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MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 510 Time is flying by. At some point, life starts taking more than it gives. We need to be keenly aware of this and focus our attention on the little things. As the saying goes, Enjoy the little things in life, because one day we’ll look back and realize they were the big things. Today is the best day of our life. Yesterday was as well. Same thing for tomorrow. Let’s appreciate everything and everyone in our life and not take anything for gra...nted. Let’s take inventory of what truly matters. We have our health, our family and our faith. Let’s lift others up and we will be lifted up in return. There is no time like the present. Remember that today is a gift which is why it is called the present. Here’s to the next 30 years. Let’s appreciate the time we have and the people we have in our lives and keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... You’re not stuck. You’re just committed to certain patterns of behavior because they helped you in the past. Now these behaviors have become more harmful than helpful. The reason why you can’t move forward is because you keep applying an old formula to a new level of your life. Change the formula to get a different result. Emily Maroutian GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Love what you have before life teaches you to love what you lost. Author unknown Your peace is more important than driving yourself crazy trying to understand why something happened the way it did. Let it go. Author unknown The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates The world of limitations is in your past. Anything can be achieved in today’s world. Author unknown The world around you matters little to your wellbeing. What matters is your relationship to the world around you. Author unknown This week, let’s appreciate the little things!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 509 It’s Monday and time to recognize all the positive that is around us. How many times have we been in the best mood and something good happens next? We end up having the best day. It happens all the time. It’s amazing how thoughts become things. It is a simple concept but so powerful. It’s the core behind the law of attraction. This law states that like attracts like. In our world, most people are thinking about what they don’t want a...nd then wonder why it keeps showing up. Let’s change the way we think today. We need to put positive thoughts in our head. We need to feel good and focus on what’s positive. We attract everything that comes into our lives. Right now, we are attracting whatever is going on in our minds. Everything around us right now both good and bad, we attracted. Let’s see ourselves living in abundance and we will attract it. If we are positive in our thoughts and actions, then we will attract positive people and things into our lives. What we think, what we feel and what we manifest is always a match. Let’s shift our thoughts to ones of gratitude. The famous saying about the attitude of gratitude tells us that whatever we think about and thank about we bring about. Gratitude will always bring more into our lives. Let’s visualize what we want in our lives. We need to go a step further and feel the love and joy of having what we visualize. When we start to change our thoughts to feelings that are positive, that’s when everything will start to align. The law of attraction is real, and it starts with us. Always remember that happiness is an inside job and thoughts become things. Stay positive and keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy until you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It will only come from you. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Positive thinking won’t let you do anything, but it will let you do everything better than negative thinking will. Zig Ziglar Being around the right people is the biggest success hack in the world. Anonymous Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. Norman Vincent Peale Make your happiness and personal growth a priority in your life. The more you take care of yourself, the more you can take care of others. Anonymous Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. Anonymous This week, focus on what’s positive!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 508 Every now and then, we stop and take inventory of where we are in life. The problem most of us have when taking inventory is what we choose to value and what we choose to ignore. Most people when taking inventory look at their possessions. Is the car a newer model? Is the house large enough? How is the bank account? How do we compare to the Jones’? We want to be rich someday. What does it mean to be rich? Is it strictly financial? ...Continue reading

