Monday Morning Wake Up Call

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

Summertime Fun It’s that time of the year when we create games to make those long road trips a little less painful, especially when traveling with children.  Here is a fun one that will not only make you feel good but lift those around you as well. Start with the letter A and work your way through the entire alphabet, giving the person next to you a compliment using the next letter in the alphabet. Such as, “You are Amazing! You are Beautiful! You are Creative!” You must always use a word that will make that person feel good. (Sometimes you will need to get a little creative.) The book, Miracles in Water by Dr. Emoto teaches us that words are powerful and have the ability to impact us in a positive way, or a negative way, based on how they are used. If you need another game to keep you occupied, you can go through the alphabet again using words that describe someone or something that you could be. Such as, “You would be an amazing Actor. You would be a beautiful Ballerina”, etc.  These games inspire young children to feel good about themselves and to dream of what they can achieve. It sounds like a good game for adults too! Enjoy! Something to Think About It’s been scientifically proven that mean words hurt us, and kind words make us feel good. When you are angry, it’s sometimes hard to say something nice, but perhaps the first step for all of us is to not say something mean. What a wonderful world that would be! Weekly Activity:  Go out of your way to spread kindness through words this week. Reach out to at least five friends and five clients with a call or note using words of gratitude and affirmation. You’ll lift their worth and you’ll feel inspired as well. Words of Wisdom Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much. Blaise Pascal Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years. Joseph B. Wirthlin Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain! Frederick William Faber Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world. Lawrence G. Lovasik Imagine what our real neighbors would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person. Sometimes, all it takes is one kind word to nourish another person. Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many. Fred Rogers

Monday Morning Wake Up Call

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

Dance with Change This might sound silly, but why do you change the style of your clothes?  Why do you eat different foods at different times and places? Why do you enjoy the company of some people some days, and other people on other days? How do you explain that sometimes you want to be left alone and other times you want to be with others? It all boils down to an inner need that all of us have.  We want to have a sense of control over our lives and to make our choices freely, when we want to make them. Something that we can’t control is change. Change happens all the time. It is inevitable; it’s a fact of life.  We are all different, and change affects all of us differently. But there is also a universal desire within everyone. That desire is to experience life to its fullest. Change allows us that opportunity. So, when change comes knocking at your door, if you are packed and ready, then Bon Voyage and enjoy the journey! But if you are still contemplating where you want to go or what you want to do, answer the door slowly and invite change in while you get ready! Something to Think About If you’d like to change, if you’d like to be different, if you would like to try new things, then dance with change when given the chance. Weekly Activity If change comes knocking this week, swing open the door and welcome it in! Take a new route to work. Try something you’ve always wanted to try. Do something spontaneous – even if it’s out of your comfort zone. In fact – especially if it’s out of your comfort zone. That’s where we learn the most! You may even want to challenge yourself to prospect outside your comfort zone by walking your neighborhood farm, creating five business connections, or increasing your prospecting calls. Words of Wisdom Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone de Beauvoir If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

Monday Morning Wake Up Call

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

Are you talking to yourself?  Some of the best conversations I have ever had were the ones I had with myself.  Not a verbal conversation, but more of a running commentary in my mind about things going on in my life, or major decisions that I needed to make.  All of us talk to ourselves with ongoing dialogs of emotions and interpretations of what we really think and feel about things. But are we listening for answers, or just rambling? Research shows that our minds are amazing. They are taking in emotions, facts, visuals, and info 24/7. You actually know more than you think you know most of the time. Here’s a great example. When you are playing a game that requires you to come up with an answer or even taking a test, how often to you choose an answer, and then change your mind, only to discover that your first response was the correct one? How often does that happen and why?  It’s because we have absorbed so many small details and info over our lifetime that we can’t remember it all, but it’s all stored in our memory banks, which means that the answers to many of your questions are right there in front of you. You just need to listen to that inner voice, or as some say -- your gut. The answers to many of your questions are right there inside your own head. Something to Think About:  Too often we second guess our decisions and actions. You are smarter than you think! Weekly Activity: This week, when you have a decision to make, any decision, go with your first answer or impulse and see what happens! Words of Wisdom Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Guillaume Apollinaire Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness. Frank Tyger There is more to life than increasing its speed. Mahatma Gandhi Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it. Lou Holtz True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self. Joseph Addison