Motivational Minute (12_80)

Quote of the day:

“You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.” -- Kathy Seligman

Consider:

If you don’t try new things, you’ll never know what else you might be good at. What you may think you’re not suited for may turn out to be something you actually enjoy and are gifted in. You never know until you try.

Look at babies, they are always trying new things—learning to eat, to talk, to walk, to count, etc. You were made to explore, to learn and discover. Why stop once you reach adulthood?

People might tell you that something can’t be done, but don’t let anyone else’s thinking, much less your own mindsets, hinder you from accomplishing what you have in your heart to achieve. Don’t accept defeat before you even try. Give yourself a chance. Believe that anything is possible. Reaching any worthy goal will be hard work, but if you determine to see it through, even those things which might seem impossible today will become reality in your life.

What new things could you try that you have been hesitant to try?

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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Motivational Minute (12_79)

Quote of the day:

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” -- John Wooden

Consider:

When you choose to learn, you activate an “on switch” in you. That creates a vacuum which will be filled! When you're willing to learn new things, it makes you more useful and versatile.

When you adopt an open, flexible, hungry-for-more attitude, you become like a multi-purpose tool. You become like a technological tool that spans generations because its features and functions keep getting upgraded. A quality tool like that will always be prized.

Have you stopped learning or you endeavoring to be the “quality tool” that will always be useful and versatile?

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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Motivational Minute (12_78)

Quote of the day:

“A good leader is one who knows the way, shows the way, and goes the way.” — John C. Maxwell

Consider:

How true. It is so much easier to follow someone’s example than to try to muddle through on our own.

It was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who wrote the well-known verse:

            Lives of great men all remind us

            We can make our lives sublime,

            And, departing, leave behind us

            Footprints on the sands of time.

But do you remember the following lines which make the previous verse even more meaningful?

            Footprints, that perhaps another,

            Sailing o'er life's solemn main,

            A forlorn and ship-wrecked brother,

            Seeing, shall take heart again.

These words remind us that if we can see that someone else has gone the way before us, we are encouraged to do the same.

There is a two-fold lesson here. Be the example that others can follow, and if others can reach their goals so can you.

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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Motivational Minute (12_77)

Quote of the day:

"It takes a rare type of ability to play the second fiddle with enthusiasm." – Sir Malcolm Sargent

Consider:

In today’s world with the emphasis on being the best, it is hard to remember that a lot of the credit to how successful we are goes to how good our support team is. Like the story behind the quote illustrates.

Which of the instruments in the orchestra is the most difficult to play?

If you ask any knowledgeable musical friends you're sure to start an argument, with some voting for the harp, other voting for the oboe or French horn. But the late Sir Malcolm Sargent had quite a different answer. In his dressing room before the last night of the Proms one year he was asked that same question. Fingering the elegant carnation in his buttonhole, he pondered.

"Without doubt, it is the second violin. I can find any number of violinists who can perform the job of being lead or first violin admirably." And his bright eyes twinkled. "But it takes a rare type of ability to play the second fiddle with enthusiasm."

Sir Malcolm's words held a deeper meaning, of course.

The World couldn't exist without its second fiddles. Think of the people who never hit the headlines but cheerfully suppress their own ambitions to help a husband or support a family. While the stars receive the flowers and the plaudits, the second fiddles soldier on in the background, doing a good job and often getting very little thanks for it.

Think about who are the second fiddles in your life and give them the due respect and appreciation they deserve.

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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Motivational Minute (12_76)

Quote of the day:

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains." -- Pierre Auguste Renoir

Consider:

Here is the story behind the quote.

The great French artist Renoir, in his later years, suffered severely from arthritis, which affected his hands so badly that it was only with the greatest difficulty that he could hold a brush. He struggled on bravely with his painting in spite of the pain.

A friend once asked him why he continued to paint when the physical agony was so great. Renoir replied, "The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

How true that is. Surely there is an attitude here which can be applied to many difficult situations in our own lives.

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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Motivational Minute (12_75)

Quote of the day:

“Be happy. Talk happiness. Happiness calls out responsive gladness in others. There is enough sadness in the world without yours.” -- Helen Keller

Consider:

You can’t make the sun come out on a rainy day, but you can change the mood around you.

