Meaningful Mondays: Recent Episodes
Lee Brower
“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
“How much of life do we miss by waiting to see the rainbow before thanking God that there is rain?”
- Dieter Uchtdorf
Hands on the tablecloth that keep on helping.
What is the #1 question I get asked from highly successful leaders?
And, how does the answer to the following question lead to the answer to their question: “What is the you that makes you– you?”
“What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”
- Pericles
“Legacy is not what you leave. Legacy is how you live.”
-LMB
Why do you you needlessly torture yourself with comparison and competition? There is no such thing as low self-discipline!
WE The People.. Are we losing the concept of society– where all sorts of people come together in the common aim of pursuing the common good? Has the We become Me?
Is there a relationship between Meaningfulness and Happiness?
If so, which one drives which?
4 Pillars of Meaningfulness: Belonging; Purpose; Transcendence; Story Telling.
“The “truths” we cling to shape the quality of our societies as well as our individual character.” … Dieter Uchtdorf
The “AmaGoogleFace” Dilemma.
Little Sloane and Natalie say Hi!!
When entitlement is founded in Grattitude, might we call that EMPOWERMENT?
Entitlement versus Empowerment
Would you like to know two easy practices that will convert your sense of entitlement into a powerful presence of empowerment? It is not by humbling yourself!
What distracts you from what matters most?
What is the difference between True Wealth and False Wealth?
15,220,770 texts sent each minute. Trillions each day!
“The irony of our time is that we have guided missiles but misguided men.”
- Martin Luther King.
Have you ever found it perplexing that we can go all the way to the moon and back, yet, we struggle to start a conversation across the road or across the aisle?
What is True Legacy?
Am I saying you can find ways to be grateful FOR Harvey, Erma or Cancer? NO!!! But you can be grateful IN. Being IN gratitude creates True Legacy.
Adversity does not build Character, it reveals it.” … James Allen
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” … Helen Keller
“America is great because she is good. But, if she ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great. Alexis de Toqueville
Knowing the Good, Desiring the Good, Doing the Good.
I REALLY BLEW IT!!!
“True happiness is … to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.”
- Seneca
“Unfortunately, I chose to limit my gratitude. Being truly present magnifies the joy of our gratitude.”
- L M Brower