JD – I can’t wait to see Mathy in yellow tights.

EB – Trust is knowing that when a team member does push you, they’re doing because they care about the team. – Patrick Lencioni

JW – If everything is important, then nothing is. – Patrick Lencioni

KJ – Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.

JS – Hello, old friend, it’s good to see you.

JM -The hero is valorous because he stands up to every threat to his values. – Andrew Bernstein

I loved JM’s quote this morning. Made me want to read whatever book that came out of.

One of the reasons that books and movies are so effective at showing us what valor can look like is that it is easier to understand valor when it is pictured as a hero on his white horse fighting the dragon that is destroying the village.

In real life it usually isn’t that easy.

Valor isn’t obvious when we see a young mom at the store. We don’t get the background that her husband is gone, sick, struggling in some way and it took all she had this morning to get to the store and buy food for the kids.

Valor isn’t obvious when we see the old man sitting alone at the table next to us at lunch. We don’t see his struggle to go on every day after his wife passed away a year ago.

Valor isn’t obvious when we look at the waitress serving our lunch. We don’t see her struggle with physical pain but still go to work on her feet all day to make a living.

Words like valor don’t get thrown around a lot, but valor is all around us.

It would be great to make words like valor, character, faith, hope, courage and other inspiring words part of our regular vocabulary. Imagine how inspired you would be at the end of a day, a week, a year in which you focused on finding these traits (and others like them) in others and living them out yourself.

Make it a great day.

Jake