Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

"What you do should dictate how you feel. Not the opposite."

"Gratitude expressed is gratitude expanded."

Who did I make invisible today, and what will I do about it tomorrow?

You can't always change the world--but you can always change someone's world.

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”

"There is no app for building patience."

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"You can't microwave trust. You can't instant-message intimacy."

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I remember, involve me and I learn.”

“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

When we judge too quickly, we risk missing extraordinary people, extraordinary lessons, and extraordinary opportunities.

Gratitude in the now. Choices for the future. Ripples for generations.

One small shift you can make this week to change the tone of your family, business, and/or community.

‘Losers assemble in small groups and complain about the coaches and other players. Winners assemble as a team and find ways to win.’

Remember, "We rise when lifting others."

Each time we pause before reacting, we stack one more positive moment.

“Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”

Arthur C. Brooks once said, “Kindness and warm-heartedness are the antivenom for the poisonous contempt coursing through the veins of our political discourse.”

Just because you disagree doesn't mean you have to be disagreeable.

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”

“You don’t have to wait for the rainbow to enjoy the rain.”

"Love is the ‘why’ of the leaders that can bring America back together, and of all of us in our families and communities.”

"The Enemy of Thriving is Arriving."

"Live life deliberately- no finish lines."

"Knowing your 'So That' will inspire others to find their own 'So That'.

“Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.”

We have God-given rights which bring with them obligations, which, when properly honored, become opportunities.

An indigenous elder of Cherokee descent, Stan Rushworth, reminded us of the difference between a Western settler mindset of "I have rights" and an indigenous mindset of "I have obligations." Instead of thinking, 'My rights entitle me,' what if we choose to think that we are born with obligations— not rights —to serve past, present, and future generations?

"Positivity attracts courage, solutions, and people who lift us higher. Who you believe yourself to be is who you become."

“Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.”

“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.”

Here is a hint- it is not your decisions!

"Character is the ability to carry out a worthwhile decision long after the decision has passed."

"Our thoughts determine our actions, our actions determine our habits, our habits determine our character, and our character determines our eternal destiny."