Words of Wisdom from Monday Morning Choices
I came across a terrific little self help book a few months ago called Monday Morning Choices by David Cottrell. I have read a number of similar books before and although they have all provided various levels of motivating and helpful content, they are all on a shelf or in a box in the attic unremembered. Monday Morning Choices however, has stuck with me.
Essentially the book details a series of choices that we all need to make, you guessed it, every Monday morning. There are 12 choices broken down in Personal, Action and Investment choices. I won’t summarize those for you here. but thought I would provide a few key thoughts and quotes. I hope you find these as motivating and inspirational as I have:
- My success increases or decreases in value every day on the basis of my choices
- We must believe that what we are doing is important enough to stay the course
- Unsuccessful people quit before they have a chance to succeed
- Every day, ask: Did I get any closer to accomplishing my goals today or did I lose ground?
- Placing blame only adds to our stress because it puts someone else in control of the problem
- The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth. And, once we get in a rut we must stop digging. Intending to get out of a rut does not count.
- There are only two things in life, reasons and results and reasons simply don’t count
- Your courage is ultimately measured by how much it takes to discourage you
- You must allow your attitude to control conditions rather than letting conditions control your attitude
- If you want to be happy, put your effort into controlling the sail not the wind
And a few quotes:
- You can’t build a reputation on what you are gong to do: Henry Ford
- Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers
- Mistakes are easy, mistakes are inevitable but there is no mistake as great as the the mistake of not going on. William Blake
And so my friends, move forward no matter what.
Have a great week.
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