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 506 There are some things that we go to school for years to learn. We spend thousands of dollars to improve ourselves. Does having the initials PHD or Esq. next to our name mean we are guaranteed success. The answer is no. No matter where we start in life, it’s up to us to pull ourselves up that ladder. We can try to take shortcuts or we can do it the right way. Taking shortcuts includes trying to step over other people to get where we want to ...be or trying to make someone look bad in order to make our self look good. Short term success will not lead to a life of happiness. People don’t forget. They will work with us if they have to, but they would much rather work with us because they want to. The biggest life hack is being an honest, good, nice person. People are drawn to kindness. It’s the one thing that everyone can respect and the thing that will last long after the initial ebbs and flows of emotions melt away. Kindness leads to friendships and friendships lead to networks. Good people doing good for others not because they have to but because they want to. That’s a recipe for success. A network of like minded, kind people leads to a greater net worth. When we add good on top of good, we end up with great. This week, when we find ourselves faced with the choice of being kind or being ruthless, choose kindness everyday, and twice on Sunday. It costs nothing to be a nice person, but the rewards are priceless. Keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... Today I will Wake up with a grateful heart. Count my blessings. Help someone in need. Share kindness. Let go of what I can’t control. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Be yourself but be your best self. Author unknown Your greatest contribution may not be something you do but someone you raise. Author unknown A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected. Author unknown Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary. Author unknown A person becomes 10 times more attractive not by their looks but by their acts of kindness, love, respect, honesty, and loyalty the show. Author unknown This week choose kindness everyday and twice on Sunday!!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 505 This is the start of the first full week of 2021. As with every year, we come into the new year full of resolutions. We start a diet, we historically go to the gym, we get refocused on our careers. We need to be careful not to swing the pendulum too far from where it is right now. We are naturally wired a certain way. While trying to change who we are and what we do is a natural goal for self-improvement, drastically changing too fast ...is what ultimately doesn’t allow us to achieve this long term change. We need to slowly work on change and improvement. At our age, anything drastic doesn’t last. If we truly want lasting change, then let’s slowly implement a routine that will get us there. We did not get where we are at overnight. Why then do we believe we can make changes overnight? We need to minimize the potential for quick burn out or we will become discouraged due to the unrealistic expectations we have set for ourselves. Let’s choose one thing and work on that one thing. As always, let’s start the new year by planning our vacations for the year now and then plan our business around that. We will always be busy so plan future vacations today. Family first always. We want more than to simply make a living. We want to make a life for ourselves and our families. The one word that we need to focus on as we make some changes in our lives is balance. Let’s find that perfect balance of work and relaxation. Let’s make this year’s goal one where we strive to find peace and harmony in our lives. Let’s not only focus on success or failure. Let’s focus on doing the best we can do in each aspect of our life and in return, we will achieve true success with our career and our family. Keep moving forward and have a phenomenal 2021!! ENCOURAGEMENT... You’re not stuck. You’re just committed to certain patterns of behavior because they helped you in the past. Now these behaviors have become more harmful than helpful. The reason why you can’t move forward is because you keep applying an old formula to a new level of your life. Change the formula to get a different result. Emily Maroutian GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining. Anne Lamott If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then begin by realizing that you are the author and every day you have the opportunity to write a new page. Mark Houlahan Be weird. Be random. Be who you are. Because you never know who would love the person you hide. Author unknown I have decided to be happy, because it is good for my health. Author unknown This week, let’s make 2021 the most amazing year!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 502 One of the most beloved movies of all time is It’s a wonderful Life. It serves as our annual reminder about what truly matters in life. We see Old man Potter miserable while he sits on his empire with no friends and we see George Bailey struggle as he thinks his life has passed by and he has not left his mark. We will all come to a point in our lives where we question if we make a difference? Have we left our mark or done enough? It’s ha...rd to do but we should never compare what we have to what the Potter’s of the world have because we fall short. If we look at the difference we have made in the lives of those around us, then we will see how rich we truly are. The angel Clarence reminds us that Each man's life touches so many other lives, and when he isn't around, he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? Our lives have a purpose. The ripple effects of kindness are astounding. George sees first-hand what a difference his life has made to so many. Let’s remember this for ourselves this Christmas Season. Clarence says it perfectly when he says Remember, George: No man is a failure who has friends. At the end of the movie, George surrounded by friends is toasted as the richest man in town. Just a simple reminder that our life makes a bigger difference than we may ever know. Let’s not be so hard on ourselves. A life filled with friends who we truly care about and who care about us is truly a wonderful Life. We are rich and we are blessed. Have a wonderful Christmas Season!! ENCOURAGEMENT... You can spend the rest of your life trying to get rich or you can choose to live rich right now. Here’s how: 1. Be good. 2. Be generous. 