Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

By Lee BrowerEducation

Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out episodes

February 27, 2022 Let the Snake Slither Away
To be offended is a choice we make. It is not a condition inflicted upon us by someone or something else.
"Our choices determine our freedoms."
- Lee Brower
4 min
February 21, 2022 It’s Just the Beginning - Be the Reason
"The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstance of our lives, and everything to do with the focus of our lives."
- Russell M. Nelson
"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."
- Neale Donald Walsch
"The enemy of thriving is arriving."
- Lee M. Brower
5 min
February 14, 2022 Pringles and Motivation
What does your "future self" possess that you don't?
- Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Can "Pringling" be the way to victory over even our most pesky personal and business ambitions?
Pringles = aggregating small but steady marginal gains. i.e. The more you are in motion, the more you tend to stay in motion.
6 min
February 07, 2022 Find out what happens if you carry a cat around by its tail. It’s just the beginning.
"It's just the beginning" ... 85-year-old lifetime learner.
"A man who carries a cat by its tail learns something HE CAN LEARN in no other way."
- Mark Twain
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."
- Henry Ford
"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner anywhere."
- Chinese Proverb
6 min
January 31, 2022 Can you name one fundamental belief that inspires trust? How about five?
"There are only two ways to influence human behavior. You can manipulate it, or you can inspire it."
- Simon Sinek
In other words... "Arrows Out" is all about getting someone motivating you to do it. "Arrows In" is all about you being inspired to do it.
7 min
January 24, 2022 Wooden read this every day for the last 85 years of his life.
"I am not what I want to be; not what I am going to be, but I am thankful that I am better than I used to be."
- Coach John Wooden
6 min
January 17, 2022 Penguins and Light
Don't be too quick to judge someone.
Over 30 family/friends/and families battling cancer celebrate Nick's birthday.
"Dark cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that."
- Martin Luther King
5 min
January 10, 2022 Remember the Fleas
Regardless of your circumstances (horrible or great), when you focus on gratitude, your eyes will see opportunities the would have never seen otherwise.
"Gratitude illuminates the lessons from our past and inspires us with hope for our future so that we can make better choices in the moment."
6 min
January 03, 2022 ARROWS OUT!!! ONward, UPward, and OUTward!
"Gratitude unexpressed is ingratitude perceived." - LMB
“Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
- Melody Beattie
UNGRATEFUL - is being unaware or oblivious.
SOCIAL - is about respect.
APPRECIATIVE - is about acknowledgment.
EMPOWERED - is all about sustainability.
7 min
December 27, 2021 Find out what 2 words I have chosen to inspire me in 2022
"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, I have been bent and broken, but--I hope--into a better shape."
- Estella from "Great Expectations."
We all face challenges that shape the course of our lives. But that shape and that course are still ours to choose.
6 min