Happy New Year - Week of December 30, 2018

Every once in a while, get off the merry-go-round and ask yourself these questions:

·          What are we doing?

·          What should we be doing?

·          What should we be doing next?

·          What should we not be doing?

                                    ~ Communication Briefings “From 36,000 feet”

Merry Christmas - Week of December 23, 2018

“And all the bells on earth shall ring…

Then let us all rejoice…

On Christmas Day in the morning”

~ Lyrics from ‘I Saw Three Ships (Come Sailing In)’

Thought of the Week: December 16, 2018

“I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story,
singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit,
we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.”

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Thought of the Week: December 9, 2018

“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.”

~ Orison Swett Marden

Thought of the Week: December 2, 2018

“Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us – a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.”

~David Cameron

Thought of the Week: November 25, 2018

“In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.”

~Peter McWilliams

Thought of the Week: November 18, 2018

“The human contribution is the essential ingredient.
It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.”

~ Ethel Percy Andrus

Thought of the Week - November 11, 2018

“What is the test of human character? It is probably this: that man will know how to be patient in the midst of hard circumstance, and can continue to be personally effective while living through whatever discouragements beset him and his companions.”

~ Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall (Military historian)

Thought of the Week: November 4, 2018

"Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers." 

~ Pat Riley

Thought of the Week: October 28, 2018

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Thought of the Week: October 21, 2018

“Anytime there is change, it represents opportunity for anyone who is listening”

                                ~ Tom McLeod

Thought of the Week: October 14, 2018

“Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.”

~ Dale Carnegie

Thought of the Week: October 7, 2018

“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.” 

~ Aldous Huxley

Thought of the Week: September 30, 2018

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring”

~ Leo Buscaglia

Thought of the Week: September 23, 2018

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”

~ Arthur Ashe

Thought of the Week: September 16, 2018

“It is more difficult to move an object that is completely at rest than it is to guide one that is already in motion.” 

~ Gene Griessman

Thought of the Week: September 9, 2018

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

Thought of the Week: September 2, 2018

“Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.”

~ Voltaire

Thought of the Week: August 26, 2018

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”

~ Abraham Lincoln

Thought of the Week: August 19, 2018

“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”

~ Virginia Burden

Thought of the Week: August 12, 2018

“Leadership is not magnetic personality — that can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people’ — that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

~Peter F. Drucker

Thought of the Week: August 5, 2018

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thought of the Week: July 29, 2018

“A culture of accountability makes a good organization great and a great organization unstoppable.”  ~Henry J. Evans

Thought of the Week: July 22, 2018

“Life has two rules: Number one, never quit; Number two, always remember rule number one.”

~ Duke Ellington (Musician and composer)

Thought of the Week: July 15, 2018

"The only way to enjoy anything in this life, is to earn it first."
    

~ Ginger Rogers

Thought of the Week: July 8, 2018

“It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.”

                                              ~ John Wooden

Thought of the Week: July 1, 2018

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.”

~ Mark Twain

Thought of the Week: June 24, 2018

“Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.”

~ Thomas Carlyle

Thought of the Week: June 17, 2018

“I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you’re with them.”

~ Macon Leary

Thought of the Week: June 10, 2018

“Patriotism consists not in waving the flag, but in striving that our country shall be righteous as well as strong.”

~ James Bryce

Thought of the Week: June 3, 2018

“Golden Rule principles are just as necessary for operating a business profitably as are trucks, typewriters, or twine.”

~ James Cash (J.C.) Penney

Thought of the Week: May 27, 2018

“If you wouldn’t write it and sign it, don’t say it.”

~Earl Wilson

Thought of the Week: May 20, 2018

“Don’t count the things you do, do the things that count.”

~ Zig Ziglar

Thought of the Week: May 13, 2018

“A culture is strong when people work with each other for each other.  A culture is weak when people work against each other for themselves.”

                                                ~ Simon Sinek

Thought of the Week: May 7, 2018

“Just because things are not going perfectly does not mean they are not going well.” 

~ Al Groh

Thought of the Week: April 29, 2017

“There are two ways of exerting one's strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”

~ Booker T. Washington

Thought of the Week: April 22, 2018

"Keep rules to a minimum and enforce the ones you have."

~ Vince Dooley (College football coach)

Thought of the Week: April 15, 2018

"We in America do not have government by the majority - we have government by the majority who participate...All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

~ Thomas Jefferson

Thought of the Week: April 8, 2018

“Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.”

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life)

Thought of the Week: April 1, 2018

“Those who devote their lives to a cause greater than themselves always find a larger, fuller life than the one they remembered.”

~ Wilbert E. Scheer

Thought of the Week: March 25, 2018

“If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today, you would have been two weeks better at it.”

~ John Mayer

Thought of the Week: March 18, 2018

“Your life is not something you'll do “later."”

~ Dr Henry Cloud

Thought of the Week: March 11, 2018

“People must be big enough to admit their mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

~ John Maxwell

Thought of the Week: March 4, 2018

“The first step in exceeding your customer's expectations is to know those expectations.” 

~ Roy H. Williams

Thought of the Week: February 25, 2018

“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.”

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Thought of the Week: February 18, 2018

“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver five minutes longer.”

~ Ronald Reagan (40th U.S. President)

Thought of the Week: February 11, 2018

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.”

~Abraham Lincoln

Thought of the Week: February 4, 2018

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thought of the Week: January 28, 2018

“Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.”

                                ~ H Jackson Brown

Thought of the Week: January 21, 2018

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand. Most people listen with the intent to reply." 

 - Stephen Covey

Thought of the Week: January 14, 2018

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” 

                                                ~ Aristotle

Thought of the Week: January 7, 2018

“I’m not looking for blessings to come into my life.  I’m looking to be a blessing in someone’s life.”

                                                 ~ Kevin Elko

Happy New Year: January 1, 2018

Every once in a while, get off the merry-go-round and ask yourself these questions:

·   What are we doing?

·   What should we be doing?

·   What should we be doing next?

·   What should we not be doing?

~ Communication Briefings (Adapted from 'From 36,000 feet')