Good Morning – Going Further with ...

"To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." - Quote on the importance of "gratitude" by Johannes A. Gaertner Good morning! Yvette included this thoughtful note with her quote: I am grateful for the inspiration you send me each morning. You do a wonderful job with your writing. Thank you for helping me start my day with a smile. That is the first "great" thing that happens which helps lead to more great things throughout the day! Thank you Yvette, I am grateful for your kindness...

Embrace chance, change and challenge...

Why not go out on a limb? That’s where all the fruit is”—Will Rogers Good morning! Take a moment to think about the times in your life when you felt the most esteemed, proud, excited, and fulfilled. What happened to create those feelings? Were you going through your day on auto-pilot and just doing the same-old, same-old? Or was something different? I am going to take a wild guess that something was different. I am going to guess that when you felt that way, it was because you had reached further, discovered something new, challenged yourself, or taken a chance. And...

Creating A Goal Map...

>Identifying goals and priorities is vital to a successfully balanced life. Once when presenting a keynote in Washington at the state mental health conference, I asked a room of professionals the following question and gave them 30 seconds to respond. >What are the three driving motivators (priorities) for this season of your life? Amazingly, only several of the 300 hundred attendees were able to complete the task. Most people have been asked to set goals at one point or another. In a newly released survey of 1012 Americans, only 45% of Americans now say they...