3. Share. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Challenge yourself every day to do better and to be better. Remember, growth starts with a decision to move beyond your present circumstances. Anonymous Old is always 10 years older than I am. Anonymous One day it just clicksYou realize what’s important and what isn’t. You learn to care less about what other people think of you and more about what you think of yourself. You realize how far you’ve come, and you remember when you thought things were such a mess that they’d never recover. And then you smile. You smile because you are truly proud of yourself and the person you’ve fought to become. Anonymous Be happy with what you have while working hard for what you want. Hellen Keller Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are, it solely relies on what you think. Buddha Remember, it’s to a Wonderful Life!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 499 This week, we gather around the table to celebrate Thanksgiving. For some, it will be a time to rejoice, give thanks, carve the turkey and embrace family members. For others, it will be a time to reflect. Family members, friends and other loved ones who were once with us at Thanksgiving are no longer with us. Time has a way of changing things. We need to take this time of year to celebrate what we have and remember what we had. Every Thank...Continue reading

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 498 Can you imagine how much better the world would be if we all decided to do one extra act of kindness every day. We have more power than we know, and we truly can make a difference. We can make the world a better place and we can make our world a better place. The gift of giving is an amazing gift. We don’t have to give money or items to others. If we can’t give those things, let’s give a word of encouragement to someone who can use it or... give a smile to someone who has not smiled in a while. The point is that we all have it in our hearts to give and we sometimes get so busy in life that we forget the basics. If we want to have a friend, we need to be a friend. What we give will come back to us tenfold. We all remember that word of encouragement we received when we did not expect it and how that made us feel. We too can make a difference with our words and actions. Simple acts of kindness will make the world a better place. They will also make such a difference to those who need them the most. Let’s make an effort this week to do one extra act of kindness per day. Small things done consistently truly can change the world. Have a phenomenal week!! ENCOURAGEMENT... The five rules of life 1. Be kind to others, know that other people are doing the best they can with the resources they have. 2. Be kind to yourself, YOU are doing the best you can with the resources you have. 3. Never stop growing and striving for more from yourself. 4. Be willing to let go and FORGIVE, yourself and others. 5. SMILE, it’s all working out as it’s supposed to. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Some people won’t love you no matter what you do, and some people won’t stop loving you no matter what you do. Go where the love is! Author unknown No matter how educated, talented, rich or cool you think you are, how you treat people ultimately tells all. Integrity is everything. Author unknown What you want exists. Don’t settle until you get it. Author unknown Focus on the step in front of you. Not the whole staircase. Author unknown You are going into a season where you’re about to experience breakthrough after breakthrough because what you went through didn’t break you. Author unknown This week, remember that kindness can make a difference!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 497 Life is an amazing journey. As we travel on this journey, we all go through tough times. These can include personal problems, work problems and so on. We will always have something going on one way or the other. That’s called life. We can’t dwell on the negative. It’s easy to get in a funk or not be able to snap out of it. This mindset is dangerous and truly not an option. We need to be strong. There are so many people counting on us. Mista...kes happen and things go wrong. The key is what we do when times are tough. We must evaluate, regroup, take ownership and then we keep moving forward by finding the positive in any negative situation. Let’s believe in ourselves no matter where we are right now. There is always time as long as there is faith. If we couple faith with hard work and determination, we will get there. Always remember that no matter where we are in life right now, we are alive, we are loved, we are needed, and we are going to have a phenomenal day because we are the captain of the ship called SS Life. The journey is not black and white. There is a touch of grey. What a long strange trip it’s been but through it all, this is one heck of an amazing journey so let’s keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... 6 Things Mentally Strong People Do 1. They move on. They don’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. 2. They embrace change. They welcome challenges. 3. They stay happy. They don’t waste energy on things they can’t control. 4. They are kind, fair, and unafraid to speak up. 5. They are willing to take calculated risks. 6. They celebrate other people’s success. They don’t resent that success. