Good Morning: Make Sure Your Actions are...

“Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet.” ~Unknown   Good morning!   I smiled when I read this quote. I wish I could print it in neon and post it in every square acre of the planet! Some people pray to God for change or guidance. Others just want change or guidance. Either way, there is always one very important question that needs to be asked: “What are you prepared to do?” While we might desire, yearn or wish for change, if we aren’t prepared to be an active participant then we should not expect...

Good Morning: Stop “Wasting”...

“Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.” ~Harvey MacKay   Good morning!   Our time is more valuable than money. Our time is the one thing money can’t buy. If only we would protect and cherish our time like we would a winning lottery ticket. One of my mentors is a very successful CEO who has gone through vigorous, top-notch, elite training programs. When I asked him for advice, he shared that the single most...

Good Morning: Make Sure to Schedule Your...

“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”  ~Stephen Covey   Good morning!  Thanks for sending in this quote, Hope, which is a wonderful reminder to us all. Hope also shared, “I always include at least 2 short-term-to-dos from my Top 3 snapshot categories I’m concentrating on at the moment. And I have found that my life focus is changing fairly frequently at this time, so I revisit my snapshot every 3 months or so and tweak it…  Doing this allows me to really ‘see’ from the...

Good Morning: Make the Most of Each Day...

 “Much good work is lost for lack of a little more.”  ~Joyce Gearhart   Good morning!  For many readers, Friday brings a “sigh” of relief. The weekend is coming, time to relax and catch up. As we turn toward the weekend though, don’t forget to make every moment of today count. When we let our minds wander to what “is to come” we can quickly miss the important moments that are here right now.   Your turn: While anticipating what is to come, always do your best work in the moment. With each task you do or complete, ask...

Good Morning: Time is Your Most Precious...

 “Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.” ~John C. Maxwell   Good morning!  I was reading a little book on time management and the following statistics, presented by John C. Maxwell, I found to be quite enlightening: 5 minutes from our morning routine 10 minutes from our settling into work 5 minutes of idol conversation and distractions and; a daily 10 minute reduction in our lunches and break times we would gain 125 hours of time in a year!! Maxwell reminds us that that is the equivalent of 3...

Good Morning: Be Thoughtful with Your Co...

Character is the ability to carry out a decision, after the emotion of making that decision has passed. ~anonymous Submitted by Good Morning Reader Ann Marie Stout Good morning! I smiled when I read this quote--and I think many of you will nod in recognition of the truth contained in this simple sentence. How often do we make decisions based on a moment of clarity and inspiration only to find that the energy put into implementation doesn't match that original moment of inspiration? It is in these moments that character is built. When we make a decision and then follow...

Good Morning: Use Your Time Well...

"Perhaps the greatest enigma of time is that nobody has enough of it, yet we almost always succeed in wasting it. Time is different from every other resource we utilize. When we don't have money, we don't buy excess clothing. Yet when we don't have time, we still fritter it away on whatever may pop up. Perhaps the explanation behind such odd resource waste is that we don't think of time as a resource. Everybody knows that time is precious and should be utilized carefully, but few people treat time with the respect that it deserves." Pete Mockaitis author of The Student...

Good Morning: Focus on what You can Cont...

"We control what we look at. Start looking at what you can control." -Brook Noel Good morning! We are approaching the 5 year anniversary of our Good Morning newsletter. I wanted to take a brief pause this week to send a few of my favorite Good Mornings for all of our recent subscribers. Something great is going to happen again this year and I can't wait to see what it is! From January 20: Often when we desire change in our lives it is at a time when we feel completely OVERWHELMED! Because we feel overwhelmed with life, we desire change. It is a catch-22 since the...

Good Morning: Do You Listen?...

"Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend." ~Diogenes Laetius Good morning! Good listening skills are important to enhancing our relationships with family, friends and colleagues. Let's take a quick "refresher course" on the "Five Basics." RULE #1 - Listen with your whole body. When listening to your anyone, the cliche' - "actions speak louder than words" - should be remembered. Turn off the television, keep good eye contact, put down the paper or file and give the person your undivided attention. RULE #2 - Ask questions. Asking questions will show your...

Good Morning: A Formula for Hope...

"A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without vision is drudgery, a vision with a task is the hope of the world."--On the cornerstone of a church in England, dated 1730. Author unknown. Good morning! I felt so blessed to stumble across this quote that has existed in stone for centuries and traveled across oceans to be shared with us. If you take the time to read it, and really think it through, there is so much truth to the simple words. Often, we have great visions - but we do not break down the tasks to complete them. Other times we have tasks, but we...