I know I am a day late and a dollar short here but in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday on Sunday below are the top 30 Dr. Seuss quotes.

Make it a great day.

Jake

Top 30 Dr. Seuss Quotes
1. Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. 2. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
3. Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
4. Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
5. You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
6. Think and wonder, wonder and think.
7. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So. get on your way. 8. Unless!
9. THINK! You can think any THINK that you wish.
10. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
11. You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. 12. You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?
13. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. 14. It is better to know how to learn than to know.
15. Everything stinks till it’s finished.
16. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

17. A person’s a person, no matter how small.
18. I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
19. Only you can control your future.
20. Be awesome! Be a book nut!
21. Be who you are and say what you mean. Because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind. 22. Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!
23. It’s opener, out there, in the wide, open air.
24. Teeth are always in style.
25. Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
26. Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed. 27. From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
28. Step with care and great tact. And remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.
29. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
30. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go.​

Don’t sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself. – Jim Rohn

I debated on whether or not to send out this quote as it is a little harsh in its tone.

I decided to send it out because I think the message is that important.

At some point we will all be presented the opportunity to sell out our virtues and values in exchange for something else tempting.

Jim’s reminder is that Judas did get the money. He got what he wanted in the short run. The exchange occurred.

But it wasn’t worth it. He got a bad deal. He exchanged his virtues and values for forty pieces of silver. Those same forty pieces of silver would never buy those virtues and values.

Is there something in your life where you are making a bad exchange?

Something where you are exchanging your values and virtues in exchange for something that seems tempting, but isn’t worth the price you are paying?

If you aren’t already, you will likely be tempted at some point in the future. Now is the time to put your true values and virtues into perspective so those temptations can be properly weighed against their cost.

Write down your personal why or mission statement

Write out your family’s values.

Make it clear what your values are worth. That way forty pieces of silver will seem like what they really are…meaningless compared to your values.

Make it a great day.

Jake ​

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

This question popped into my head recently, I added to my list of ideas for the daily attitude email and it has been haunting me ever since.

At first glance, it didn’t seem like too hard of a question to answer, but after looking at it for a couple of weeks the answers seem harder and harder to find.

Think of those moments in your life when you let fear get in the way.

What would you do if you weren’t afraid of what others might think?

What would you ask for if you weren’t afraid of being rejected?

What would you risk if you weren’t afraid of the blow to your ego?

What goal would you take on if you weren’t afraid to fail?

What would you do if you weren’t afraid?

Maybe it’s unrealistic to tackle all of these things at once and conquer all your fears by the end of the day.

Maybe just try one. Find one thing where you were letting fear hold you back and push through. Decide to take the plunge.

Make it a great day.

Jake ​

​​​

http://youtu.be/By86PcLufOU

Hard not to start your day off right when it starts with NKOTB.

There are points in life when we just hang tough.

As long as you don’t quit, you always make it through.

Make it a great day.

Jake​

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. – Henry Ford

In our last Town Hall, Erik mentioned that we are likely to feel more competitive pressure over the years to come.

Over the last couple of weeks I have been playing basketball on Wednesday nights.

Last night, I came to a realization.

Competition is fun. It is fun to compete. It is fun to win. It’s hard to lose, but fun to get right back up and try again.

Competition can make us better. Both individually and as collective at Mavidea.

Henry Ford’s example of shaving away at costs is just one example.

Competition will force us to be more creative.

Competition will force us to become more nimble.

Competition will force us to become more efficient.

Competition will force us to remove those rough edges and deliver a better service.

Let’s all embrace competition. Let’s embrace the opportunity to enter into the arena and do our best.

Make it a great day.

Jake

"Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention." — Jim Rohn

I was part of an interesting conversation yesterday where we were discussing how to make customers feel “loved”.

A core element that ran through the conversation was giving them your undivided attention.

As technology, social media and the pace of life push us to move from task to task as quickly as possible, taking the time to give someone your undivided attention stands out more and more.

Think of the last time someone gave you their undivided attention. How did that make you feel?

Today, challenge yourself to make others feel that same way.

Each time that you are in a conversation with someone give them your attention. No phones, computer or other distractions; just your focused attention.

I have a sneaky suspicion that if you do this, you will end the day thinking “wow, that was a great day”.

Make it a great day.

Jake

http://success.com/article/8-traits-of-healthy-relationships

8 traits of a healthy relationship by Jim Rohn.

There are some really great thoughts in hear, so I encourage you to read the whole thing.

For those that don’t want to read the whole thing, here they are:

1. Love

2. Serving heart

3. Honest communication

4. Friendliness

5. Patience

6. Loyalty

7. A common purpose

8. Fun

Make it a great day.

Jake

Thought we could all use a little serenity to start the week.

Make it a great day.

Jake

The Serenity Prayer

The full text of the original "Serenity Prayer" written by Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)

GOD, grant me the serenity

to accept the things

I cannot change,

Courage to change the

things I can, and the

wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardship as the

pathway to peace.

Taking, as He did, this

sinful world as it is,

not as I would have it.

Trusting that He will make

all things right if I

surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy

in this life, and supremely

happy with Him forever in

the next.

Amen

EB – Control your own destiny or someone else will. – Jack Welch

JW – Either you run the day or the day runs you. – Jim Rohn

MS – Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

JD – Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts. – Nikki Giovanni

The quote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe illustrates what I think is the major struggle that most people have when it comes to time and time management.

We all intuitively know that we should spend our time on what’s most important. And we all intuitively know that we spend too much time on the things that matter least.

But I continue to spend time on things that don’t really matter. Why?

It seems hard.

It seems hard to say no to some things in order to say yes to others.

It seems hard to know what is and isn’t important.

Here are some ideas to maybe make it a little easier:

Spend some time setting priorities and then let others know. Share your top goals and mission/purpose statement with those you care about.

This is also why it is so important to be always learning and growing. Always refining your definition of what is and isn’t important.

Make it a great day doing what matters most to you.

Jake

http://vimeo.com/39484374

This is a great video and song illustrating the five love languages from Gary Chapman. (If you want to find out more or take the quiz, here is the site: http://www.5lovelanguages.com/.)

The tool and this concept speaks to something really important for each of us.

We must know ourselves. We must seek to know those we care about more deeply.

Tools like this can help us understand ourselves and why we do what we do. Not so that we can have an excuse for acting in whatever way we want, but so that we can understand more fully and act more wisely.

Tools like this also help us with those we love. Understanding them allows for better relationships.

I encourage you to take the quiz, share the results with those you love and get them to take so that you can review their results.

But most of all, I encourage you to think of those who are important to you and how you can love them the way they want to be loved.

Make it a great day.

Jake