Bad days happen So let them serve as a reminder to give thanks  Give thanks for life, for movement, for thoughts, for readings  What else can we be grateful for? Think of all the things.  Even the little things  Someone smiled at me or held the door for me The gift to breathe. Gratitude spreads … Continue reading 77. Bad Days Happen

Accomplishments  When we ask someone what an accomplishment to them would be what do we hear?  “My name was in the newspaper”  “I became mayor”  “I bought and sold property for a profit”  “I ran 50 miles”  These are accomplishments - maybe even great ones  But what is an accomplishment? It’s the successful completion of … Continue reading 76. What was your last accomplishment?

Preferences. We all have them… “Why would I pay someone to do it when I can do it myself?” Because I love my life and appreciate my time and can pay someone else for their time to do it so I can do other things  “Why would I do it myself when i can pay … Continue reading 75. Which one are you?

“I’m an underpaid bricklayer who spends my days wasting my time, placing brick on top of brick” “I’m the luckiest person in the world, I get to be a part of important and beautiful pieces of architecture and help turn simple pieces of brick into magnificent buildings.” Same situation, two different points of view.  These … Continue reading 74. Two different points of view

There’s always work to be done  It’s so easy to get caught in the day to day, task to task Trying to get all of our things done... That’s in an ideal world. But we don’t live in an ideal world,  There’s always going to be things to get done, always going to be work … Continue reading 73. “There’s always going to be work to do”

We’ve all heard the principle seek first to understand then to be understood  Stephen Covey talked about that in his 7 habits book (Specifically habit 5)  Logically it seems easy at first glance, but how many of us really do it? If someone does something we don’t like or crosses our line, we immediately get … Continue reading 72. Seeking First to Understand, Really

How many times do we blame others?  When things don’t go as planned, something is missing or broken, finances are out of whack, and the list goes on.  The funny thing is - the blame game is so commonplace that we’re looked at as an alien if we don’t partake in the blames.  Putting the … Continue reading 71. Blame Game

“Someday I’ll be happy”  This is what most people say - we tell ourselves we’ll be happy when we get out of debt, get our business off the ground, that promotion, retire, or anything else that we say.  Then we get frustrated where we are at - the days become a slog,  but someday we’ll … Continue reading 70. Happiness is the way

Pay ourselves first  We hear all the time people live paycheck to paycheck And another - people don’t have a retirement plan.. They’ve missed this one key concept in life And if they made it a habit, they would live a drastically different life in the years to come.  The key concept is paying ourselves … Continue reading 69. Pay ourselves first

Summit  Imagine hiking a mountain range The point is to get to the top of each mountain So we start at the bottom, climb up, reach the summit, climb back down and repeat until we complete all the mountain summits.  Notice the rhythm → climb up, summit, climb down.  It’s not summit, summit, summit.  Life … Continue reading 68. High, Low