Most people feel happier and are more upbeat on a warm, sunny day than on a stormy one. You can warm and encourage the people around you by sunny “rays” or good vibes you send their way. But if you’re carrying around a cloud of problems and woes, you’re likely to create a “pressure system” that will dump rain and dampen and darken the day for everyone you come in contact with.

So carry a warm, sunny atmosphere with you wherever you go. Let the sunlight of your happy countenance shine on others and cheer them up.

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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Motivational Minute (12_74)

Quote of the day:

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond our wildest dreams. — Sidney Madwed

Consider:

There are many examples in history of people who did grand things, became someone great, discovered something unknown, invented something ingenious, wrote something creative, sang something beautiful, inspired others, and helped to make the world a better place through their efforts, all because someone had  faith in them.

Many of these great men and women were thought to have had little or no potential to begin with. There have been cases of great teachers, scientists, and inventors who were thought to be below average intellectually as children. Some great athletes have been told that they were too sick, handicapped, or weak to qualify for even the first level of competition. There have been cases of great writers and speakers who were hardly articulate when they first started their career. World-famous dancers, singers, and actors can remember being turned down at their first auditions due to "not having enough talent."

One such story is the famous Italian tenor opera singer, Enrique Caruso.

Many years ago a boy of ten was working in a factory in Naples. He longed to be a singer, but his first teacher discouraged him. "You can't sing," he said. "You haven't any voice at all. It sounds like the wind in the shutters."

But his mother, a poor peasant woman, put her arms about him and praised him and told him she knew he could sing, she could already see an improvement, and she went barefoot in order to save money to pay for his music lessons. That peasant mother's praise and encouragement changed the boy's life. His name was Enrico Caruso, and he became the greatest and most famous opera singer of his age.

Give the gift of encouragement whenever you can, you just may be an instrument to change someone’s life for the better.

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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Motivational Minute (12_73)

Quote of the day:

“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.” -- Charles M Schwab

Consider:

There are many examples in history of people who did amazing things, in great part due to the faith that someone had in them. That strength of faith and the belief that others had in them helped many of these notable people to overcome what seemed to be impossible odds, opposition, danger, or difficulty. They might have ended up unheard of by the rest of the world if they hadn't been inspired to achieve, and as a result of that, pressed on to become more than they were.

There are many stories of those who failed and made countless mistakes, who showed promise and potential, but were disappointed over and over again—until finally, through the strength to persevere that was ignited in part by those who believed in them, they succeeded.

One such story is of Robert Fulton’s mother.

Robert was a poor pupil at school and the teacher complained to his mother. Whereupon Mrs. Fulton replied proudly: "My boy's head, sir, is so full of original notions that there is no vacant chamber in which to store the contents of your musty books."

"I was only ten years old at that time," said Fulton, "and my mother seemed to be the only human being who understood my natural bent for mechanics. She developed my early talent for drawing, and encouraged me in my visits to the machine-shops of the town."

Robert Fulton was widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat as well as the first working submarine.

What are you doing to encourage others to succeed?

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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Motivational Minute (12_72)

Quote of the day:

“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.” -- Annie Lennox

Consider:

Isn’t this a great piece of advice? It reminds me of the old Glen Campbell song adapted from Edgar Guest’s poem “A Creed”:

      Let me be a little kinder.

      Let me be a little blinder

      To the faults of those about me;

      Let me praise a little more.

      Let me be when I am weary

      Just a little bit more cheery,

      Let me serve a little better

      Those that I am striving for.

      Let me be a little braver

      When temptation bids me waver;

      Let me strive a little harder

      To be all that I should be.

     

      Let me be a little sweeter,

      Make my life a bit completer;

      Keep me faithful to my duty

      Every minute of the day.

     

      Let me be a little meeker,

      With the brother that is weaker,

      Let me think more of my neighbor

      And a little less of me.

If you have been wondering how you can change the world, why not try a little kindness.

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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Motivational Minute (12_71)

Quote of the day:

“Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth. Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.” — Bill Bradley

Consider:

Everyone is in leadership in someway or the other as we all have influence.

Give others responsibility. If you're in a position of authority, try to give others responsibility in the areas in which they are notably strong, even if it's just in one small thing. Let them feel trusted and needed and appreciated for their obvious strengths, and it will help them to develop other strengths.

As you unlock other’s potential you will be strengthened and increase your own leadership potential. It’s a win-win situation.

Wishing you all the best,

Coach Dana

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