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Begin and end each day with gratitude, and more blessings will flow into your life. Damien Thomas The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately. Author unknown Believing in yourself is the first secret of success. Author unknown Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it faith. Feed it truth. Feed it with love. Author unknown Let no one discourage your ambitious attitude. You don’t need a fan club to achieve your goals. Be your own motivation. Author unknown This week, stay strong and keep moving forward!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 496 If we change our focus, we can change our life. We all get to choose how we see things every day. We each have the ability to change our perspective, to change our lens, and to change our lives. Let’s start each day celebrating what's right with the world. We can’t start off with what's wrong, celebrate what's right. The smallest change in how we look at things will allow us to find the energy to make things right. Change is possibility. T...he difference between a good frame and a great frame is a few millimeters. Don’t focus on the negative. The world is an amazing place filled with so much beauty. When we believe it, we will see it. The power of vision is extraordinary. View the world with amazement for all it gives us. With gratitude and grace, give it all back. Let’s be our own banquet. Get lost in what's right. We never know what's going to happen. We just have to be positive and believe. Test the edges and always err on the side of positive. Be and See the positive that’s all around. Once we do that, life instantly gets better. Let’s go from trying to be the best in the world to being the best for the world. Albert Einstein said it perfectly when he said There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. This week, let’s adjust how we look at things and realize that we are blessed to be part of a miracle called life. There is so much beauty to see if we allow ourselves to truly look. Let’s change our perspective so we can change our world one happy moment at a time. Be positive and keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... The Nine Aspects of Life The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of life is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give. -William Arthur Ward GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... We’re not the same person we were a year ago, a month ago, or a week ago. We’re constantly changing. Experiences don’t stop. That’s life. Anonymous Life is too short to wait. Unknown Dream beautiful dreams and then work to make those dreams come true. Spencer Kimball Love yourself first because that’s who you’ll be spending the rest of your life with. Unknown People with goals succeed because they know where they are going. Earl Nightingale This week, let’s change our perspective to change our world!!

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MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 494 Lord Chesterfield in his famous letter to his son, wrote: Here is the way to get people to like you. Make every person like themselves a little better, and I promise that he or she will like you very much. Most of us are aware of the tremendous power of encouragement, yet we fail to make use of it. Helping others feel important and better about themselves should be a driving force in our relationships. Mahatma Gandhi inspired millions of ...people to go beyond their limitations to accomplish great things. It was said of Gandhi that he refused to see the bad in people. He inspired, even changed, human behavior by regarding them not as what they were but rather what they wished to be. People have a way of becoming what we encourage them to be. Dale Carnegie said: Tell a child, a husband or an employee that they are stupid or dumb at a certain thing, that they have no gift for it and that they are doing it all wrong, and you have destroyed almost every incentive to improve. But use the opposite technique, be liberal with encouragementlet the other person know that you have faith in them and their ability to do itand they will practice until the dawn comes in at the window in order to excel. Let’s encourage those around us and let’s have a phenomenal week!! ENCOURAGEMENT... You never really know the true impact you have on those around you. You never know how much someone needed that smile you gave them. You never know how much your kindness turned someone’s entire life around. You never know how much someone needed that long hug or deep talk. So don’t wait to be kind. Don’t wait for someone else to be kind first. Don’t wait for better circumstances of for someone to change. Just be kind, because you never know how much someone needs it. -Nikki Christa Brown GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. William A. Ward 6 months from now, you will be in a totally new space mentally, spiritually and financially. Unknown Focus on the step in front of you. Not the whole staircase. Unknown What you want exists. Don’t settle until you get it. Jay Shetty A positive attitude brings much gratitude. Think positive, be positive, speak positive. Do it every day, make it a HABIT. Unknown This week, make every person like themselves a little better!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 493 Remember the concerts we went to when we were younger. They were magical and the larger than life musicians were actually there playing live for us. We all had a favorite song Those nights brought everyone together for a few hours. We left feeling on top of the world. We still look back fondly on those days and the impact those shows and those bands had on us. Now more than ever, we need music in our lives. We need to dig deep into the vaul...t and play the music from our youth. It’s part of who we are so for this Monday, play those worries away. It’s time to think back and simply turn it up loud as we revisit the days of yesteryear. It’s amazing what music does for us and to us. Especially the music we grew up with. For this Monday, let’s put on the music that molded us and we will be humming those tunes all day. Music is good for the soul. We need it in our lives. It brings people together and spreads love. The biggest question we need to decide is what album from our youth will we spin today. Have a phenomenal Monday!! ENCOURAGEMENT... 