Reflecting On Our Inner Dialogue

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! And Happy Friday! Hard to believe it, but we are already on the tail end of this month. 12 days left including today. On a daily basis, we can attribute a large part of our happiness to the internal dialogue we are having. Mary Morrisey explains that, according to scientists, […]

Time To Enrich Our Lives

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! “Your work should enrich your spirit.” – 8,789 Words of Wisdom “[T]oday would be a great day to pause and ask, ‘Deep down inside of me, what really matters? What are one or two or three things that I want to be sure gets fit into the core and center […]

Say Thank You

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GREAT Monday morning, ladies and gentlemen! “With Gratitude, you become thankful for all things at all times. You begin to notice the 98 percent of your life that is going great instead of the 1 or 2 percent of your life that is difficult. When you practice gratitude, your efforts are rewarded with a more […]

Know Where You Intend To Be

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Happy Friday, ladies and gentlemen! “You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.”– Michael Jordan In 2011, I first heard the story of Bruce Lee’s 1969 mission/vision statement – a short note to himself, written almost as a contract. “My Definite Chief Aim.” The note was written when he was 28 […]

Surround Yourself With Inspiration

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! My cousin, when he was 12 years old, said to me “Pastor said if you are the smartest one in your group of friends, you need to find a new group of friends.” This is probably reasonably, if not wholly, true for many other character traits as well. We should surround […]

Listening is Learning

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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen! “Listen, or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.” – American Indian proverb One of the most important pieces of effective communication is listening. Not hearing, but listening. Too often we get caught up in ourselves – Our own thoughts, opinions, views, experiences. We forget to listen to what is going […]

Values of Commitment

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Good morning, ladies gentlemen! “The worker who is paid to keep the sheep is different from the shepherd. The paid worker does not own the sheep. So when he sees a wold coming, he runs away and leaves the sheep alone. Then the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them. The man runs away because […]

Growth and Maturation

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Good Monday morning! One thing I sincerely enjoy about sending out this email each day is that I rarely know who is going to be affected by it. It goes out to athletes and non athletes. It goes out to parents of college students and parents of toddlers. It goes out to high school students […]

It’s Time To Move!

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Happy Friday, ladies and gents! “Often the beginning of our spiritual journey is dissatisfaction, but we don’t see it as part of something that leads to a greater good.  Instead, we view our discontent as misery and pain.  It is actually much more. Dissatisfaction and discontent have a message for us.  They tell us to move from our current condition […]

Teaching How To Think

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Good morning! Your children are not your children… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams… You are the bows […]

Pursuing Greatness

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Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. – Philip Chesterfield Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen! I spent last night working with a young athlete that had a dream and a goal to play collegiate lacrosse. In recent weeks he’s found that his dream may very well be over, and his passion for […]

Show Your Appreciation

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I find it rather fitting that Veteran’s day should fall in the same month as Thanksgiving. On Veteran’s Day, it’s customary to remember, honor, and thank the men and women that have served our country and maintained our freedoms; many of whom have done so at the cost of their own lives. They have sacrificed […]