Monday Morning Wake Up Call

Monday Morning Wake Up Call: Your Motivation, Inspiration, & Direction for the Week Ahead

Making Memories For all the dads out there, I hope you had a wonderful Father’s Day. For those who celebrated Father’s Day with a memory of their dad, I hope they were fun and wonderful memories. Memories are amazing! They evoke an emotion, which can stimulate feelings. Sometimes memories are created through conversations. Siblings getting together to talk about their childhood memories, or a stroll down memory lane with a photo album or journal. I recently watched a group of siblings recall their childhood experiences and memories. They laughed and talked for hours, but it was interesting to see how different their memories were. One sibling recalled the situation with humor, but the other had a completely different memory that was not as funny, while yet another sibling had no recollection of that event. Experts tell us that each of us has stored different emotions or details of events in the past that define how we describe it in the future, or even if we choose to remember it. The next time this happens to you, as you are enjoying a trip down memory lane with family members and friends, take that opportunity to learn details of that event which you do not remember. Something to Think About We all choose to remember what we think is important, or those things which have a definite emotional impact at the time. You can’t remember everything, so this makes sense. However as you get older, hearing the stories of your childhood from your family or your siblings can be quite fun. It will give you additional stories that you can pass onto your children and grandchildren to be treasured for generations to come. Weekly Activity Call or visit a sibling or family member and ask them what their favorite or funniest memory is of a time when you were much younger. Also, share your fondest or funniest memories. They will appreciate the call or visit, guaranteed! Words of Wisdom Timid salesmen have skinny kids. – Zig Ziglar If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. – Jeffrey Gitomer Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. – Brian Tracy Try not to become a person of success, but try to become a person of value. – Albert Einstein