Love this! Thank you for sharing, Ashley! Life is hard, but you get to choose the reason(s).
It is not going to be an easy life if you stay in your comfort zone.
It is not going to be an easy life if you decide to stretch yourself.
One of those choices, however, is VASTLY more rewarding.
Choose wisely 🙂
If you haven’t checked out the Power of Positive Summit (put on by Jon Gordon and Daniel Decker), you really should. It is multiple days chock-full of inspirational videos (bite-sized about 5-10 mins max). I watched this one today with Inky Johnson and shared it with my team.
Inky does an amazing job at discussing how little obstacles can actually make a huge difference in our lives.
He talks about the lives of some people who narrowly missed the 9/11 tragedy due to small obstacles (coffee stained shirt, car accident in front of them on the highway, etc).
I loved the talk!
How often do we get frustrated by little things that we can view as obstacles that truly are opportunities to live a better life?
Give it a watch/listen, it is worth it!
http://www.powerofpositivesummit.com/watch19/inky19.html
“Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one of these is sufficient. To keep progressing, we must learn, commit and do–learn, commit and do—and learn, commit and do again.”-Stephen R Covey
In other words: complacency kills progress. 🙂
Love the process and keep learning, committing and doing!
Happy Thursday,
Dr. Lindeman
P.S. Purposely Postive has been downloaded over 1000 times! Check it out on Amazon!Â
Thank you Ashley for sharing this today!
If you have dreams, you need to share them or at least ask for them :). Then get to work moving toward them, learning, evolving and transforming. BEcome worthy of your biggest dreams 🙂
P.S. Check out Dr. Lindeman’s Book: Purposely Positive on Amazon!
In our office, we share the morning meeting floor. Meaning: I run the meeting Monday and Thursday, Jessica runs Tuesday, Ashley runs Wednesday. We go over yearly goals, daily goals, (root and fruit… root goals are our purpose, passions, focus, intent. Fruit goals are things we can measure to see how well we are tending to our root goals) Miracle Moments (things patients say about how well we have impacted their lives, for instance Ed C stated yesterday that this past weekend was the first weekend he was able to sit through church without excruciating pain in months), and whomever is running the meeting brings an inspirational quote, song, poem, etc as well.
This week has been different. We still have one meeting leader, but each of us have been bringing inspirational things (we haven’t set 2nd quarter goals yet, we have our 2nd quarter meeting Monday after the seminar we are attending this weekend).
So, without further ado, here are the three motivational things we shared today:
Ashley:
Me:
Paraphrased from the book “Atomic Habits” by James Clear:
A University of Florida photography professor divided his groups into 2 groups. Group 1 would be graded on the quantity of pictures they took (100) and group 2 would be graded on the quality of pictures they took (1 each). Conventional wisdom would say group 2 would take the best picture because they could focus on it more, while group 1 would probably spend time taking pictures of their friends’ feet or etc. At the end of the semester, the professor found group 1 had much better pictures than group 2. Why? They were able to experiment, enjoy taking multiple pictures and learn from their mistakes.
Takeaway: Have fun attempting new things, there aren’t any failures, just learning experiences toward your best YOU!
Jessica:
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up-The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”-Thomas Edison
He knows what he is talking about. The fabled inventor of the light bulb attempted over 1,000 variants before he got it right- and changed the world. You never know when your breakthrough will happen. However, you will always know when you break-and that is when you quit.
Have an awesome day!
Also, check out Dr. Lindeman’s book “Purposely Postive: How to Live an Intentional and Inspired Life” on Amazon.
To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.
We are always learning.
We live in a world where so much knowledge is at our fingertips (quite literally).
It isn’t hard to do an internet search and find the answer to almost any question we can come up with.
Access to information is not a problem.
They key to true learning and growth is wisdom.
We need to unlearn what isn’t serving us.
We need to take the knowledge we have and apply it so it becomes part of who we are.
We also need to do a brain-dump every now and then. Figure out what you no longer need in your life and cut it out.
Work on learning, definitely.
But also focus on turning knowledge into wisdom in order to create a brighter future.
Also-check out my book: Purposely Positive on Amazon!
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