10 Positive Benefits Of Listening To Music, According to Science: Music Increases Happiness Music Improves Performance in Running Music Decreases Stress While Increasing Overall Health Music Improves Sleep Music Reduces Depression Music Helps You Eat Less Music elevates Your Mood While Driving Music Strengthens Learning And Memory Music Increases Verbal Intelligence Music Raises IQ And Academic Performances GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Don’t be afraid to get back up to try again, to love again, to live again, and to dream again. Don’t let a hard lesson harden your heart. Unknown Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once. Unknown People come and go in your life, but the right ones always stay. Unknown Be happy with what you have. Be excited about what you want. Alan Cohen Sometimes the best thing you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe, and have faith that everything will work out for the best. Unknown This week, find your music again!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 492 We are told that it’s never too late to start over. The truth is one day it will be. We imagine how great life would be if things were different. Throughout our entire life, there will be one constant. That constant is us. If things are constantly not going in our favor, then we can’t constantly blame outside events. Let’s take a look at what we are doing. Nothing will change in life until we change. The definition of insanity is doi...ng the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Nothing comes easy in life except blaming outside factors for where we are right now. This week, let’s stop blaming and start doing. The world does not need more excuses. It needs more action. We all know what we need to do but we always think that we will get to it tomorrow. The fact is today is yesterday’s tomorrow so it’s time to take action. We need to decide what it is we want in life so badly that we are willing to sacrifice today for a better tomorrow? We can either plan now and work the plan or we can continue to do nothing and simply hope and dream. Dreams are nice but they don’t come true until we take massive action. We can change our life if we change our attitude. Let’s take positive steps every day and those steps will get us where we want to be in the future. If not our future, then our kid’s future. Let’s work hard to have the peace of mind that we did our best and we gave it our all. It starts and ends with us. Let’s do this. Keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... My to-to list for today: Count my blessings. Practice kindness. Let go of what I can’t control. Listen to my heart. Spread positivity. Just breathe. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... You are responsible for your own happiness. If you expect others to make you happy, you will always be disappointed. Unknown When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of anxiety can change the future. Unknown A satisfied life is better than a successful life. Because our success is measured by others, but our satisfaction is measured by our own soul, mind, and heart. Unknown In a world where you can be anythingbe kind. Unknown The cost of not following your heart, is spending the rest of your life wishing you had. Unknown There are two simple principles for a happy life: 1. Use things not people. 2. Love people not things. Unknown If you are still searching for that person who will change your life, look in the mirror. Unknown This week, let’s change so things change!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 491 At the end of it all, we will be blessed to count on one hand the real friends we have had in our lifetime. We will have 1000+ Facebook friends and hundreds of acquaintances along the way. The difference is those who won’t give us a ride to the airport when we ask are acquaintances and those who say yes or volunteer are our friends. We sometimes think about the people who have come into our lives. Why are they there? There will be time...s when we don't know the answer to this question. Maybe the real answer is we were put into their lives. We have the ability to be such an amazing influence on so many people around us. A kind word on a rough day makes all the difference. We have the ability to make such a difference in their lives. If we want to have a friend, then we need to be a friend. We can talk about work in these messages and striving for more, but friendship, love and peace of mind will steer our ship through everything life throws our way. Compassion and caring will move more than ourselves forward. They will move the world forward. Let’s cherish the true friends and family we have and realize that these gifts will not be with us forever. We look through old photo albums and see friends and family who are no longer here. There are timeless memories in those albums. Let’s remember that we are making those memories right now for ourselves and those around us. Someday will look back and see the amazing people that were in our lives today. Let’s make sure to spend our time with true friends and our amazing family this week and every week. Life is about living now and making memories for the future. Life will someday just be memories. This week, let’s make as many memories as we can while we can. Keep moving forward! ENCOURAGEMENT... 