Author: jakedavis1910

Daily Attitude Email 9 10 12

Faith is a bluebird
You see from afar
It’s for real
And as sure as the first evening star

You can’t touch it
Or buy it or wrap it up tight
But it’s there just the same
Making things turn out right

This little poem came from “The Rescuers”.

Faith is such an important part of our success in life. We believe not only that our goals are possible, but also that they are possible for us.

Make the last line of the poem your thought for today “making things turn out right”.

It will all work out in the end.

Jake

The Phrase That Pays

JD – All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. – T.E. Lawrence

JS – Do your best and forget the rest.

EB – The only place that success comes before work is the dictionary. Mark Twain

KJ – The harder I work the luckier I get. Samuel Goldman

JW – Even if you are on the right track you will get run over if you just sit there. Will Rodgers

JM – Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them more. Oscar Wilde

Everybody have a great weekend.

Jake

Friday Morning Toe Tapper

http://youtu.be/nU615FaODCg

The dreams theme reminded me of one of my favorite quotes.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. – Henry David Thoreau

For some reason that last line is something that pops into my head frequently.

Meet with success unexpected in common hours.

Positive focused action backed by faith and belief will yield those uncommon results.

Let’s make it a great day filled with those actions that bring us close to our dreams.

Jake

Daily Attitude Email 9 6 12

You cannot change your life until you change something you do every day. John Maxwell

What a simple but powerful concept.

If you want to change your life you must change something you do every day.

You can’t change your finances until you change how you handle money every day.

You can’t change your weight until you change how you make food and exercise choices every day.

You can’t change your relationships until you change how you interact every day.

You can’t change your attitude until you change how you think every day.

This quote shows the magic of starting small and building from there. Starting with that one little thing and using that success to encourage you to keep going on the next one.

What is the one little thing you can do different that will start (or continue) this process for you?

Tackle the small stuff first.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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I recently started reading "As A Man Thinketh" by James Allen on my Kindle App (it is a free book on Kindle).

I didn’t get very far because the foreword really stuck with me and I wanted to remember to send it out as a daily attitude email before I forgot about it.

Here are the two paragraphs that James Allen uses as a foreword:

Foreword

This little volume (the result of meditation and experience) is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much-written-upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory, its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that—

"They themselves are makers of themselves."

by virtue of the thoughts, which they choose and encourage; that mind is the master-weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance, and that, as they may have hitherto woven in ignorance and pain they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness.

JAMES ALLEN.

I was really struck by the mental picture of the mind as the master weaver of the garments we wear everyday.

When we look in the mirror we see these garments as we have woven them up to this point.

Stop. Take a deep breath and think about that for a minute.

Everything you see in the mirror is a result of your own weaving and creation.

All those worries and problems….woven in your own mind.

All those successes and triumphs….woven in your own mind.

And this brings me to his last sentence.

This is the best part – "they may now weave in enlightenment and happiness."

I don’t know about you, but that sounds pretty good to me.

Let’s get started.

Make it a great day.

Jake

Daily Attitude Email 9 4 12

In honor of Labor Day I thought I would share some excerpts from a speech FDR gave on Labor Day in 1941.

Here is a link to the whole speech:

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16166

“There has never been a moment in our history when Americans were not ready to stand up as free men and fight for their rights.

In times of national emergency, one fact is brought home to us, clearly and decisively—the fact that all of our rights are interdependent.

The right of freedom of worship would mean nothing without freedom of speech. And the rights of free labor as we know them today could not survive without the rights of free enterprise.

That is the indestructible bond that is between us—between all of us Americans: interdependence of interests, privileges, opportunities, responsibilities—interdependence of rights.”

What a great and important thought as we work together everyday. Our rights and our goals are interdependent. If we want ourselves to flourish we must give the best of ourselves to each other.

“American workers, American farmers, American businessmen, American church people—all of us together—have the great responsibility and the great privilege of laboring to build a democratic world on enduring foundations.

May it be said on some future Labor Day by some future President of the United States that we did our work faithfully and well.”

May it be said that we did our work faithfully and well.

What a great thought for the day as we all go about our work.

Make it a great day.

