Every day is a new life to a wise man.
Another email in the "seize the day" category.
Each day we have the opportunity to begin anew.
To begin anew while leveraging the lessons of the past.
To begin anew while seeing a clearer picture of our future.
Treat today as a new life. One full of opportunity, abundance and possibility.
And make it a great day.
Jake
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness. – Jim Rohn
Yesterday was the first of two training sessions here at Mavidea.
The core concept: the words we choose matter.
Replacing negative words with positive words will change the outcome of the conversations we are having.
It was easy to see how this can help us and our customers here at Mavidea.
And I hope that everyone also picked up on something else: it can drastically
improve the rest of your life as well.
In one of his seminars Jim Rohn talks about how sometimes a person’s positive vocabulary is so small that they end up in prison cell to match it.
That’s how small their view on the world is and how much of a difference words can make.
Let’s use this reminder to work on vocabulary and the words we choose. Let’s feed our minds more positive words and create a more positive light for us and others to see.
Make it a great day.
Jake
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves – to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today. – Stewart Johnson
I thought this quote was a great follow up to yesterday’s email about making the most of your todays
When we look at our todays and how they are spent, comparing to others is not the benchmark.
Our benchmark should be the inherent possibilities and opportunities that lie within ourselves.
One of my favorite things about sports was the process of finding out that I was actually capable of more than I thought.
I could always run faster or play better than I thought I was capable of.
I’m sure there were points in time where I thought this was because I was so special and talented, but a little maturity and age has cured me of that.
We ALL are capable of so much more than we can imagine.
Make it a great day.
Jake
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence:
The bliss of growth;
The glory of action;
The splendor of achievement;
For yesterday is but a dream,
And tomorrow is only a vision;
But today, well lived, makes every yesterday
a dream of happiness,
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Reading "How To Stop Worrying" by Dale Carnegie and the first section is about not letting the regrets of the past or the worries about tomorrow ruin your todays.
This short poem really summarized it all very well.
Today is the place where everything happens.
All of your opportunity lies in today.
String together a bunch of great todays and before you know you will have lived a great life.
Let’s get started.
Make it a great today.
Jake
Maggie randomly requested to watch and listen to this one last night.
I was thinking afterwards how amazing it is that a silly song could bring together a little 7 year old and an Olympic swim team that was in China.
And this reminded me of a conversation I had once where someone smarter than me was explaining to me the power of music as a "universal language".
How true. Somehow it (maybe this song doesn’t quite reach out to everyone) reaches out to that part of all of us that is uniquely human. Created in a special way, for a special purpose.
Make it a great day.
Jake
"I have no one else’s judgment to use". Andrew Wiggin
This line was in a book I was reading and it stuck out to me.
It was in response to someone questioning his judgment.
It struck me how quickly we can be in dismissing someone else’s judgment. When, if we were them, we would make the exact same decision.
Not that we should be tolerant of or allow the bad judgment of others to ruin our lives, just that by being more understanding and empathetic we can understand their process and how to work alongside others more cohesively.
It also struck me that I can only use my judgment as well. In that way I am limited.
So, what to do with my limitation?
Build it up. Exercise my judgment muscles.
Read books, take classes, take on more decision making and responsibility.
Make it a great day.
Jake
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”-Maya Angelou
What a great, simple thought that can change your life.
How do people feel when you’ve left the room?
How does the waitress feel after waiting on your table?
How does your doctor feel after having you as a patient?
We have many opportunities to change how others feel as we go throughout our day. Why not make sure the answer to all of the questions above is something of value: loved, happy, listened to, blessed, thankful, peaceful, etc.
Make it a great day.
Jake
“God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn’t. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down.”
― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
What a powerful thought.
Regardless of where you stand on believing in God and whether or not God places trials in our lives to test us, life will test you at some point.
The older I get the more I wonder how many of my "temples" are really houses of cards.
We see others whose metaphorical card houses have been toppled and quickly jump to conclusions about what they may have done wrong, not noticing we are balancing precariously in a card house ourselves.
But where’s the positive spin, Jake?
First, showing empathy for the weaknesses and follies of others can help us from meeting that same fate.
Second, seeing our house of cards for what it is before it falls can save us a whole lot of heartache.
Take a look at what you are building your beliefs and habits from to make sure they are built on solid footing.
Make it a great day.
Jake
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It sure feels like spring has officially sprung.
In this video Jim Rohn talks about making the most of our springs. He says we are only given a handful of them.
As the season changes and life moves forward, take it as a reminder that you only have so many seasons and your job is to make the most of them.
Make it a great day.
Jake
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