10 Signs you’re doing well in life: 1 You have a roof over your head. 2 You ate today. 3 You have a good heart. 4 You wish good for others. 5 You have clean water. 6 Someone cares for you. 7 You strive to be better. 8 You have clean clothes. 9 You have a dream. 10 You’re breathing. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Take a look at those two open hands of yours. They are tools with which to serve, make friends, and reach out for the best in life. Open hands open the way to achievement. Put them to work today. Wilfred A. Patterson Be a reflection of what you’d like to receive. If you want love, give love. If you want truth, be truthful. What you give out, will always return. Kristen Butler Friendship is like a bank account. You can’t continue to draw on it without making deposits. Author unknown You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Dale Carnegie In a world where you can be anything, be kind. Author unknown This week, let’s make some amazing memories!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 489 We started this decade off with amazing resolutions. The roaring 20s were back and it was our time to shine. We had goals and dreams, and this was our year. Since March, we have been sidetracked from self-improvement as we shifted our focus to self-preservation. Over this time, our bad habits became magnified. For the BER months of September-December, let’s keep things simple and choose ONE thing we want to improve on. That’s it. Just one. ...Forget that list we made in January. It’s tough enough to change a single bad habit. Imagine improving one thing this year and then one more next year. We dream of where we will be in five years. One change in our daily habits each year would change our lives forever. Positive habits become a positive lifestyle. A positive lifestyle moves us towards a positive life. Imagine how amazing it will feel to finally eliminate a bad habit. That one change may automatically result in other changes. Mountains don’t rise without earthquakes so let’s agree to shake things up. Picture life in five years after five positive lifestyle changes. Just one change per year. This week, let’s choose that one thing we want to change the most this year and then we focus all our energy on that change. Together we will grow and together we will keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... 10 REALISTIC GOALS TO CHOOSE FROM FOR THE REST OF THIS YEAR Drink more water. Use your phone less. Build my experiences. Start a budget. Reconnect with old friends. Spend more time with family. Make fewer excuses. Explore something new. Walk more. Schedule more me time. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Change is neither good nor bad, it simply is. Anonymous You are under no obligation to be the same person you were a year, month, or even 15 minutes ago. You have the right to grow. No apologies. Anonymous Every new day is a chance to change something in your life. Anonymous One reason people resist change is because they focus on what they have to give up, instead of what they have to gain. Anonymous You are far too smart to be the only thing standing in your way. Jennifer Freeman The goal is not to change who you are but to become more of who you are at your best. Sally Hogshead Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. Robin Sharma This week, choose one thing to change!!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 487 We live in a world that equates possessions with happiness. The more things we acquire, the happier we will be. Once we get that new car, we will be happy. Once we get that new house, we will be happy. Imagine how much better life will be with the latest toy. The truth is there is nothing we can buy, want, have, carry or wear that will make us happy for the long term. We have been collecting things our entire lives and here we are. Ar...e we happier now than we were before we got the latest phone? Possessions will lead to peaks and valleys. A few days of happiness and then it’s time to go back to wanting more. It’s time to shift our focus from things to people. True happiness is something that comes from within. It’s not something we can buy. Instead of getting, happiness really is about giving. Freely giving our time and energy to those we care about. Quality time with friends and family is more valuable than anything. This week, let’s focus on giving more of our time to those we love and collecting memories instead of possessions. We can always get more things, but we can’t get more time. 20 years from now, we won’t be talking about the iPhone 5 we had. We will be sharing memories of good times with great people. Let’s use the time we have to focus on creating lasting memories that will enrich our lives long after the shine fades from our latest toy. People will forget about what we had but they will never forget how we made them feel. They will remember how big our heart was or they won't remember much at all. Let’s focus our energy on making our world a better place by giving because we will receive so much more in return. Pay it forward. Our world will shine brighter for all those in it. Have a phenomenal week and keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... My to do list for today: Count my blessings Practice kindness Let go of what I can’t control Be productive yet calm Just breathe GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone. Mitch Albom Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. Unknown If you can change your mind, you can change your life. William James Let your smile change the world but don’t let the world change your smile. Unknown May your troubles be less and your blessings be more and nothing but happiness come through your door. Irish Blessing This week, cherish people, not things!!