Jake

The Phrase That Pays

“Be brief on the logic and reason portion of your presentation. There are probably about a thousand facts about an automobile, but you don’t need them all to make a decision. About a half dozen will do.” — Jim Rohn

“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.” — Jim Rohn

“If we could capture the mental picture in our minds of how the future will be, given our current direction, perhaps we would become more serious about our lives.” — Jim Rohn

“Doing more is only part of the answer. The real answer lies in becoming more than we are so that our increased potential becomes an integral part of everything we do.” — Jim Rohn

“It is the small disciplines that lead to great accomplishments. When average people give care and attention to important matters, their own growth into greatness merely awaits the passage of time.” — Jim Rohn

“The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.” — Jim Rohn

No management meeting today so I used the last 6 quotes from Jim Rohn’s Facebook page since I know everyone was missing some Jim Rohn quotes.

If you like any of the Jim Rohn stuff I have sent over the years, like his Facebook page. They usually post a couple of good quotes a day.

Jake

Friday Morning Toe Tapper

http://youtu.be/og_R1BqC-kA

Starts kind of slow, but it ends with lots of enthusiasm.

The lyrics to this one are so positive I thought I would just paste them below.

Make it a great Friday.

Jake

I Have Confidence in Me from The Sound of Music

What will this day be like, I wonder
What will my future be, I wonder
It could be so exciting
To be out to the world, to be free
My heart should be wildly rejoicing
Oh, what’s the matter with me
I’ve always long for adventure
To do the things I’ve never dared
And here I’m pleasing adventure
Then why am I so scared??
A captain with seven children
What so fearsome about that
Oh, I must stop this doubts, all this worries
If I don’t I just know I’ll turn back
I must dream of the things I am seeking
I am seeking the courage I lack
The courage to serve them with reliance
Face my mistakes without defiance
Show them I’m worthy
And while I show them, I’ll show me…….
So let them bring on all their problems
I’ll do better than my best
I have confidence they’ll put me to the test
But I’ll make them see I have confidence in me
Somehow I will impress them
I will be firm but kind
And all those children, heaven bless them
They will look up to me and mind me
With each step I’m almost certain
Everything will turn out find
I have confidence, the world can all be mine
They’ll have to agree I have confidence in me
I have confidence in sunshine
I have confidence in rain
I have confidence that spring will come again
Besides which you see I have confidence in me
Strength doesn’t lie in numbers
Strength doesn’t lie in wealth
Strength lies in nights of peaceful slumbers
When you wake up, wake up!
It’s healthy
All I trust I leave my heart to
All I trust becomes my own
I have confidence, in confidence alone
(Oh help……..)
I have confidence, in confidence alone
Besides which you see I have confidence in me

Daily Attitude Email 8 30 12

Learn to say no so your yes has some oomph.

I can’t remember where I saw this quote, but I think it strikes at the core of something a lot of us struggle with.

We love helping people. We get known for helping people. People start asking for help. We continually say yes. We end up spread too thin and aren’t helping anyone.

This is another of those areas of life that require some wisdom. Wisdom to know what to say yes to and what to say no to. Wisdom to know when someone else might be better served with a no instead of a yes.

In true daily attitude email fashion, there is a positive side to this.

Learn how to wisely say no and your yes’s will mean so much more.

You will be able to pour more of yourself into those things you care about. You will make a bigger impact when you do say yes.

You will be less frustrated by your inability to do everything for everyone.

Many of you have heard me say "we are all the same amount of busy, time is passing at the same rate for all of us."

And therein lies the crux of the problem. Time is passing. Our days will end up full. Every single one of them.

We must go about the hard work of choosing our priorities for those days and lining up our activities to match those priorities.

I know this is a hard one. I see lots of people (including myself) struggle with this one everyday.

But a life well lived is worth it. Making a difference in the lives of those we care about it worth it. Making an impact in those organizations or causes we believe in is worth it.

Make it a great day.

Jake

PS – Although making the hard choices in life seems daunting, be thankful. Thankful for the opportunity to make some of those choices. Thankful for the time you have. Thankful for the opportunity to serve others.

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People need to be reminded more than they need to be instructed. Samuel Johnson

One of the speakers from the Global Leadership Summit used this quote and it reminded me of the daily attitude emails.

It reminded me that when you read this in the morning (I can just picture everyone anxiously looking at their inbox with anticipation every morning), you most likely already know more about what I am writing about than I do.

Hopefully I am providing a reminder of those things you already know.

I know this to be true because of some of the emails and comments I received in response to daily attitude emails.

“Did you write that one for me?”

“That was just what I needed.”

“Thanks for the reminder this morning.”

As much as I would like to pretend that I am brilliant in writing these emails, they are really just my own version of some already existing concept.

And my sincere hope is that they can serve as a reminder or inspiration for you to move your life in a positive direction.

Make it a great day.

Jake