Someone posted this in a motivational group I am a part of and I love it!
Focus on the center, finding the sweet combination between what you are good at, what the world needs, what you can be compensated for and what you love!
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I love this! Such a powerful reminder that no matter what, we have options and it’s the decisions of what we do with the “cards we are dealt” that determines our day, week, month, life…not the cards themselves.
Love this from Shawn Achor! If you haven’t read his book, “The Happiness Advantage”, you are missing out! Also check out his ted.com talk. Just search for Shawn achor.
Jessica brought these two this morning at our morning meeting. They were excellent 🙂
“If I am going to do something different and if I want to meet someone’s needs, I really need to go the distance.”-Hilary Swank
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”-Charles R Swindell
Feel free to substitute your name for “Joel” 🙂
At a construction site in the Midwest, all the workers would sit down together for lunch. Every day Brian would open his lunch pail and complain. “Son if a gun, not pb&j again! I hate peanut butter and jelly!”
He whines about his peanut butter and jelly everyday until finally one day another worker said “for cripes sakes Brian, if you hate pb&j have your wife make you something different!”
Brian said “what do you mean, wife? I’m not married. I make my own sanwhiches.”
Our lives are created by us :-). Complaints usually hold no merit. Get busy forging the life we want and forget about bitching about “sandwiches”
-Adapted from the book “The Way of the Peaceful Warrior”
Don’t fall into maladaptive perfectionism: having high standards (which is a good thing) but always beating yourself up for small imperfections (not a good thing). Be a Satisfied Striver: Happy in the now with big dreams of the future, and knowledge you can improve.
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”-Micheal J Fox
Dissemination of Inspiration 