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 486 You can’t do it. You’re not good enough. It’s not what you were meant to be. How many times have we allowed people to tell us we can’t do or be? We start to believe what we constantly hear. The truth is we can do or be anything we want if we truly put our mind to it. That’s what we were told as children. As we grow older, our inner voice is threatened constantly by people telling us what we can’t be. Only we truly know what we are capable... of. We are the person who sets the limits on how far we go in life. We are the one person who needs to believe in ourselves no matter what anybody else might say. The best advice we will ever get comes from our inner voice when nobody else is around. It is telling us we can do this if we keep believing in ourselves. This week, let’s remember that we can move so far the negative voices if we continue to believe in ourselves. By doing this, those nay Sayers will be so far in the past, they won’t matter. They will always be saying what people can’t do as we are busy doing it well. Let’s surround ourselves with positive supportive people. Let’s take chances, embrace change, promote growth, and create the life we dreamed of. No matter where we are at today, there is still time if we start now. Imagine life in five years if we decide to believe in ourselves today. Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it. Keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... Five types of people you want to surround yourself with: 1. The inspired. 2. The passionate. 3. The motivated. 4. The grateful. 5. The open-minded. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... What’s your favorite place? I don’t have a favorite place. I have my favorite people. And, whenever I’m with my favorite people, it becomes my favorite place. Author unknown Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you chose your life, you didn’t settle for it. Mandy Hale Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist. Bryant McGill Surround yourself with people who have dreams, desire and ambition; they’ll help you push for, and realize your own. Author unknown As long as you are getting better, you are successful. Author unknown This week Dream it. Believe it. Achieve it!!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 485 The word for this week is POSITIVE. Let’s set the tone for the week starting right now. It’s a great day to have a great day. If we move ourselves away from negativity, then the people around us move away from negativity as well. We all move towards POSITIVE. We all want positive people and experiences in our lives. Positive in, positive out. Being positive and being successful go hand in hand. The world looks for positive voices and positi...ve choices. The world is looking for hope. The world is looking for change. The world is looking for light over darkness. We can be the light that draws people in. Let our positive attitude lead by example. We have this choice today and every day. As somebody once wrote, Be all about good vibes, amazing experiences, healthy relationships and staying focused on what matters. Now that’s a choice we all can live with. Be positive and keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. -Roy T. Bennett GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Love is not what you say. Love is what you do. Author unknown Today may you be showered with good news, positivity, and blessings. Author unknown Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Maya Angelou To change your world, you must first change your thinking. Author unknown Don’t collect things. Collect good people, truly good peopletreasure, protect and love them the best you can. Author unknown BE POSITIVE, STAY POSITIVE!!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 484 They say that life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it. When things get rough, do we take ownership and fix them, or do we simply accept the outcome and blame outside circumstances, people, and events? The blame game is a very popular game, but nobody ever really wins. We need to realize that we have more control than we think on how events in our lives turn out. Chicken Soup for the soul co-creator J...ack Canfield has a great formula which is E+R=O. Event Plus Response Equals Outcome. The basic idea is that events are just things that happen, and it's how we respond to these events that determines the resulting outcome. When most people don’t get the outcome they want, they blame the event (E) for their lack of Results (O) instead of the response (R). We blame spouses, our bosses, the weatherTwo people facing the same event can have a different outcome. It’s easier to place blame on events or outside influences than to look within. If we want a different outcome, then we have to take ownership and realize that life is all about how we respond (R) to the events in our lives. Events are just events. Once we focus on the importance of our response, then we can start to change the way we respond (R) to an event (E) to improve the outcome (O). Our Response is the deciding factor to getting a better outcome. Not external factors and circumstances. If we can remember to see an event for what it is and realize that our response will determine the outcome, then we can change our life and get the outcome we desire. Let’s make it a point to be positive, take ownership of all that’s right and wrong in our lives and keep moving forward. Things happen. How we respond to them will determine the outcome and the future. Let’s make sure that we respond in a positive, proactive way. We can create the outcome we want. Here’s to a beautiful life. Keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... Today is OUR day 1. To begin again. 