Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

By Lee BrowerEducation

Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out episodes

October 05 Ring the Bell
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— John Wooden
“Sometimes the greatest value in an experience isn’t the nectar we went looking for. It’s the pollen we bring home.”
— Lee Brower
“Possibility begins when I stop measuring what I have against what someone else has.”
— Lee Brower
6 min
September 28 Sometimes the Wrong Seat puts us Exactly Where Something Meaningful can Happen
“What if the greatest value of where you’re going isn’t the reason you went?”
— Lee Brower
“Never mistake activity for achievement.”
— John Wooden
“Get in motion toward what matters. You never know what you’ll pollinate along the way.”
— Lee Brower
7 min
September 20 Triboluminescence
“The tree that never had to fight / For sun and sky and air and light / But stood out in the open plain / And always got its share of rain / Never became a forest king / But lived and died a scrubby thing.”
– Douglas Malloch, “Good Timber”
“Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.” A proverb – If we calm all the seas, where do they learn to sail?
Friction is where discernment resides. It is where critical thinking begins.
6 min
September 14 I had no idea what I was saying when I say, "I am glad to be here."
“Gratitude unexpressed is ingratitude perceived.”
“Gladness is what happens when gratitude becomes visible.”
Today I challenge you: Before today is over, make the gratitude that is within you visible to one person.
4 min
September 08 Bad Calls - Nobody gets a season without bad calls
“There are no losers in this tournament. Only winners and learners.”
— Nick
“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.”
— Jackie Robinson — (he took more bad calls than anyone).
“It was never about them. They were playing for something much bigger.”
“All you get to decide is the next pitch. And you never decide it alone.”
“Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it.”
— Charles Swindell
9 min
August 31 Vision creates Motion, Worry gives us Motion Sickness
Vision creates motion; worry gives us Motion Sickness
“Is the future you’re imagining inspiring your NOW, or stealing it?
“Vision and worry are both acts of imagination” → “Vision borrows inspiration; worry borrows trouble” → “we pay for both NOW.”
TEARs = Time, Energy, Attention, Resources.
“Worry imports an imagined FUTURE into the NOW and charges us for it today.”
“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.”
— Corrie ten Boom
6 min
August 24 STOP FEEDING IT! "Be careful what you feed. It may follow you home."
What you feed follows you. What you starve loses its power.
You have the power to redirect your TEAR’s.
From worry → gratitude and action.
From regret → wisdom.
From resentment → forgiveness.
From comparison → contribution.
From scrolling → connection.
From “if only” → “knowing what I know now.”
7 min
August 17 Look Anyway
“Can’t find gratitude today? Look anyway. The looking may be where gratitude begins.”
“When you can’t find something to be grateful for, look anyway.”
“It’s not finding gratitude that matters most; it’s remembering to look in the first place.”
Grateful FOR asks, ” What happened that deserves my gratitude?” Grateful IN asks, “Who will I choose to be in this moment?”
“Gratitude isn’t the reward we receive when circumstances improve. It is a way of being while our circumstances are unfolding.”
Guilt looks backward. Worry looks forward. Gratitude brings us into the NOW.
All choices happen in the moment where gratitude resides.
6 min
August 10 You Don't Need Clarity to Get Into Motion
What if you’ve spent years looking for something that was never lost — only idle?
“Don’t wait for purpose to give you direction. Make a contribution—and let contribution reveal the direction.”
— Lee Brower
Maybe purpose isn’t something we find. Maybe purpose is something we activate.
— Lee Brower
“Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.”
— Viktor Frankl
6 min
August 03 Where Wisdom Flows, Generations Grow.™
“In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.”
— Phil Collins
“Wisdom held is inventory. Wisdom moved is a legacy.”
— Lee Brower
“A river doesn’t make its own water. Not one drop.”
— Lee Brower “Nobody is the river.
Everybody is a tributary.”
— Lee Brower
7 min