“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.” ~ Og Mandino

Start your day off right.

Let your first hour set the theme for the day.

How do your days usually start?

Try it today to make your first hour a great one.

Read something inspirational.

Exercise.

Hug and kiss your loved ones.

Say a prayer of thanks for all your blessings.

Knock something off your to do list.

Whatever would be a great start to the day for you, do it.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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Not really what the song is about but we all have a bunch of little steps to take to get where we want to go.

Jim Rohn talks about how the distance between our current direction and a new one is a small one.

In order to chart a new course we have to take that first small step.

Jim says we can’t change our destination overnight but we can change our direction.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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We did it! Today marks the 13th anniversary of the daily attitude email.

What started off as a little pick me up at the beginning of the day for the Mavidea sales team has turned in a habit that’s lasted for 13 years.

I really didn’t mean for it to be something I did for this long. I really just wanted to start my day and a few team members day off by thinking of something positive and helpful.

It’s become a part of my life and (I hope) helped a few others along the way.

What’s something small you could start doing that would build a good habit in your life?

Something you could use to build the habit of spending at least a few moments every day thinking about something positive and helpful?

Thank you for allowing me the space to email you every day. Without this email group, I don’t know that I would have stuck with it this long. Thank you for putting up with the emails with grammatical errors and nonsensical statements. Thanks for responding with your thoughts and positive ideas. Thank you for reading along as I work to puzzle together my ideas about how to be more positive and thoughtful.

My sincere hope is that I can helpful to you in some small way. To have made your day brighter than it might otherwise have been.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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I’ve been listening to an audiobook about a soldier injured in Afghanistan. He had burns over 85% of his body.

This is the second book I’ve read about someone who had survived significant burns. Both tell of the grueling recovery and the difficult personal moments.

Something interesting from both stories is that both ended up significantly disfigured.

Both seemed to have gotten past that and found a group of people around them that love them unconditionally.

I left both stories convinced that it’s too easy to fall into the trap of how we look, how we dress and how we appear on the outside to those around us.

When both of these men were stripped of these trappings they seemed to have found truer and deeper relationships with those that remained.

If you ask most of us if beauty is on the inside, we’d probably say yes. If you asked us if we thought accumulating stuff to impress others was a good idea, we’d say no.

But then we’d probably go back to buying more stuff and spending a little too much time thinking about our clothes and how we look.

The path to more contentment lies elsewhere. In real, loving relationships with people that would love us if we were covered in scars.

The truth is that we are all full of imperfections, they just aren’t as easy to see as the scars on somebody who has survived significant burns.

And all of us have someone in our lives who loves us anyway. Let’s spend more time focused on that than impressing people who probably aren’t even paying attention anyway.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. – Jim Rohn

Been listening to Jim Rohn again lately and this one stood out.

As I get older I am experiencing more clearly this quote.

Areas where I’ve been disciplined and areas where I have let myself down.

The real kicker is to watch others (especially your kids) make these choices for themselves. Knowing they will have both victory and defeat because of the choices they make today.

Thank you captain obvious. That was very helpful.

Maybe the point is to pick something and be more disciplined about it. Today.

Jim suggests starting with an apple a day or a walk around the block or reading for 30 minutes. The important thing is deciding to be the kind of person who is disciplined.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. – Edmund Burke

Monday morning motivation for everyone – get to work on the little that you have in front of you.

Get started.

No delay.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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Joy!

Make sure to seek some out today.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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You have to go to success, it won’t come to you.

This is my paraphrase from a book I’ve been listening to.

The Bible talks a lot about seeking and finding, ask and it will be given, and knock and the door will be opened.

They all involve us taking the first step.

The Bible also includes a great word picture (someone help me find these verses) about us taking steps toward God and he will step towards us.

Faith means taking the first step. Believing that some alternate view of how things could be is possible for us.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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WWJD

What would Jesus do?

This simple abbreviation that has made its way onto everything from bracelets to tattoos is a reminder of an important part of the success process.

In order to become successful and achieve something we have yet to accomplish, we must act in ways that are different than how we currently act.

One of the ways of understanding how to act differently is to think in context of how someone else would act in a similar situation. In this example, Christians work to act in a way similar to how Jesus would in a similar situation.

Think about something in your life that you would like to achieve or do differently than you do today.

Want to lose weight? What would a skinny person do?

Want to become physically fit? What would an athlete do?

Want to become wealthy? What would a wealthy person do?

Want to become more self-disciplined? What would an achiever do?

Whatever your goals in life, I can assure you that there is someone out there who has done it before.

We need only seek out the stories of those people and emulate what they have done in order to have similar results. Find a book, an audio recording or a training course from someone to model yourself after and study it. Don’t just read or listen, study it.

Start the journey today of studying someone that has been succesful where you want to be successful.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. – E. Joseph Cossman

A while back we watched a documentary that followed around Ed Sheeran.

His wife made an interesting comment about him basically saying that he doesn’t see the obstacles. He just sees what he wants to do and does it.

This really stood out to me.

How many times do you get hung up on the “good” reasons why you shouldn’t do that thing that would be really cool and fun?

How often do you take your eyes off the goal to look at the obstacles?

Spend today thinking about where you want to go, not what is in the way.

Make it a great day.

Jake

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