York City Labor Day parade. Since the very first celebration, Labor Day has been a time for families to relax and have fun.
http://www.dol.gov/laborday/history.htm
Don’t Block The Exit
I don’t believe in dying. It’s been done. I’m working on a new exit. Besides, I can’t die now, I’m booked. -George Burns
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. -Tom Stoppard
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. -Alexandre Dumas
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Do You Hear What I Hear??
Sometime we take “hearing” for granted but we should take a step back and appreciate the birds that sing, the mosquito that buzzes in your ear, the sound of laughter, the sound of the me singing off-key (hehehe), the sound of just being able to hear. I’m so thankful and so is this little sweet baby boy!
Hakuna Matata
I was watching this movie last night and didn’t realize how many songs I knew from this movie. I mean, really really knew the songs, high notes, low notes and the dramatic look I do when singing them. My kids are now 17,14, & 12 which means I saw this movie years ago.
Now I am sharing this song with you to..
1. Get it stuck in your head (you are welcome)
2. To make you smile!
3. Because you will feel much happier for the rest of the day!!