2. To eat healthy. 3. To work hard. 4. To go after goals. 5. To be proud GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. Norman Vincent Peale What is important is not what you know but what you do with what you know. Unknown No path is the same, each struggle is different, but the strength it takes to achieve our goals is the same. Cece The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s greener where you water it. Unknown In life, you either have the results you want, or you have reasons to explain why you don’t have them. If you have the results, you don’t need the reasons. Robert White This week, focus on the Response!!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 481 We are going to write so many chapters in our lives. Some will be chapters on romance, amazing times and success. Other chapters will include heartache, failure and uncertainty. No matter where we are right now in our great novel called life, we are the author and we have a say in when we close one chapter and start a new one. These times of uncertainty right now have everyone scared. Just know that this chapter too will pass. So many of us... never start a new chapter because we are so afraid of experiencing failure or rejection again. The truth is we all fear the downside of failure. Let’s shift our focus to the upside of taking a chance. When we take a chance, we win some and we lose some. We lose 100% of the time when we are too scared to try. No matter what happens after we put ourselves out there, we have already won because we overcame our fear of failure and made the decision to try. That’s an amazing gift we gave ourselves. We have changed for the better. A new chapter has been written. This week as we think about taking a chance, let’s see the upside of success instead of the downside of failure. Just do it and no matter what ultimately happens, we have already won because we chose to give it a shot again. Always keep positive and keep moving forward!! ENCOURAGEMENT... Things to do the rest of the year: Believe that anything is possible. Start each day with goals. Eat more real food. Buy good books and make time to read them. Drink water. Exercise daily even when it sounds like a terrible idea. Shop for quality, not quantity. Purge the unnecessary and decrease clutter. Hug the ones I love. Find the best in others. Show others the best in me. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Your I Can is more important than your IQ. Robin Sharma Only you can change your life. No one can do it for you. Unknown Being positive does not mean the negative things in life do not exist. Being positive simply means overcoming the negativity you meet on your journey. Unknown People who uplift you are the best kind of people. You don’t simply keep them. You have to treasure them. Dodinksy Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice! Zig Ziglar This weekstart a new chapter!!

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 480 As we start this Monday off, let’s just take a deep breath and be thankful that we are here in this moment. It’s nice to have goals and make plans but the fact is, we don’t need to be racing to change the world. Focusing too much on the future takes away from the joy of right now. Happiness is a choice. It’s a state of mind. Let’s just plan on being happy today. Let’s just be here in the present and make the absolute best out of this day an...d every day. We just need to step back and tell ourselves that life is pretty awesome with the people and things we have in our lives right now. Let’s focus on appreciating what we have. We have our family, we have our friends, we have our health and we have this moment right now today so let’s just inhale and then exhale. Look around and see all the miracles that are right in front of us. We got this!! ENCOURAGEMENT... Things to do today: 1. Make someone smile. 2. Make someone laugh. 3. Make someone cry. (out of too much laughter.) 4. Tell someone I love you 5. Find a flower, let it know how beautiful it is. 6. Look a friend in the eye and tell him/her Thank you for being a part of my life. 7. Think of something to write for #7 8. Be awesome. GREAT WORDS TO LIVE BY... Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design into the present. Unknown In a world where you can be anything, be kind! Unknown People don’t always need advice. Sometimes all they really need is a hand to hold, an ear to listen, and a heart to understand them. Unknown Close each day with a smile and paint the sky with your dreams. Dodinsky The people whose first instinct is to smile when you make eye contact with them are some of Earth’s greatest treasure. Unknown This weekjust enjoy one day at a time!! See more

MONDAY’S CUP OF MOTIVATION: VOL 479 Believe it or not, 2020 is halfway over. The same can be said for many of us in our lives. We are past the halfway mark. It truly is going fast. Let’s ask ourselves a question: Are we living the life we want or the life someone else wants us to live? We know deep down what the answer to this question is. It is never too late to live the life we dreamed about. Dreams do come true but in order for dreams to become reality, we need to act now....Continue reading